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Post by harrison429 on Jul 9, 2011 17:45:00 GMT -5
we've had our shasta about 3 weeks now. most of what i've done has been removing the windows and railings and all the caulk, caulk, caulk! this weekend we completed the interior demo and started removing the floors. sorry the pix are all out of order, it's my first experience with photobucket. there are before we started making a mess photos (haha) and the making a mess photos. please excuse all the uninteresting pix that i took which were reminders of how things went together or such. s240.photobucket.com/albums/ff159/yamahaspeedfreak/1963%20Shasta%20Compact/
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Post by universalexports on Jul 9, 2011 18:03:50 GMT -5
looks like a great one for a rebuild, it will be adorable when it is done!!!
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Post by harrison429 on Jul 9, 2011 18:28:50 GMT -5
thanks, we think so too and can't wait to get her rolling for a great fall campout! i forgot to mention, the one pic where my hubby looks angry...that's heat exhaustion. 93 degrees with high humidty makes it tough to be working out there.
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Post by harrison429 on Jul 21, 2011 5:23:02 GMT -5
Checking in with some progress, yea! ;D
We got the wheel wells re-created/supported by lining them with aluminum. There was so much of the original outer wall that had rusted away that it took 2 tries before we realized how much was gone! But they are finally done and installed.
And last night we managed to get the back half of the floor in. The new floor has about 6 layers of rubber roofing on the underbelly. The floor feels solid and the whole trailer is feeling stable now. (when we opened up the trailer we discovered that neither the walls nor the floor had enough wood left that the back end was free floating off the frame!)
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Post by annie on Jul 22, 2011 1:03:34 GMT -5
Wow! Moving right a long! what a gem it will be when all done!
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Post by harrison429 on Jul 27, 2011 6:57:15 GMT -5
Yea! We finished replacing all the bottom rails with new wood. The black paint is actually an undercoating/rubbercoating. This weekend we'll go back to the floor and replace the front half. Since we already did the back half we're hoping the front half goes easier. Finally picked out some flooring too, just a basic off-white. The tiles come in 12" squares but we'll be cutting them down to 9" which we think is important with the small size of the compact. Forward Ho! image deleted
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Post by Hamlet on Jul 28, 2011 10:46:08 GMT -5
Nice work and good idea for the wheel wells. We wound up taking what rusty stuff we had left to a metal fabricator and had all new ones made. $$$ Yikes!
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Post by sodashoponwheels on Jul 29, 2011 22:01:58 GMT -5
Who would have known what was lurking behind the floor and wall panels. You're doing a terrific job.
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Post by harrison429 on Aug 5, 2011 16:47:55 GMT -5
thanks for the encouragement everyone, i swear we need it. it seems like we take 2 steps forward and one or two steps back every time we tackle something! we finally got the rest of the subfloor in today (after many problems all week, some us, some trailer). the only part we didn't replace was under the closet and along the front edge. we've got support rails underneath & alongside the other frame rails which also gave us something to screw the subfloor into. we dry tested the fit for the next layer of subfloor, 1/4 inch stuff, on the front half of the trailer that the tiles will lay on today but missed cutting a section out so that's tomorrows plan: the tiles' subfloor. we are hoping to have the actual flooring in by the end of sunday. i'm keeping my fingers crossed. image deleted
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Post by harrison429 on Aug 8, 2011 4:43:23 GMT -5
Whew, almost didn't get it done. Worked late yesterday and finished up the flooring; all except inside the closet but if I didn't tell, you wouldn't know! I'm going to start a new thread to make sure everyone learns from our mistake about the troubles of cutting the floor tiles down to vintage 9 x 9 size. It was a necessary job for our small trailer but for us it turned into somewhat of a nightmare...dang that hindsight! (I keep forgetting to resize my pix before I post!) image deleted
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Post by geengrey on Aug 14, 2011 18:12:09 GMT -5
Wow! That looks great! You are an inspiration to us. We bought ours about a week ago and have had no time to get started after shedding some of it's interior, and a little cleaning. In fact, after reading this my hubby is saying "now I want to go out and see if there is anything we can do right now." Thanks!
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Post by tomamara on Aug 14, 2011 23:58:24 GMT -5
looks great! We are trying to finish ours for some fall camping also. Good Luck with yours.
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Post by harrison429 on Aug 15, 2011 7:02:21 GMT -5
Thanks for the much needed accolades as these things can suck the life right out of you right along with the 90+ degree weather we're working in! Another secret is that those beds are just staged and still aren't in yet. We tried to work this past week and weekend but just couldn't get our hearts in it as yet again, we ran into trouble after trouble, thankfully they were minor. For those who read and thought (as I did) that 2 coats of shellac were going to work great, know that it did not for us and we're having to strip and restain the shellac on the interior pieces we thought were finished. Another week of more steps back than forward.
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Post by Hamlet on Aug 15, 2011 16:18:55 GMT -5
If you have original wood that you are keeping and new wood to add to it, the shellac should work just fine. The colors may not match this year, but as the new wood ages, it will take on the color of the original, as long as the finishes are the same. We wound up sanding the original wood to bare wood and then coating all the wood with polyurethane (apparently that's what was used on ours originally), and although it's not all a perfect match, after a year, it's getting closer.
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Post by harrison429 on Aug 21, 2011 6:46:27 GMT -5
Turns out 1 coat of amber shellac was what we needed and I topcoated that with clear shellac. You can see how great a match the new cabinet front is with the one coat. We had to rebuild the cabinet front as the other was cut up and pieced together to accomodate a larger fridge. The pic shows the dry fit, woohoo! Except that we forgot we added 1/4" subfloor over the original design so we actually have to go back and cut down the height of the cabinet but that's no big deal after all the other troubles we've run into. haha The next pic shows the dry fit with the doors and drawers in place...we're very pleased. Also, the po had painted behind all the kitchen cabinetry (yellow) including behind the oven. I stripped the area behind the oven and shellac'd and repainted the rest since it will totally be hidden with a nice clean white. I'm not sure if the area behind the oven will ever be seen but just in case I wanted it wood and not paint. Progress, yea! The kitchen cabinetry install will be finished today. image deleted
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Post by harrison429 on Aug 21, 2011 6:47:04 GMT -5
Maybe later today I'll get the final pic posted. image deleted
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Post by harrison429 on Aug 21, 2011 6:48:09 GMT -5
dang, I resized those photos before posting...guess I didn't get them reduced enough.
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Post by ultramom on Aug 21, 2011 10:13:54 GMT -5
Wow! She's looking great! Wonderful to see that although you had many hurdles, you overcame them and are making great progress. In my '63 Airflyte, I have birch that has no water damage and birch that does have a lot and will need to be replaced. I am trying to decide if I A) replace all birch and shellac so they all look the same ($$$) or B) replace only what needs to be replaced, sand it all and shellac....not caring if it matches exactly or C) replace only what needs to be replaced and paint it all a nice cream color. I love some of the painted trailers but I also love that warm wood!!!! Decisions decisions!!!! Anyway, back to you, I'll keep following! Can't wait to see more progress!!
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Post by harrison429 on Aug 22, 2011 6:22:13 GMT -5
Yippee! We finished it. I'll update my photobucket page with more pix later but here's a quick look.
If you go to the photobucket site you'll see in pic 72, the side panel next to where the oven will be...that wood is poplar. We didn't have the original cabinetry to follow and after we installed the main pieces we realized that something had to be there. Since poplar was what was on hand and we knew it wouldn't really be seen, we used it and it came out beautifully, you'd never know it wasn't birch. It made me sorry I didn't buy poplar for all the wood replacement because it's so much cheaper than the birch!
The pic with the ice box just shows the box slid in, it isn't intalled yet but we have come to realize that it's never going to have that built-in look due to retro-fitting. Later on, we may build our own ice box for a better fit and look.
Countertops will come much later. My next goal is to replace the back wall and close her up so I can start putting it back together and get to the exterior painting. I want to get her sealed up so we can use her whether or not the details and interior are finished. ;D
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Post by offspringin on Aug 22, 2011 14:40:43 GMT -5
yours is really looking great. we are kinda mixing woods. I intend to cover everything with the birch wood panels. Our existing counter will stay, and the drawer front will stay, just cutting out and paneling over. I will panel the front of all the drawers and route the sides to blend it in.
Once this is done we plan to shellac it as well, you said you used amber and clear. was there a particular type you chose to use in yours? brand etc etc. all of our exposed wood will be paneling so everything should look the same when we are done.
Thanks
BTW your lucky you have a garage/basement? to work on yours in. Ours is sitting out the the driveway. If it rains. i dont work. If its too hot... its just hot.
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Post by harrison429 on Aug 23, 2011 5:37:41 GMT -5
Thanks.
Offspringin-We used zinnser (because it was what the store carried) amber in a brush-on but the zinnser clear spray-on. Part of the reason I used the spray on was because I had it on hand but then realized it was better because I didn't want to get a solid layer of the clear shellac since the older wood doesn't have the sheen that a clear coat brushed-on would. (The po had poly'd over the wood so there's no point in doing more work)
Thankfully we're working in the carport, otherwise it would have been too hot this whole process!
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Post by harrison429 on Aug 27, 2011 16:16:51 GMT -5
I've updated our photobucket site... s240.photobucket.com/albums/ff159....asta%20Compact/Today we installed the new rear wall, cut out the window, and recreated the laminated edge that the skin nails into. I still have to shellac the little trim pieces for the interior seam where the new and old wall meets. She's all closed up...no more hitting our heads on the window framing that was hanging down and starting to look like a trailer again, whoopie! image deleted
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Post by harrison429 on Aug 27, 2011 16:18:47 GMT -5
Interior view
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Post by universalexports on Aug 27, 2011 16:59:20 GMT -5
sweet, thanks for the pics! and the link you posted 2 post up is not working,,,
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Post by harrison429 on Aug 28, 2011 7:01:30 GMT -5
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Post by Hamlet on Aug 29, 2011 18:49:11 GMT -5
It's looking wonderful!
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Post by mary1960 on Aug 29, 2011 19:26:06 GMT -5
That is beautiful ... what a great job!
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Post by harrison429 on Sept 12, 2011 7:47:26 GMT -5
Well we installed the insulation this weekend. We're only putting new stuff on the bottom half as that's all the skin we needed to remove. We bought the bubblewrap insulation and the stiff 3/4" insulation boards. Where we had to remove the old insulation (to replace the rear wall and rotted sidewall section) we thought to use the stiff insulation and just use the bubblewrap type over the old original insulation. Seemed like a good plan but it wasn't. After using the bubblewrap on the doorside (I always forget which is street and which is door... ) I refused to take a pic as it came out looking so bad! It worked but looked bad. After that we used the board insulation which was so much easier to work with and looks great! We spent a lot more money on the bubblewrap stuff and basically used very little of it after we saw how great the other stuff was. Just another lesson learned. With all this lesson learning going on you think we'd be prepared for the next resto but that's NOT gonna happen, I was told I'd find myself divorced! Initally I thought he was exaggerating the hassles of it all but after all this time I've decided he's right and one is more than enough for us! image deleted
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Post by harrison429 on Sept 12, 2011 7:50:05 GMT -5
We have the 2 side skins back on and hope to get to the front and rear this week. In the meantime, I've been working like crazy to get her ready to paint.
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Post by offspringin on Sept 12, 2011 10:15:41 GMT -5
looks like your on track to have a working unit come november! looking good!
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