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About Me
- About barts
- City
- Lopez Island
- State/Province
- Washington
- Country
- UNITED STATES
- Gender
- male
- Trailer #1
- 1971 25' Tradewind
- Other Interests
- steamboating, machining, Burning Man
- Occupation
- Software engineer
- About My Tow Vehicle
- Ford F250 4x4 crewcab diesel
- Remove Page Peel in Upper Right Corner
- Remove the Page Peel from the upper right corner.
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- Bart SmaaldersLopez Island, WA
https://tinpickle.blogspot.com
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Posted 03-23-2010 at 12:27 AM by barts
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Well, more work has gotten done. Between the two of us, we've managed to do the following since our last post:
- Removed the front gaucho to make way for a dinette.
- Riveted up the battery box to hold the two group 27 batteries. Essentially air tight and has a 11/2" vent fitting for exterior ventilation & Delrin feed-throughs for power. Still needs hold-downs.
- Removed the broken and dangerous N-22 furnace.
- Removed the broken original Bowen water heater.
Posted 02-01-2010 at 01:08 AM by barts
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Well, we've been busy working on the Tin Pickle... since we picked it earlier this month up my wife and I managed to do the following:
- Removed the ghastly bumper mounted taillights the PO had added, along with all the wiring he added along the belly pan. I did some troubleshooting and drilled out the rivets holding the non-working taillight assembly in place. I managed to free the corrosion so that the socket worked properly again; the principle problem was that it had been
Posted 01-08-2010 at 10:14 PM by barts
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Posted in Restoration Blogs
My wife and I picked up a 1971 Tradewind in Delhi, California this week, and she posted in the forums about it here.
I'll do some write-ups on our efforts to get our Tin Pickle into shape; this should be a fun project for the two of us.
I'll do some write-ups on our efforts to get our Tin Pickle into shape; this should be a fun project for the two of us.
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