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.
The Polishing Grind Continues.
Over the last week/end we have made what is apparently little progress. We have come up against the difficult task of deanodizing and polishing the underside of the bunk, wings and tub. It seems as if water and condensation stream down the camper to collect on the undersides of the wings and cabover where it sits, and stays, and slowly evaporates leaving behind a calcified series of tiny little stalactite type bumps that are extremely difficult to remove. Oven cleaner doesnโt do it. Toonbrite doesnโt do it.
We have come up with a process that works finally. First, we sand the area with 300 grit, then we deanodize what anodizing is left, third we Toonbrite and lastly polish. Well we havenโt actually polished much yet in that area as it has taken a while to figure out how to deal with the problem.
We have polished the right corner of the cabover, the front of the tub under the cab window.
Even though we have not made much progress this week I think we have the process down now and thinks will pick up again next week.
Because it had been sitting since the last deanodizing session and it rained a lot I first had to clean up the areas to be polished before starting.
It takes about an hour of polishing to do the front side of that corner.
I cant wait to get a whole endcap finished!
After we finish the tub and under the bunk I will lower the stand so we don't have to do this.
This pic shows the front of the tub polished. We had to go back and deanodize some more so you see some whitish areas in places that we did not have time to go back and repolish.
Over the last week/end we have made what is apparently little progress. We have come up against the difficult task of deanodizing and polishing the underside of the bunk, wings and tub. It seems as if water and condensation stream down the camper to collect on the undersides of the wings and cabover where it sits, and stays, and slowly evaporates leaving behind a calcified series of tiny little stalactite type bumps that are extremely difficult to remove. Oven cleaner doesnโt do it. Toonbrite doesnโt do it.
We have come up with a process that works finally. First, we sand the area with 300 grit, then we deanodize what anodizing is left, third we Toonbrite and lastly polish. Well we havenโt actually polished much yet in that area as it has taken a while to figure out how to deal with the problem.
We have polished the right corner of the cabover, the front of the tub under the cab window.
Even though we have not made much progress this week I think we have the process down now and thinks will pick up again next week.
Because it had been sitting since the last deanodizing session and it rained a lot I first had to clean up the areas to be polished before starting.
It takes about an hour of polishing to do the front side of that corner.
I cant wait to get a whole endcap finished!
After we finish the tub and under the bunk I will lower the stand so we don't have to do this.
This pic shows the front of the tub polished. We had to go back and deanodize some more so you see some whitish areas in places that we did not have time to go back and repolish.
