Planning rebuild
It has been suggested that if I am going to go to the extent of what needs to be done regarding the nose rot and slide side repair plus the wings both sides on the 1161, the whole camper should have t...
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Chet, Well said and appreciated. It was a failure of mine to see the problem occuring sooner where I maybe could have saved it sooner. Now that addresses the rot issue forward. As for the slide sill that has to be a failure in struture and design, rot may be part of that. That will not be deterimined until the skin comes off...IF I do go ahead with this project there will be postings...you can count on it!!!!
Jumbo, point taken, over the years it didn't appear to be a problem, but alas it happens.
There is one thing I can say...this camper has had some good and great use loads of miles racked up, loads of nights boondocking...almost to the point of saying does this camper really owe me anything from the use...Recall with me for a moment 2 trips to FL, a nine week stint in CO over some tough mountain roads, up into the mining hills above Leadville. And I have had said to me isn't it great having 4x4 to get up here...my response is no it is just a dually 2 by....the jaw drops most of the time. So you can see it has not been treated as a princess on the Eisenhower Highways and parked in a full hook each night on a level concrete pad...she gets used. This is just some of the trips. Plus for 8 years she was used as my living quaters at Waterways Cruises each summer from May to Sept, 6 days a week, she has served me well! Plus down to LA each THX GvG to visit Dad another 2400 miles on some rough I-5 surfaces thht rattle your jaw. I am not in a complaint mode, but a realization mode...what should I do? Plus I like hearing the comments posted here and getting the ideas.
Another way to look at it, if I spent 25K fixing her (hope not) would it be better than new? CERTAINLY and the way I want it! Will she last another 10 years...YEP especially the way I am going to do it.
My tool kit is extensive: 900 sqft off an alley with unisaw (30 years old) 3hp, planer, bandsaw (30 years old), Atlas drill press (30), router table, kreg system, air filter sytem, tool vacuum system, compressor, on and on...you get the point...may have to invest in a stapler...but not sure at this point...even have a HPLV system, skilled furniture and cabinet maker...I think my tools and I can handle it.
The more research I do on what I want to achieve the camper keeps coming up as the way to do it...powerful proven diesel truck, pulling a 20' boat, HUMMM camper in between...seems the way it should be.
Hope all had a great 4TH...I did...I didn't have to work!!!!! Capt. PJ
Jumbo, point taken, over the years it didn't appear to be a problem, but alas it happens.
There is one thing I can say...this camper has had some good and great use loads of miles racked up, loads of nights boondocking...almost to the point of saying does this camper really owe me anything from the use...Recall with me for a moment 2 trips to FL, a nine week stint in CO over some tough mountain roads, up into the mining hills above Leadville. And I have had said to me isn't it great having 4x4 to get up here...my response is no it is just a dually 2 by....the jaw drops most of the time. So you can see it has not been treated as a princess on the Eisenhower Highways and parked in a full hook each night on a level concrete pad...she gets used. This is just some of the trips. Plus for 8 years she was used as my living quaters at Waterways Cruises each summer from May to Sept, 6 days a week, she has served me well! Plus down to LA each THX GvG to visit Dad another 2400 miles on some rough I-5 surfaces thht rattle your jaw. I am not in a complaint mode, but a realization mode...what should I do? Plus I like hearing the comments posted here and getting the ideas.
Another way to look at it, if I spent 25K fixing her (hope not) would it be better than new? CERTAINLY and the way I want it! Will she last another 10 years...YEP especially the way I am going to do it.
My tool kit is extensive: 900 sqft off an alley with unisaw (30 years old) 3hp, planer, bandsaw (30 years old), Atlas drill press (30), router table, kreg system, air filter sytem, tool vacuum system, compressor, on and on...you get the point...may have to invest in a stapler...but not sure at this point...even have a HPLV system, skilled furniture and cabinet maker...I think my tools and I can handle it.
The more research I do on what I want to achieve the camper keeps coming up as the way to do it...powerful proven diesel truck, pulling a 20' boat, HUMMM camper in between...seems the way it should be.
Hope all had a great 4TH...I did...I didn't have to work!!!!! Capt. PJ
