Tag: design
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Game on
I had to paint the kitchenette with Kilz because it had gotten some mold spotting on it. What a drag to paint over all that gorgeous poplar and birch ply, but I couldn’t spend the time and money to rebuild it. I got it set and attached the street side wall, set the dinette seats,…
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Design & Build Pt. 3 – Take a seat – designing and building the dinette
I started working on the dinette seats. Based on the drawings and photographs I made, and videos from dinettes in other vintage trailers, I constructed a lightweight frame and skinned it with paneling. I used a Kreg pocket hole jig to make the joints strong and compact. The corner trim piece for the dinette seat…
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Design & Build Pt. 2 – Totally floored
Kind of a mile stone last week, I finished building the floor, got the wheel wells installed, and laid down some linoleum. Now it’s time to start building cabinets. Since I busted out all of the original cabinets (I didn’t know they attach from the metal side – i.e. the outside) I am faced with…
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Design & Build Pt. 1 – There’s no place to go but up
I took the trailer apart all the way down to the frame and patched some rusty spots. Then I wire wheeled the whole thing, washed it with Simple Green, and prepped it for POR-15 paint. I used an aluminum spray paint for the silver spots. It took soooooo long and the weather was record high…