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Without going into too much painful detail, we had a mishap several week-ends ago. While working with sand bag crews on the Mississippi River, the truck and camper fell into the flood waters as a road...
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Rastaman, This is how I redid my bunk area..........
I built a frame out of 1x4 fir..
The frame allows me to insulate and it is lighter than 2 shts. of 3/4 ply laminated together.
Lap joints were used for the frame...
Everything was dry fitted and checked before gluing & fasteners.
The frame was glued up as 2 separate pieces with 3/8 ply on the top only.
Each half was then slid into place and glued & clamped.
I let the glue cure overnight (elmers or titebond waterproof glue) then slid the lower 3/8 shts. into place and braced the bottom so I could crawl up top.
At this point it was just the matter of installing the insulation and the center top sht. of 3/8 and a couple of coats of West Systems epoxy.
All the plywood was glued down with West Systems and all edges were treated before installing with the same.
You can duplicate this using just plywood if you like.
Install the bottom pieces first with the face grain running left to right, then the left and right radius pieces up top with face grain north and south, then finally the center piece again with the face grain north and south.
Cut all the pieces 1st. and lay them together and double check everything before treating them.
I hope this helps.
Where are you ? Tampa ?
Dennis
I built a frame out of 1x4 fir..
The frame allows me to insulate and it is lighter than 2 shts. of 3/4 ply laminated together.
Lap joints were used for the frame...
Everything was dry fitted and checked before gluing & fasteners.
The frame was glued up as 2 separate pieces with 3/8 ply on the top only.
Each half was then slid into place and glued & clamped.
I let the glue cure overnight (elmers or titebond waterproof glue) then slid the lower 3/8 shts. into place and braced the bottom so I could crawl up top.
At this point it was just the matter of installing the insulation and the center top sht. of 3/8 and a couple of coats of West Systems epoxy.
All the plywood was glued down with West Systems and all edges were treated before installing with the same.
You can duplicate this using just plywood if you like.
Install the bottom pieces first with the face grain running left to right, then the left and right radius pieces up top with face grain north and south, then finally the center piece again with the face grain north and south.
Cut all the pieces 1st. and lay them together and double check everything before treating them.
I hope this helps.
Where are you ? Tampa ?
Dennis
