Anyone interested in 83 Pace Arrow Tear down and Rebuild?

[fulltimin]

Started to look into some water damage in the kitchen of our 83 Pace Arrow. The more I looked, the more I found. I have some pics of the damage so far. Anyone interested in following a rebuild thread?

[cruising_spud]

Don't be so hasty to be critical. This forum has been so slow lately that fulltimin has been close to one of the top five posts for weeks.

[Johnny_G1]

I have to agree with most poster's, it has been pretty boring for quite awhile, how bout's we get the show on the road????

[navegator]

I think most of his time is just plain BS.







Baybe Sitting!

navegator

[LouLawrence]

DewLess wrote:
Well not complaining a big bunch, but I guess a bit… Can you kinda pickup the pace a bit, I am on the down side of like would to see the exterior started

You can think it, you just can't say it. OK, it's been 2 month and like 15 pages since he did anything more than apply a bit of fiberglass to a piece of wood so we are pretty much on track.

[ro_sie]

OMG! fulltimim. looks like some of your fan base is getting impatient. LOL

[DewLess]

Well not complaining a big bunch, but I guess a bit… Can you kinda pickup the pace a bit, I am on the down side of like would to see the exterior started

[fulltimin]

I wanted to post this a couple of days ago, but it just didn't happen.

I did get to add 3 layers of Epoxy over fiberglass cloth to make the joint much more stable.

This is for the drivers side skirting.

One step closer to getting that installed. Wahoo!

[fulltimin]

Next step was to fill in the gap area with some extra epoxy. I mixed up a very small batch and proceeded to fill it in.

I left the epoxy a little bit proud.

For the younger crowd, which probably haven't heard that term before ... It means to leave the epoxy stand out a little bit, or "higher" than the surrounding surfaces.

When that cures, I can then sand the excess off, so it is flush with the plywood. Then I can add the fiberglass cloth and epoxy to strengthen the joining of the 2 pieces of plywood.

[fulltimin]

I flipped the plywood today, since I had epoxy on 1 side only, so far.

I then sanded the area around where the 2 pieces joined, and made sure they were the same height, in order to get ready to epoxy this side also.

[fulltimin]

Then I proceeded to add a third coat to this side of the skirt.

[fulltimin]

Turns out the temps dropped somewhat and the epoxy was a little stiff, so it needed to be warmed up just a little bit.

[fulltimin]

I added my second coat of fiberglass cloth covered with epoxy over the seam between the 2 pieces of plywood for the left side skirt.

[fulltimin]

I also pulled out the left side skirt, because I need to add another piece to make it long enough. Adding this piece will lengthen it to about 20 feet long.

I used some fiberglass cloth, and epoxy, and applied the first coat today at the last joint. Typically, I'll use about 3 of these at the joint to hold things together.

Fortunately, epoxy will cure in a few hours and more than one coat can be applied in a day.

[fulltimin]

I have been wanting to finish off the roof at the back since last fall, and it just didn't happen.

I pulled out one of my trusses that I used to work on the roof and screwed it to the 2 saw horses so I can get up there and finish up the back area.

Now, if the weather co-operates I can get that buttoned up.

[fulltimin]

Well, it was a pretty good re-productive week.

Re-productive?

Does that mean you are making babies?

No.

Here's my twisted version.

When getting a good amount of work done, we call it a productive time, or maybe a productive week.

When some of the work has to be done over, in order to get it right, we call it ... yeah, re-productive.

Yeah, I know it's twisted and incorrect usage of the English language.

On the bright side, I did turn some of the mountains back into mole hills this week.

That means intermission is over. Yay!