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Post by LittleVintageTrailer on Mar 14, 2011 11:18:10 GMT -5
The restoration guys sent me a pic of the door as I'm having them rebuild a new one as the original door down near the bottom was pretty much shot. Also the skin on the outside needs replacing. Here are a few pics of the process. Sorry they aren't the best. This is for the 61 Compact by the way. Oh and she'll have a new door handle/lock that matches the original. They removed the skin off her rear where it was damaged and the only slight iffy spots where there was signs of damage where in the far bottom corners. So those were torn out and replaced with new. Attachments:
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Post by LittleVintageTrailer on Mar 14, 2011 11:18:37 GMT -5
Another.. Attachments:
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Post by LittleVintageTrailer on Mar 14, 2011 11:19:03 GMT -5
Last one. Attachments:
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Post by dawgpound on Mar 14, 2011 12:09:43 GMT -5
Nice Job!
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Post by momydomy on Mar 24, 2011 22:30:02 GMT -5
Are you telling me that is all the structure the door has???Must be more to it, As I am finding the shasta builders did everything to save weight I guess.. If anyone has more pics of these doors opened up, please send them. thanks
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Post by Atomic Addiction on Mar 25, 2011 11:23:13 GMT -5
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Bob
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Post by Bob on Jun 29, 2011 18:23:52 GMT -5
I rebuilt the door on our 1973 1400 today. It was wood framing around the outside perimeter and cardboard honeycomb filler in the core; just like a regular hollow core door. I added some metal strapping as a diagonal brace before I reattached the skins to help keep it square. Also, I found a 1/8" by 67" metal rod that is part of the latch side framing. If you look at the underside of the door on the latch side, there's a hole so that you can tighten the nut on the rod and stiffen up the door(?) That rod didn't make much sense to me, so I left it out of the rebuild... made adding the new wood easier.
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