Avion truck campers - Hundreds of photos
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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Silver, I'm not sure I'd wish the Argo approach on anybody unless he had demonstrated a reckless and whimsical determination in other parts of his life...
Fasterners are certainly the most common source of water intrusion. I don't think I'd go so far as to epoxy core the holes, but caulking each hole with Trempro or the like seems a reasonable precaution. I still think full epoxy coating is the deal, but an oil-based paint might suffice. Or perhaps one of the newer water-based epoxy paints. They are certainly more pleasant to use than oil-based.
Epoxying the edges is a good precaution in any case.
I would observe that because the factory built a C10 or C11 in a particular way doesn't mean that it was the best way. Economics dictated a lot of their material and construction decisions. If I were doing a wood replacement rather than the "full Argo", I'd use a synthetic panel of plastic or fiberglass instead of wood.
Ah, the clarity of hindsight. If we had known what we were getting ourselves into when we first laid eyes upon our Avions...
Onward!
Fasterners are certainly the most common source of water intrusion. I don't think I'd go so far as to epoxy core the holes, but caulking each hole with Trempro or the like seems a reasonable precaution. I still think full epoxy coating is the deal, but an oil-based paint might suffice. Or perhaps one of the newer water-based epoxy paints. They are certainly more pleasant to use than oil-based.
Epoxying the edges is a good precaution in any case.
I would observe that because the factory built a C10 or C11 in a particular way doesn't mean that it was the best way. Economics dictated a lot of their material and construction decisions. If I were doing a wood replacement rather than the "full Argo", I'd use a synthetic panel of plastic or fiberglass instead of wood.
Ah, the clarity of hindsight. If we had known what we were getting ourselves into when we first laid eyes upon our Avions...
Onward!
