2006 Hallmark Ute rotted wood repair
I'm going to start off my first post by saying I've been perusing this site for sometime, and have learned a lot...espcially lubing Happy Jacks. My wife and I have had this Hallmark Ute for a year....
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I now realize this camper is very different from my bargain basement Palomino.
:B The complexity is truly mind-boggling on these (and similar) campers! Now, they are available in not 1 but 3 frame/structure types.
Kind of like the way an old Piper tube-and-rag aircraft fuselage is constructed compared with a high end jet, with carbon-fiber or graphite epoxy composite fuselage.
The scariest part of ripping into these high-end pop-ups, is planning the disassemble and lifting (by Jerry-rigged crane?) of the roof/Weblon/intact softwall from the camper shell ! How do you re-seat the Weblon/roof assembly to the camper shell again *absolutely precisely tensioned* AND aligned with the re-built shell, with the attached pre-tensioned lifting apparatus, all the while re-fastening the Weblon bottom pleat to the camper shell's top rim ??? I think in manufacturing, the Weblon softwall is longer than is required, THEN it is stretched and trim-clamped to the camper shell's top rim, and the excess Weblon sticking out from under the reim is then trimmed off with a razor (this is the only way I can reconcile the assembly in my mind). To me, you'll need some MAJOR input from the manufacturer before this stage, because you just can't get it wrong.
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