Got a lot of pictures today, and one question. Best get started.
I started with this set up; determining best use of metal vs plastic corners - really, probably nylon; they're fairly strong even as old as they are. I could stop and find some metal and make some custom corners, and that's always a future option, but if I start out with metal in the larger and more oft used doors, and plastic in the remaining smaller and little used doors, that may well do it.
Well - I'll have to collect all the corners I have - and take inventory. Dis-assembly will make those extra doors easier to store. And it's a great repository of quality original materials. Yes!
And even while taking apart doors from the 1966 parts camper (that contained plastic corner doors), I came across one door that had metal corners. Lil' Queeny is 1968, with all metal corner doors. Not enough info yet for a pattern by year.
Equally interesting was discovering the door knob assembly for the parts camper "Bathroom" option. I hadn't ever looked close at it until now. It was a fairly plush camper in it's day I think, before it had spent so much time in a cow pasture for the last several years of its life. It was a sad day when we had to take it to the landfill and have it put down, but all good things.... they say.
But I digress. I was showing you this bathroom door. I'll probably be using a large part of it to make Lil' Queeny's bathroom door.
And more hardware, but check out this doorknob! This is the question. How does it come off? I can find NO set-screws on the knobs. The catch slides on a spring. But manipulating it, or other moving parts, does not seem to reveal any release mechanisms. Yeah! How does this come off? I'm afraid it's too cool NOT to use.
So how does that come off? I'm baffled.
But I got a lot of high quality original building materials out of these extra doors. And I can use the parts to make custom sized doors, which I will be doing on as many as five, mostly new, locations found throughout the camper for specific storage locations and ideas.
This tender paneling area of the overhead bunk seems first in line to make any claims on original building materials, wouldn't you say?
So I obtained enough metal corners to make one more door, plus enough plastic for a margin of comfort.
Once out, the plastic is pretty strong, but they break easy on door dis-assembly. For that reason, on my small doors and drawer fronts that are receiving plastic corners, those are, or will be, glued as well. So I glued up and assembled the following small doors, then ran a mineral spirits rag over them to remove excess glue, of which there was some - in the form of fingerprints, doh! I'm certainly glad I chose AGAINST glue on most of the doors. That glue was kind of a pain!
See that tiny one? That's the one I made for the interior access to the grey-water dump-valve handle. I just had to set the knob on it for a photo shoot. :)
Then I set to work installing a door. 22 to go.
All original parts. Even the screws.
