In the above photo you can see where the door exterior has received some hits in its bottom half. Like with the dents in the roof and wall metal, I kind of wanted to see about getting those out.
Also, I wanted to see the inside of the door. How was it made and what is its condition?
So up on the bench it goes.
The dead-bolt prep.
Styrofoam core.
Now with the aluminum banding and framework removed.
Bit of a split in this area. Not too bad. The wood looks pretty good.
Top of the door.
Bottom. Dirty, but not rotted.
Okay let's look closer at the door knob region.
Okay, now I see why the metal is collapsed a little here.
And the mounting location for the door hold-open. This had been kind of a mess on both doors, like it had always been troublesome to POs. Lil' Queeny had some large washers with the carriage bolt heads. There's surface metal distortion. I don't think the door was built to receive the item right there. It was an add-on by Travel Queen to a door obtained from the door manufacturer. I might give this area a little special attention. During general use, there are great forces applied to places like this and the knob. You know how we owners are.
The metal on both surfaces was contact cemented to the door core, which was made up of the wooden framing, and the styrofoam board. Let's get it apart so I can at least get to the back side of the door dents, which were found on both interior and exterior surfaces, albeit a relative minimal amount, considering how doors get used and how old this little camper is.
And that gives us this...
I have to admit, I found the builder's choice of small wood blocks for the dead bolt prep to be humorous, while at the same time being infuriating. That's quite a talent!
I think we can make some improvements here.
