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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I was going to leave the bunk lamp roughly where it was as I dont usually read in bed. Thanks for the heads up though, I'm not sure how I would handle being 200 rivets deep and discovering a change was necessary.
The aluminum sheet used was a 36"x 36" x .019". It was in stock at the 'local' home depot, 5 1/2 sheets to do what is in the pictures. On the visible face, the upper sheet just overlaps the one below. I did try a crimping tool on the tops of the first few petals but it didn't make much difference.
The petals I made all have a straight bottom edge, the upper edge is convex. The bottom edge is visible and a straight cut is the only one I can do cleanly. I found the final fitment to be extremely forgiving with even poorly cut pieces doing the job with room to spare. There is probably lack of symmetry as a result.
I've been thinking that I might have to remove a few(or all) of those shim strips on each rib behind the long upper curved interior panels. I read that they are there to prevent a crease where the long panel overlaps the much thicker plastic end caps. Thickness of plastic cap - thickness of new cap(.038) = x to be removed from shim stacks. Or am I just taking this too far?
The aluminum sheet used was a 36"x 36" x .019". It was in stock at the 'local' home depot, 5 1/2 sheets to do what is in the pictures. On the visible face, the upper sheet just overlaps the one below. I did try a crimping tool on the tops of the first few petals but it didn't make much difference.
The petals I made all have a straight bottom edge, the upper edge is convex. The bottom edge is visible and a straight cut is the only one I can do cleanly. I found the final fitment to be extremely forgiving with even poorly cut pieces doing the job with room to spare. There is probably lack of symmetry as a result.
I've been thinking that I might have to remove a few(or all) of those shim strips on each rib behind the long upper curved interior panels. I read that they are there to prevent a crease where the long panel overlaps the much thicker plastic end caps. Thickness of plastic cap - thickness of new cap(.038) = x to be removed from shim stacks. Or am I just taking this too far?
