Tag: floor
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Resurget Cineribus
The flag of Detroit, in addition to having about 7 flags worth of visual information on it, bears the city’s motto: “Speramus meliora; resurget cineribus.” The motto was given to the city by Gabriel Richards after the Great Fire of 1805 which wiped out the entire city in less than a day. The one building…
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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…
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Disassembly & Discovery Pt. 5 – There’s nothing left
My objective is to get down to the frame. Everything must go. Kelly came back for a second day of dissection and we got the roof off and the walls down. The “fix-it” job on the roof is truly atrocious. There was a piece of angle iron sistered in to support the sagging roof…