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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Tikki2, all very good info. I recall now that this issue came up perhaps last winter and sent me searching for alternatives to an aluminum interior skin. Seems like a couple of solutions are possible: gluing an insulating strip of foam to the ribs before riveting the aluminum skin to the interior. Or using a product like the Durabull veneer from SR Wood. Presumably the condensation would be less. Or I could use the 3M double sided construction tape I used with very good results on the skin of the outside storage. Makes a nice clean look without rivets and the associated dimples and the foam layer between the two adhesive faces would give some insulation. Only problem here is that the tape is tenacious and if one had to get into the space behind the skin in the future, it would likely result in the destruction of their skin in that area...
I will have to make the decision very soon as I've pretty much finished the outside. imended up painting the outside with polyurethane auto paint, using a high solids metallic silver Porsche color called polarsilber. It came out very nicely - brought the whole camper together, resolving its many different skin tones and conditions. 67, I investigated the vinyl wrap but rejected it because of the very many rivets and all the sharp corners around windows and doors. So here's how Argo looks:
So now it's on to the inside, which I am hoping will go more quickly. Here's the current state inside:
The wiring is in. I need to test the circuits, complete the insulation, and then the inner skin and construct the interior. I'm thinking a trial run without cabinetry in a month or so, just to see how it all feels before the final push.
It been a long time since October 2013 when Argo came into my life. As the wise man said, be careful you wish for...
Onward!
Dick
I will have to make the decision very soon as I've pretty much finished the outside. imended up painting the outside with polyurethane auto paint, using a high solids metallic silver Porsche color called polarsilber. It came out very nicely - brought the whole camper together, resolving its many different skin tones and conditions. 67, I investigated the vinyl wrap but rejected it because of the very many rivets and all the sharp corners around windows and doors. So here's how Argo looks:
So now it's on to the inside, which I am hoping will go more quickly. Here's the current state inside:
The wiring is in. I need to test the circuits, complete the insulation, and then the inner skin and construct the interior. I'm thinking a trial run without cabinetry in a month or so, just to see how it all feels before the final push.
It been a long time since October 2013 when Argo came into my life. As the wise man said, be careful you wish for...
Onward!
Dick
