I got started on my summer project the last couple days. I found this thing on Craig's list for $100 and drove it home. It's a 78 Dodge Monaco 23' with a 440. Here's what it looked like when I brought it home.
Ok, time to dive in!
Oh man, I can't believe the huge bag of rusty screws I have already! It's actually not as rotten as I was thinking it was going to be. Just in the corners, where the screws need to be. Still so much to remove....
Ok, time to dive in!
Oh man, I can't believe the huge bag of rusty screws I have already! It's actually not as rotten as I was thinking it was going to be. Just in the corners, where the screws need to be. Still so much to remove....
Thanks, Mr H. A big shop would help a lot as the monsoon season is looming closer and closer. :B
Ok, update time! Got the right side lower plywood glued in.
I used up my first bundle of 2x2s today, but the rear frame is DONE!
I added a little box under the toilet to give it something more to mount to. Not sure if it was a problem area or not, but better safe than sorry.
Ok, update time! Got the right side lower plywood glued in.
I used up my first bundle of 2x2s today, but the rear frame is DONE!
I added a little box under the toilet to give it something more to mount to. Not sure if it was a problem area or not, but better safe than sorry.
Malcolm, I spent the last 5 years in my trade in the office drawing on paper, to make thing work in the real world & to pass this on to the guys who were out there noses to the grind stone so to speak. If you would go and buy a architectural triangle scale, (They are cheep) using the largest scale of 3"= 1' , this brings little things into detail, and drawing your project to scale as best you can in a cross section of the wall at roofs edge, Malcolm you will find that it is far easer to use an eraser on paper, than that to re -cut wood to fit later. Here is a very pleasent catch, And as a very good by product, it will trully amaze you how ideas/improvements come to you mind, in a studious true to scale drawing. As a teacher once told me, the more of the 6 senses you can use in learning, the quicker you will learn. Or ....a picture is worth a thousand words.
I'll have to look for that stuff next time I'm there. Sounds interesting.
Here's my 'fancy' roof pic. I like to do stuff without plans usually, that way I can make a last minute change without feeling too guilty about it. 🙂
I figure I could leave the roof flat across the front as it will be downhill anyway, then make the top rounded with the exception of where the A/C unit (and maybe the rear vent) will be. Then leave the rear most board a flat one to make a little downhill run there too. Then again, rounding the downhill area in the front might also be good for wind resistance, and head room if I do the inside too!
John, I can hear my grandfather in you. He was an old carpenter who wasn't scared of any project. An overhang would probably be a good idea, but I'm scared I'd get laughed out of the campgrounds. I'd be the one laughing when they all show up the following years with water damage I guess. :B
Here's my 'fancy' roof pic. I like to do stuff without plans usually, that way I can make a last minute change without feeling too guilty about it. 🙂
I figure I could leave the roof flat across the front as it will be downhill anyway, then make the top rounded with the exception of where the A/C unit (and maybe the rear vent) will be. Then leave the rear most board a flat one to make a little downhill run there too. Then again, rounding the downhill area in the front might also be good for wind resistance, and head room if I do the inside too!
John, I can hear my grandfather in you. He was an old carpenter who wasn't scared of any project. An overhang would probably be a good idea, but I'm scared I'd get laughed out of the campgrounds. I'd be the one laughing when they all show up the following years with water damage I guess. :B
Not trying to be pest here Malcolm, That if you were to drive threw an older, neighborhood housing development. That you would notice that there is no roof overhang from the side walls. That in later years the overhang was developed, to keep the melting water from backing up from the lower roofs ice jams at the roofs lower edges. In the winter from sudden weather warm ups, and flowing past/under the shingles and into the walls. Instead, with the roof overhang, when this occurs as it still does, the water gets past the shingles/plywood underlayment, but drips down & out from the bottom of the overhang, The rafters are notched to sit low at the tops, instead of sitting on top of the upper plates, this notch is called a "Birdmouth", in the trade. Thus allowing in the roofs slope, the overhangs lower horizontal bottom half tthat comes back into a/the finish wall at a lower point. Thus any water at this point meats a vertical finish wall to drain down. And on a house, any water problems with guttering/fascia board. away from the walls the depth of the overhang. I had a roofer foreman tell me once, that you can control water by the flow of the water, far, far better that to try and stop it.
Thus when I remember the older truck campers over hang, the two came together. Now whether this would apply to your class c traveling 60-70 with a head wind..........????? Your choice of course !! In your spare time, (pun intended) you might sketch out several potabilities. Key word here "POT", Only trying to pass on possibilities.
Thus when I remember the older truck campers over hang, the two came together. Now whether this would apply to your class c traveling 60-70 with a head wind..........????? Your choice of course !! In your spare time, (pun intended) you might sketch out several potabilities. Key word here "POT", Only trying to pass on possibilities.
