dieseleagle
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69cayo, do you have any pictures of the Avion TC project? I'd love to see them. My other camper is a Lance, so you've married the two genres, and you're practically a neighbor.
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69cayo
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I don't want to highjack this thread so just give you an idea......
I have along ways to go.
Just started removing and resealing windows.
The more I look the more I find 
Dennis
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mwallace61
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You can start another thread, we can watch both! ;-)
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mwallace61 wrote:You can start another thread, we can watch both! ;-)
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Yes!! Please do! I've never seen one like that. I'd be interested in seeing and learning more about it!!
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Wishin
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Wow, the shine is outstanding on that tank. I'm impressed, with everything you've done.
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dieseleagle
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Way cool, 69cayo. The skin looks pristine, at least from this perspective. You are doing it right. First comes making it watertight. After that its just a series of doable mini-projects.
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69cayo
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dieseleagle wrote:Way cool, 69cayo. The skin looks pristine, at least from this perspective. You are doing it right. First comes making it watertight. After that its just a series of doable mini-projects.
Thankyou...As you well know the more you do the more you see that needs doing.
The skin is anodized which is a blessing in one respect and not in another. Being 40 yrs. old the anodizing is pretty much worn out so there's no hope to bring it back to a newer condition.
Whats left of it also prevents any chance of polishing the surface so I've yet to decide what I'll end up doing there.
I've knocked out quite a few dents and patched/repaired sloppy (that's putting it nicely) work by POs.
This was a good size hole that was covered over with duct tape and roofing tar.......
The windows are time consuming with reglazing (plexiglass), cleaning frames, new seals and then cleaning the opening of a multitude of caulks and silicone.
I'll start a thread down in truck campers at some point with a bit more detail.
In the meantime I'm awaiting your next installment. What a fantastic job your doing.
Dennis
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Before advancing to the main story I thought I'd offer the picture of both propane tanks with their first stage cleaning and polish. The second tank had a lot more gouges and scrapes, but from three feet away you can't see them. Considering what they looked like at first I'm pleased with the result.
I did find a painter. As I was opeing the shop door at 7 am Saturday he was pulling into the drive as promised. Even including chitchat involving building cars and racing the whole process took less than an hour and cost much less than the price of a gun and a respirator. Spraying inside of a closed can is way different than spraying in a booth. I don't know how he could see, but apparently he could see well enough.
It had been suggested to me that it would be a good idea to isolate the latex paint fromt he etching primer, so I used a coat of oil based Kilz. Don't know if it was really necessary, but I needed to start to tone down the primer gray anyway.
The next step was to caulk all of the window frames which took way longer than expected. But I got a nice tight even line. The first topcoat is a works-in-progress.
Work schedule permitting I hope to have the painting done before the weekend so I can move on the the next steps.
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mwallace61
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Awesome, as usual!
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69cayo
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Very nice ! Do you know what primer he used ?
On another subject did you use "A" or "AD" rivets ?
I was led to beleive AD(hard)was the proper rivet but now I see Vintage Trailer Supply is selling soft(1100)buck rivets which would be A ???
Dennis
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