nice weather down here means more progress on this monster...I mean SWEETHEART... got the subfloor bolted in and braced under the seams:
in the shot above you'll notice I used a regular 3/4 ply brace under the fore portion but a slimmed-down 1/4 ply (left) under where the blacktank will ride. I noticed the tank is really close to the subfloor and I'm trying to get everything snug without ANYTHING putting pressure on the tank from above. I have determined this is a no-no and may have led to the tank cracking..
since my aft-support iron was in pretty decent shape I didn't bother adding the two "Pizzachop Wings" on the outer frame, although I'd think if your trailer doesn't have a viable aft angle like you can see in this photo you should add them for support. My angle had double holes near the frame so I used two bolts there...can't hurt. Then bent them as per original:
in this next shot you can see the pre-poly'ed subfloor was split down the middle to install and then joined & leveled with Interlux marine epoxy and then Bondo:
while I was back there it woulda been stupid not to brace the back ribs to the U-channel and tighten everything up. I bought a 3 dollar aluminum yard stick from Home Despot and cut off two six inch pieces since I've never seen a two foot ruler before ;-) drilled the pieces and shot 3/16" rivets in (I think)... nice to be solid as a rock back there again...it's probably been a coupla decades since it was...:
today I put the first coat of white Poly on the still-in-place overhead bath pieces. I'm thinking of leaving the inside of those overhead cabinets unpainted as a little memento of how faded it once was (not because I'm too lazy to paint them....really). The existing doors are starting to delaminate and they just seem too dang heavy so I think I'm gonna make some new ones our of white plexiglas instead...
I just LOVE white plex in a bath. it just seems to FIT in a clean kind of way. I'm a big fan of Carlos' Safari too and I noticed he used plex for some full length doors so I'm thinking I might go that route for the long vertical bath closet too...and while I'm at it for the sliding doors too. when I renovated my darkroom after the Big K I added a small bath/shower and fashioned a mini vanity out of an oak wall cabinet and sliding plex doors:
pretty soon I'll be reinstalling the black tank and I'm currently trying to support the black tank with new foam board, in this shot you can see my carving attempt under the dump flange:
next episode:...who knows!