The window stripping is now in all the windows except the non-opening window behind the door (which has a slightly different type of frame):
One of my friends did most of this work, I think made easier by using a 250W halogen work light to warm up the silicone stripping. Anyway, it looks rather nice and I just have to put a little Vulkem on the corners to finish up.
Most of the bulb seal is done too, just a few windows remaining, and four of the windows are completely back together, with newly-greased cranks. Nice to have windows that open again!
Here's a slighter better photo of the inside of the RV500 water heater installation:
You can see the slightly-angled baseplate held to the floor with carriage bolts, the shelf supports used to hold the vertical frame in place, and the aluminium sheet edging around it.
I need to get the plumbing done too, but I've been working towards getting the interior ready to paint. I decided that the surface-mounted conduit for the light switches was too ugly, and that some small patches over holes needed to fish the cables would look nicer. So I did that with a little hole-saw and a lot of swearing:
Now I need to clean up that filler and patch those new holes, preferably without drilling right through the cables I just fished... I need to find my drill-stops or get some new ones so I can avoid that. Still, once painted the same as everything else, I think the circular patches will look just fine.
I replaced the last interior panel at the back, street-side, adding a large patch where the old water heater was. Insulation again was two layers of FBF. Still needs patching on the outside, but for the first time in a while there are no gaping holes in the trailer on the interior.
So, just need to make those few patches, remove all the switch plates again, sand as much as I can stand to, clean, mask off the windows, and get to work painting. Well, I need to choose the colours too. Probably a pale green for at least the higher parts of the walls and the ceiling, possibly with the lower wall panels in a different colour.
I patched the cracks in the skin by the door - I can't find a "before" photo in the thread - with
a slightly-more-than-semi-circular patch about 10" in diameter. That's a link to a not-that-great photo of it, I didn't take a good one. It went pretty well except that I drilled a couple of holes in the patch that turned out to be too close to the edge of the door frame, so I couldn't get rivets through them. So I might have to make another patch and try again, with the holes slightly further from the edge.
On my need-to-buy-soon list:
- Alclad sheet for large exterior patch.
- 6061 sheet for belly skin.
- Water tanks: black, grey, fresh.
- Water pump/strainer.
- PEX line & fittings.
- Toilet.
- Inverter/charger.
- AGM battery (may cheap out for now and just use a slightly worn-out car battery).