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03-16-2008, 07:17 AM
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Rivet Master
1966 26' Overlander
Woodstock
, Georgia
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Installing a gaucho 80 model
I salvaged the gaucho from my 78 Sovereign which was totalled in a storm, and would like to install it in my 80 Excella which has none.
I have all the parts and know how to set it up as I removed it to do the flooring in the old trailer.
Question is this- the Sovereign had 2 metal plates on the wall that the gauchos arms screwed into. Can I install without those? Will the arms be secure if screwed inot the walls directly if I find a support frame?
Thanks
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03-16-2008, 07:28 AM
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Alan, the reason those plates are there is to distribute the strain. If you only use the single attaching point, they fasteners will pull out of the wall. Our Sovereign has a similar issue, and plates were added to the existing hardware to keep the problem from recurring.
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03-16-2008, 10:44 AM
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Rivet Master
1966 26' Overlander
Woodstock
, Georgia
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Can I get the plates somewhere ...or use a substitute ?make my own, ?
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03-16-2008, 07:15 PM
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I'd just use squares of aluminum or stainless sheet. That's what's in ours, and it is holding up very well.
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03-17-2008, 06:04 AM
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Rivet Master
1978 31' Sovereign
Texas Airstream Harbor
, Zavalla, in the Deep East Texas Piney Woods on Lake Sam Rayburn
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Not a compound curve.....
Quote:
Originally Posted by ALANSD
...make my own, ?
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Shouldn't be hard to do....
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03-17-2008, 06:40 AM
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Rivet Master
1966 26' Overlander
Woodstock
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Join Date: Feb 2002
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Thanks guy, that is kind of what I was thinking, screw the mount plate into a support and then screw the arm plate into the mounted plate.
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03-24-2008, 02:42 PM
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Rivet Master
1966 26' Overlander
Woodstock
, Georgia
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 8,525
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The gaucho is in and looks/ works well. I used aluminum cut to size and double in thickness where the plate goes into the wall.
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07-02-2008, 03:50 PM
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2 Rivet Member
1983 27' Excella
French Settlement
, Louisiana
Join Date: Feb 2005
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please send me some pictures
Could you please take some pictures and send to me I have had problems with my couch.I bought the trailer and I do not have the wall plates you were speaking of or know how they go.My couch back is loose and does not hold solid it feels like it will fall back.I will try to put some pictures of the couch and see it you can figure it out.I look in the manual and it does not show any wall plates.But my couch is not wright
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07-02-2008, 05:04 PM
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2 Rivet Member
1983 27' Excella
French Settlement
, Louisiana
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here are the pictures
Hope someone can tell me what is wrong
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