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purman · 06-27-2012, 11:19 PM

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Originally Posted by worldinchaos

Nice job. Whatever you are taking, i'd like some of it. Your speed is impressive. :-)

Nice looking pictures, it looks like you'll be done with a week to spare at this rate.

I'm taking a pill called "deadline with camp reservations on the Oregon coast"

ROBERTSUNRUS · 06-27-2012, 11:23 PM

Hi, I think you are just a fast as the Airstream assembly line. When does it go through the shower?

goransons · 06-27-2012, 11:54 PM

Jason, when you guys headed to the coast? Looking great, wish my progress was moving that fast!

purman · 06-28-2012, 09:30 AM

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Originally Posted by goransons

Jason, when you guys headed to the coast? Looking great, wish my progress was moving that fast!

Surpose to leave the 18th of July. That gives me 3, 3 day weekends as my wife has Mondays off. but during the week I have all four kids and office work to do as well. Might be some late nights. As long as it is usable.

purman · 06-30-2012, 08:58 PM

I went with R-TECH insulation because it was cheaper and had a thermal R value of 7.5 and not a radiant R value prodex has that depends of reflecting heat. I will mention this decision in another post later.

I went with 1.5 inch which fit perfect. The foil side went to the outside. Cut and went in pretty easy. Then I had to get the skins back on. Nearly done and over 200 rivets so far.

Tomorrow I will get the rest of the rivets in and then clean the inside panels. Then I hope to get the plumbing lines in and the water heater and inverter. I still have all the PEX lines from taking it out. So with a little modification It should go in pretty quick..

Then Monday I can get the bathtub in place, and start building walls and cabinets.

goransons · 07-01-2012, 09:37 AM

Jason, great work, and wow you work fast! Feels great having that solid floor I bet!

purman · 07-01-2012, 10:21 AM

So instead of doing a double post you can read here why I chose to go with R Tech over prodex or fiberglass insulation to do the inside with.

http://www.airforums.com/forums/f46/...ork-93094.html

3Ms75Argosy · 07-01-2012, 04:20 PM

I'm so impressed with your work!! You'll love the coast!
Marc

purman · 07-02-2012, 01:21 PM

Finished getting the sides riveted back on. My hands are about done, 300 rivets and they are pretty toast. Got the inverter and breaker box back in and hooked up.

Also got the outside plug for the a/c power back in. Painted it silver as it was white before came out ok.

The plumbing went back in. Used the pex from the previous remodel but made a few changes. I also put the foam around the pipes and use clips to hold them down. Hoping this will stop any noise from the pipes vibrating when the pump is going.

I had it set up so I could drain the cold and hot water lines out the back. This time I put in a spigot so I can use a hose, or if I adjust the drain valves for the hot and cold I could hook up an outside shower. If I get a long enough hose I could run it to my sun shower tent. Also put a valve in the cold water line to the hot water tank so if we are just going away for a night or two I don't have to have it full of water.

Also spent 1-2 hours cleaning the inside skins. You can see a before and after in the pictures. I used scrubbing bubbles and a scrub brush, then a wet cloth and a dry towel to get it clean.

I know everyone talks about quality control and in the pictures you can see what a poor job of cutting around the fridge access panels they did. But when you put trim on it looks ok. No better 44 years ago I guess.

Aage · 07-02-2012, 01:48 PM

Looking good, Jason. Here's hoping it all works out for your dates. The family will sure have a ball in it!

purman · 07-02-2012, 07:21 PM

I had to go down to the wood shop and bring up the table saw and some other tools so I could start the inside construction. I am also doing the inside out of Aspen boards and Birch ply. I have a ton of aspen boards I picked up at and auction dirt cheap which was a whole lot cheaper than the Maple I have. Plus I love the look of aspen.

Got the toilet in place for measurements and the counter top set in place. Now I can start building the cabinets up for the bathroom. But the wife went out with the oldest kid and I can't get stuff done with just the young ones around.

Aerowood · 07-03-2012, 06:46 AM

Man you are flying on this rebuild, is it easier second time around? the frame and fllor work look great and I hope you meet your deadline

purman · 07-03-2012, 08:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Aerowood

Man you are flying on this rebuild, is it easier second time around? the frame and fllor work look great and I hope you meet your deadline

Yep, It is easier the second time. I know what I want to do and after the first time round I kinda know how to do it so it works.

Not much of a work day today. Kids have dentist apt. in the big city. So I will be stoping by some stores for supplies. Need so new cushions and material to cover them. That will be the night time project. Sewing up the new couch covers. I am so tiered in the mornings, I really am gonna need this vacation when I'm done.

purman · 07-04-2012, 10:14 PM

Got the bathroom all done today (except for the cabinet doors, but I will do those all at once). Not sure if I am going to stain or just clear coat the Aspen and Birch ply. Will decide later.

Also got one upper cabinet done that goes over one of the couches. Will get the other one done tomorrow and get them up. Once I have these up and can build the closets.

purman · 07-05-2012, 07:29 PM

Not to productive today. Only with the kids and Emma had a friend over. But I did get the upper cabinets built and in place. Also got two of the walls built, one for the closet on the cs and then the next one down the separates the kitchen. Hope to get them in place tomorrow and get the other side done too.

purman · 07-06-2012, 08:20 PM

Been working hard when I can, Hope to have the inside framed out tomorrow and pretty close to done, by the end of the day.

I need to make a list of stuff I have to do. Spent some time at the hardware store today and other places.

Ordered my Andersen WD hitch, should be in monday. Also got a tire psi and temp. sensor kit ordered today. Will post some pics at the end of the day tomorrow.

Also figured out how to spin in my own fittings of the grey and fresh tanks. The RV guy said "why did you order fresh tanks for grey tanks?" I said because you told me we couldn't get abs tanks in the right size. Man that guy has no memory. Well he is 70 I think?

Any way I didn't want to have to mark the tanks and spend and hour or two taking them down to the RV guy and hanging around for him to spin them in. All they use is a router to spin them in with. I have one of those. I rigged up a hole cutter to sit over the fitting and spin it in. We let you all know how well it works.

purman · 07-07-2012, 10:04 PM

Got the closets built and all the walls put in except the one by the front bed. Didn't get everything I wanted done but then we had a thunder storm roll in this afternoon for a few hours. The oval at the bottom of the one closet of for dirty clothes. Gotta keep the kids organized

I have changed the walls from 1/8 to 1/2 inch. On average the old walls weighed 5 lbs. the new ones weighed 15 lbs. So tota,l I am only adding about 80-90 lbs in plywood.

You can see in the pictures how I am attaching them. I run a piece of 3/16 inch strip along one side and screw it to the wall. then glue and nail the wall divider to it. Then run a 3/16 x 1/4 piece along the other side that is nailed to the wall to cover up any gaps. The tops and bottoms are attached to another piece of wood screw to the floor or underneath the upper cabinets. This makes for a much better wall.

When the storm moved in I decided to work on the grey and water tanks.
I needed to put in some outlets. And not having outlets put on I was going to mark them and have them spun in. I decided to do it myself to save money and time.

It worked out great. You can see in the pictures below, I took a hole saw and it was a tight fit over the fitting. Now the guys at the RV store used a rotor to spin them in, but the hole saw wouldn't fit in my rotor fitting. I used an electric drill instead of my cordless. It work great, spinning them in and melting them as it went. Now I know these are going to hold because for some reason I put them on the wrong tanks

I had to cut one off and cut one out. believe me they were in there and not coming out. Don't ask me what I was thinking when I did this I just don't know.

I used the cut out plugs from the new holes to plug the old. I used through the roof to put them in with and will cover that with epoxy when it dries. The fresh tank had small fitting that went in and then tightened up from the outside. You can see the pics of my patch.

Yep Murphy was around today, thats for sure. But it worked out in the end.

purman · 07-08-2012, 10:44 PM

While putting the sink in the old marble counter top, I dropped the pipe wrench. It landed on a bag that had a can of spray paint in it. It punched a hole in it and proceeded to empty the hole can in one second.

It got on the marble and me, but mostly all over my shop. It came off me and the marble with lacquer thiner. But my 2 compressors and everything else has black all over it. I'm thinking if it hadn't been in the bag it would have been a whole lot worse.