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...
Forum Discussion
Dodgeavion wrote:
Since I'm going to be replacing my floor and wings I'd like to ask the collective wisdom on best method?
Redo it like original? (layered construction)
Do it in solid wood? (seems heavy)
Something else?
Anyway, for those that have done it would you do recommend a different method and those that haven't any good thoughts?
Ken
Well Ken, I have not begun active work on my rebuild but have similar repair areas as you described and also debated what to use. My approach will be to replace the 3/8"ply/3/4"foam/3/8"ply with an aluminum honeycomb panel--1 1/2"thick w/ .032 aluminum face panels and aluminum honeycomb core bonded to the face panels; face panels are powdercoated a white color and were originally intended for pre-fab clean room walls. A google search for "aluminum honeycomb panel" should bring up several and I was able to obtain mine from a company called WebbCore which was good as they are relatively close to my location but there are others. Some of the exterior aluminum panels are corroded enough that i can see small holes thru the sheet-- underside of the bunk specifically but underside of wings also will need some areas repaired-- and will use the aluminum face panel as the exterior covering too. While I haven't actually done it, I am confident I have all the aspects puzzled thru and don't see any problems but as to that, time will tell. Won't get to actual work 'til later this spring/ early summer.
