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 collapsed. Because of a number of issues dealing with the wrecker truck, we had to release the camper as the truck was reeled up over the bank. The good news is that the truck is as good as new after a thorough rinsing, inspection of brakes, etc. The bad news is that the camper was thoroughly drowned. A lot of people had far worse trouble than we did, so we consider ourselves lucky. The floods are ongoing as I write.
Our planned trip to Montana in June is called off. heh.
However, I have now convinced my dear Jane that its time to really update the TC. After drying for several days we pulled out the interior. Amazingly the Zolatone paint that I had applied last year is good as new after a cleaning.
Without burdening the TC family overmuch, I'd like to ask some advice other than don't park too near a flood :-).
My DW was overjoyed that I had a plan for the bathroom: a composting toilet developed by Nature's Head http://www.natureshead.net/. Our holding tank was practically unusable and there was no real grey water tank on the 67 Avion. Our plan is to rip out the bathroom and install one of these and converting the blackwater to a greywater tank. Any experience with this?
Finally, the roof. I admit that I have not really done the work I should have. Now, I need to remove the various sealants on the roof and repair it. We are also setting up for a solar installation. Any advice as to this?
Here's hoping I have posted the pictures correctly. And many thanks in advance for your advice.
Our planned trip to Montana in June is called off. heh.
However, I have now convinced my dear Jane that its time to really update the TC. After drying for several days we pulled out the interior. Amazingly the Zolatone paint that I had applied last year is good as new after a cleaning.
Without burdening the TC family overmuch, I'd like to ask some advice other than don't park too near a flood :-).
My DW was overjoyed that I had a plan for the bathroom: a composting toilet developed by Nature's Head http://www.natureshead.net/. Our holding tank was practically unusable and there was no real grey water tank on the 67 Avion. Our plan is to rip out the bathroom and install one of these and converting the blackwater to a greywater tank. Any experience with this?
Finally, the roof. I admit that I have not really done the work I should have. Now, I need to remove the various sealants on the roof and repair it. We are also setting up for a solar installation. Any advice as to this?
Here's hoping I have posted the pictures correctly. And many thanks in advance for your advice.
67avion wrote:
merc25,
Welcome aboard and best of luck. The Avion is a project for folks with loads of patience.
I did order panels from Cayo about two years ago, as I recall. Interestingly, the wrong side panels were shipped and had to be replaced. As I understood it, from talking to the Cayo office, they have molds that replicate the shapes of all of their products. So, I assume that they bend them as needed. I also recall someone saying that Cayo no longer was providing the panels. I don't know the basis of that.
Every one of my experiences with Cayo were terrific. So, things may have changed. Keep calling.
I think you will be able to get the panels from Cayo Repair Service. They may not match in finish exactly. It would not be hard to make your own or have some made. Might take some trial and error but I would not let that stop me.
I took some pretty big dents and creases out of mine with good results. Here's pics to compare with yours:
Once I finish with the polish you will never know it was there
One of the Experts in the other forum thinks that because it is not tempered aluminum that the dent area is stretched and will not go back to it's original shape after it has been dented. In the bigger dent that I fixed I was able to get it to shrink a tiny bit so I will keep playing with them. If I can't get a solution I will put patches over the ugly ones and live with the others. The patches look cool anyway.
I'll let you all know if I find a solution.
I'll let you all know if I find a solution.
I've seen a lot of threads here on how to fix big dents but none on fixing smaller dings. I'm talking about the little door dings, rock dings, bug dings, knocking on the back door dings and so forth. Now that I have started to polish my camper I am seeing them all over the place.
I have seen the "dent removal with heat" thread and that process does work on some of the shallower dings but I have not had success with it on the bigger ones.
In the pic below you can see one like I am talking about. The ding is in the lower panel to the right (of the photo) in the section that is polished.
What do you all do with those?
I have seen the "dent removal with heat" thread and that process does work on some of the shallower dings but I have not had success with it on the bigger ones.
In the pic below you can see one like I am talking about. The ding is in the lower panel to the right (of the photo) in the section that is polished.
What do you all do with those?
