Today: Cab-over bunk wall to floor edge molding.
Within a few days of the last post in this thread, I had put up the aluminum trim molding along the cab-over bunk wall to floor edge. That was last May - about five months ago. I never reported on it.
By that time we had bought Tow-Mater (reported over in the Vintage Trailers forum) and had kind of shifted gears into that outside work, and of using what butyl tape I had on hand for THAT project.
Since then, I've gained lots of experience with butyl. Installing it correctly still eludes me, but I've got some techniques which seem satisfactory. Like always, I don't know what I'm doing. So I just do what feels right in the moment. ;)
However, I'm now (October) just about done with the exterior molding install on Lil' Queeny. All I have left is that "oops area" at the front, bottom edge of the camper box, and two sticks of rain-gutter on either side of the cab-over bunk walls.
Then I think all that's left on the exterior are tail lights, and clearance lights. The clearance lights will still require some aluminum "bezel" creations, for those siding openings discussed way back ago.
So let's get into what has been done to date on this molding.
I'm starting out slow today, the edge molding along the cab-over bunk wall to floor. These had been pre-formed using a vice holding the plywood template.
I folded over a single layer of tape on the narrow edge, and laid down two runs on the wide.
Overlapping the metal edge slightly.
Then it was using the rubber mallet (large and quite the "whacks") to set the molding into the camper and the tape bed, hitting and forming and adding screws one or two at a time as I went. Molding ends were also cut, angled, filed, etc. to meet up as close as possible.
Here's the result, and the other side was completed too, but I guess I didn't get pictures.
It was about this time that I got to work on Tow-Mater, and Queeny hibernated for the summer. I did lots of butyl tape replacement on Tow-Mater, and I kind of tried differing butyl application methods and differing techniques, to where just yesterday, my installation of rain-gutter on Lil' Queeny used quite a different method than what I have done to this point.
Tomorrow I'll start showing the arch molding installs.
