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I bought my 1976 31" Sovereign International on June 24, 2010 about two miles from my home.




It's going to be a work in progress. I'll uncover, discover, and recover. It has some old leaks. I suspect the TV antenna and the skylights. I believe the leakage is minimal but I'll see.



We began by removing the living area builtins.


sofa out






Both sofas out along with the mickey mouse corner table and the finger pinch table.


Before removing the rotted floor sections under the window and by the door, I'll remove those nice blue floor tiles.

They appear to be original because the floor is like new under the tiles and the tiles go under the builtins. They come up like they were never glued with a heat gun.

The whole tile comes up in one piece. Unfortunately the glue stays down and stays sticky. Some comes up with Krud Kutter.




I removed the drapes. The end caps come off and there's a screw in the bottom track to remove and the drapes just run out the end.

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Carefree awning fabric replacement

Posted 09-01-2012 at 02:27 PM by Splitrock (1976 31' Sovereign)
Updated 09-28-2012 at 12:15 PM by Splitrock

AWNING FABRIC REPLACEMENT

The replacement awning material is on and the awning is back on. The job took two strong helpers and took 3 1/2 hours, start to finish.

The awning is a Carefree of Colorado. Dealer installed on 1976 31' center bath Airstream. The arms are 21' on center. The material length is about 20' 2". The pull out length of the material total is about 8'. The length from the extended roller to the trailer rail is about 93". Both the roller welt...
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