[87MH]

Finished cutting out the bad floor under the Gaucho caused by the battery acid. (Picture #1)

***Note to self.....Batteries INSIDE could be a bad thing - mount the battery on the tongue.....

Installed a 3/4" 7 ply full floor panel under the 1/2" original floor in the spare tire area (Pic # 2), cut matching 1/2" 5 ply plywood to fill in cut out area - everything securely screwed into place.

Last pic - a "gotcha" - can you say Cherry-Max-Rivet?

Ran into a couple of these when removing the Battery Access Door -
(No interior battery - won't need the door - would have had a devil of a time making the thing waterproof.)
Cherry Max rivets have a carbon steel inner core - makes for a really nasty drill out. The compressed stems shown in the last photograph are actually holding themselves perpindicular to a magnet - either they are carbon stemmed or Airstream has invented Magnetized Aluminum.....