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Kroes' 1959 Rear Door Scotty Rebuild
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Thanksgiving Weekend - 1st Anniversary of beginning of rebuild!
The first of two trips Mabel made to the lumber yard
and hey, it snowed!
The faux antler handles are installed
The refrigerator "door" is installed
And so is the refrigerator
Hole cut for the new access door
And it's installed!
5/8" styrofoam between inner and outer door panels
The new door after 2 coats of primer and 4 coats of 100% acrylic latex
And the new bear peep-hole (just sitting there to see how it looks)
1x support structure - painted to seal it
Support structure installed (and topside painted too)
And the front - lots of 1x support structure installed
More roof support structure - this goes over the flat part of the roof
Countertop laminate is installed
Did a Ben and cut out 2 6" circles from some decent heft aluminum.
These will go around the too big taillight holes in the original skin.
My lights will install on top of them.
1/4" plywood cut into 2" wide strips. Serro made them 1 1/2 - I
am opting for wider as in my opinion, wider is better - more support.
Three strips go on top of each other. I glue them - not necessary,
but again, my opinion, it's better.
The strips fill in all the gaps betwen the 1x structure. Three 1/4" pieces
have flex, versus no flex if you used one 3/4" piece.
Another picture
That flat roof support installed.
Herculinered all the edges. My opinion, the more sealing you do, the better!
And, from the front.
12/04-06/09
Door hinge - painting with "Metal Mask" a POR15 product
Trimming the countertop
Gaps between 1x structure filled in with 3/4" foil faced foam board.
Used aluminum foil tape to seal to the boards.
And, the roof. Sealing edges with "Protecto Wrap",
a butyl hybrid window and door sealing tape.
Sealed along the edges and across the bottom
Lower skin on and window cut out
Side windows are cut out
My taillight backers cut out of aluminum plate
1x glued and braded to the back of the outer rear panel
to give something more solid than 1/4" plywood to screw lights to
Had wanted to use foil faced foam board to fill in here too, but
my depth was only 1 1/4" so had to use 2 thicknesses of 5/8"
white styrofoam - added tinfoil facing in and facing out as well for the same effect.
One side done - ready to skin
And, the interior of the new door after 2 coats of super duper exterior poly
My awning rail is in 3 pieces and curves around this last section of
roof - couldn't decide how to put something solid in all the right places
so just used 1 1/2" strips to make this curve.
Back all sealed and ready to skin
Skinned and all lights installed and THEY WORK!
Next section of skin is attached at the rear -
all I could do working alone. Need another set of hands on the
opposite of the trailer to hold it down smoothly for stapling
Niece Circe came down to inspect - counter tops are now installed. I passed!
1/4" plexiglass (gray tinted) is cut and installed in all the windows
The vintage Rambler hubcaps are installed along with the
Serro Scotty valve stem covers
Shelf across the front is made and installed.
This is where I used birch from the birch tree that fell at my neighbors!
Porch is getting put together - should be 9-10" tall when done
All the skin is now on!
A couple of holes in the skin to cover up - original electrical port
and appears perhaps to be a water filler - there was no tank when I got it.
One hole covered - aluminum flashing and a copper peace symbol.
What can I say - I'm a child of the 60s!
December 12 & 13
Lost one of the wheel well strips bringing the Scotty home from MA.
Fortunately there was a piece of the same molding along the edge
of the drop down and I wasn't going to use it. My dad is bending it to the right shape.
Twigged around the edge of the counter tops
Curtain tie backs. This is some kind of sapling I cut down,
but my brother-in-law pointed out, it looks like antler. COOL!
Oak for the window & door trim - to be planed
Planed and cut into strips. Lots of imperfections - I LOVE it!
Hopefully this ceiling seam won't leak. Because the Scotty is shorter than
original, I have a 3" overlap between front and rear roof skins. I used the
hybrid butyl tape on the backside of the seam and the regular stuff along the edge.
Stainless steel Robertson head screws every 1 1/2".
Butyl tape around the door frame. Here's a tip - remember to pull the paper
off BEFORE you start screwing it down. (I did remember here, I did forget
on one of the window eyebrows - fortunately only screwed in one screw
before I noticed it! Oops!
Door frame installed - used #8 1" stainless steel screws.
I was screwing into 1 1/4" wood - on a normal Scotty, use 5/8" #8s!
I LOVE how the new door looks - it's just sitting there - not installed yet.
The windows are installed. I used 1/4" gray tinted plexiglass. LOVE it,
but, wouldn't go that thick again. Doesn't have enough flex for the window
to close properly. Going to have to do some tweaking.
The cool bear decals I picked up in the UP - looks like etched glass.
One on each of the side windows.
Edge strips are installed. My "crew", Dad sat on the stool and
held the back corner down and brother-in-law Craig held them down
from the sides while I screwed them in place.
And look - clothes in the closet - I think someone MAY be going to
Florida - SOON!
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