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Post by sfhurst on Nov 17, 2009 20:45:03 GMT -5
I am cleaning up the exterior skin in preperation for painting and I keep running across these small, sharp dimples that are clearly the point of screw trying to break through from inside. The mystery is there is no evidence of a corresponding screw on the inside. It is clearly not the result of some previous owner adding a shellf or fixture to the interior and using a too long screw. The location of the dimples is too random. Whatever it is it is under the interior paneling. Any ideas?
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joek
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Post by joek on Nov 18, 2009 0:30:26 GMT -5
The cabinets are both nailed and screwed in. Also, at various areas, they put in cross blocking. This was nailed in using toe nails, and more than a few on my trailer were errant and the tips were on the exterior side of the studs. Or maybe the builders grabbed handfull of paneling nails that were bit too long. One guy told me he found a screw through his roof from the cabinet installers, about 1/2" too long. They just globbed some sealant over it and moved on.
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cowcharge
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Post by cowcharge on Oct 22, 2010 13:10:35 GMT -5
I know this is a really old thread, but as I've been taking my camper apart, I have run across literally hundreds of little loose circular curlicues of aluminum. Every time I pull a ceiling panel out I get showered with them and have to clean 'em up or I end up driving them into the floor when I walk on 'em. What I think they are is the bulging aluminum at the pierce-point of a screw, that gets dented inward, then cut or broken off by the wider part of the screw as it drives in. Sort of like the top of a volcano stretching up, then blowing off. They are tiny, very short tubes, and usually partly crushed. They could easily be trapped under the skin and feel like a screw...
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