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Amanda
Nickles' 1962 Shasta Compact Project
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This little charmer was discovered on Ebay
- and it was even in New York!
No bumper - solid fixed rear window which appears to be original
Tongue
jack innards are missing
Skin
is in reasonable shape
Water
filler cap
A
bit of an ouch here
Door
needs new birch but screen door is not bad
Floor
directly below the roof vent is bad - still solid though
 Beautiful
birch interior and a full stove/oven! That's an icebox.
Cute
cabinetry with plastic laminate doors - match the counter and table tops!
Potty
room/wardrobe
Plenty
of room for a potty here
Has
the twin bed dinette setup
Slight
past leakage under the back window
The
other twin bed/dinette seat and a spare tire too!
Some
minor ceiling damage
More
minor ceiling damage
The
rest of the ceiling damage
Cute
cabinets and comes with a twin-sized hammock bed as well!
Windows came out easily enough but where is Tom B. to polish them?
Dismantling for a repaint...
Removing the ice box & stove to clean out mouse residue
Removing dinette benches for the new bed/cabinet configuration
Ditto
The ice box - serious mouse signs - will remove the foam coating,
sanitize, paint, and cover with new foam.
Dry removal space under the shelter - yellow is the hammock
Windows, etc. being watched over by Sadie Belle
Tongue jack is bolted in, not welded. That's nice.
Came out real easy - now to find a new one to fit the hole!
Ground wire wasn't connected - must have grounded on the hitch alone!
Plumbing vent - full of mud dauber nests. Will screen the vent before replacing
Not much room to work up there!
Found a source for the leaks! Screw holes, four or five of them,
coming up
from inside. Funny thing is, the screws, holding the side rear
cabinets
on, appear to be original!
Roof appears to have been Kool Sealed at some point in its life
1/2" of the dreaded black tar goop all around the roof vent.
Had to chisel it away to find the screws.
Vent was in good shape, but covered in black tar.
Already in car for next week's trip to the RV Surplus Salvage
place in Elkhart, IN, to see if I can find a new one!
Was able to chisle away most of the tar residue.
A heat gun will soften the rest for removal before painting.
Jacked up on all four corners so I can get underneath to remove loose
scale, repaint where needed and spray on new truck bed liner to seal.
Doesn't appear to be a fresh bearing repack. Will repack while the wheels
are
off getting their new ST tires!
New flooring - hard to tell, but it has ALL of the colors of the
original tile - but it is nice cushiony seamless.
An Ebay find - new reproduction Bargman 99 lense covers.
Look exactly like the originals, but made from modern materials, so brighter
(safer)
One trip to TSC, one hole in 1/4" steel cut 1/2" larger and voila -new jack!
Three new ST175-80-13s to replace the P175s that were on it.
These seem so tiny next to a Scotty's 15" wheels
Taillight wiring
License plate light wiring
The other taillight
Dinette bench removed
From the looks of all the eaten nuts, looks like squirrels were in here
Water tank & dinette bench removed
Water tank was missing its drain - good thing it isn't being used!
This under-sink shelf is being removed - too nasty - will build a new one
Stove has been removed. Most of that stuff under there is lit matches!
These goodies were also found behind the stove (tossed them)
Removed the pump faucet since the tank isn't being used
Keeping things organized
Kitchen with stuff removed
Will also remove old floor tile and put in a new sub-floor
Garbage and/or burn pit!
Finally! All the totally destroyed screws along the bottom front are removed.
Had to use the pneumatic cut-off tool to cut deep slots in them
and had to buy a really really BIG screwdriver (so glad Harbor Freight came
to town)
Just recording for posterity how the door handle went on
Door removed and that's all there is - nothing but a very narrow
wooden frame - aluminum skin on the outside, 1/8" ply on the inside.
Will get a heftier interior frame plus 3/4" styrofoam to add some stability.
Driver's side upper cabinet removed
The removed cabinet
Door side upper cabinet removed
Cousin David - scraping the underside
David painting everything white, before a new undercoating of rubberized paint
Hubs removed for bearing repack
Nasty old bearing grease
Nancy's Dad - removing the inner bearings
& David taking a well-deserved break!
The hubs got a scrape down and repaint
Nice clean parts awaiting new grease & new cotter pins
Mabel inspects the new undercoat...
Need to replace a bit of framing along the bottom-side
Need a new piece of framing along the back bottom side as well
What's left of the door framing (bottom) member
New tools - will use this Kreg jig to make pocket holes for the face frames
for the new cabinetry.
70 MPH "spiral" winds evening of 10/18
Daylight and Mabel the wonder dog is all over it
Unfortunately, all the water getting in from the
torential storms did cause
some damage
Back in business...
And, with 2' long threaded rods with washers & nuts staking down the legs,
hopefully we stay back in business...
Puddle on roof leaking in through the seam.
Amazingly though, the framing member shows no rot at all
The plywood that was removed is quite rotted
The upper cabinets that had been sitting inside the windowless Shasta
were ruined - 2" of standing water will do that to plywood!
Door side wheel well trim
Screws were completely fused to the trim and not removable
Used a pneumatic cut-off tool to cut the screws off the back
and then ground off the screw heads as well and drilled new holes
Trim piece installed with new 1 1/2" ss screws!
The wheel well has also been repaired and well undercoated.
Bearings repacked and installed and new tire on!
Tackling the icebox - removing the liquid styrofoam stuff
Ooh, nasty, that has to go.
Won't be used as an icebox, but will be used like a cupboard instead.
No wonder the door was warped - big bubble in the liquid styrofoam
Re-oiled this corner using a Watco Danish Oil mixture of
10 parts golden oak to 1 part cherry.
A closer view of the re-oiled portion
Old is to the left of the window - new from the window edge to the right.
The Danish Oil is returning the rich glow to the 45 year old wood!
Another casualty of the storm - this whole area will get new plywood.
The damage was there before the storm, but the added water caused it to buckle.
The rotted framing member from along the bottom back edge
The new pressure treated framing member
Back corner has been fixed
2" door framing members, marked for mortices
Cutting mortices
Cutting the tenons in the cross pieces
Perfect fit! 2" rails, 6" stiles - much sturdier than original 1 1/2 x 1 1/2"
frame
Very good match on the new yellow ice box to the new yellow stove
Door edge trim - before and after polishing
Aluminum door panels in new colors - Butter & Ivory
New interior birch door panel - oiled
New oil color with piece of original interior plywood - very good match -
should be perfect after polyurethane is applied.
Quite a bow in the laid sideways 1x framing member
Here too
Ouch - didn't see this one from above - must be some kind of patch up there
The white spots are the screw holes from the upper cabinet
that went all the way through
the roof aluminum
New door frame all assembled with foil covered stryrofoam & aluminum tape
New birch panel is affixed to new door frame
Outer aluminum skin is affixed to new door frame
Winter is coming before the exterior paint job was accomplished
She's snug in the shelter, with a tarp covering the front & back
windows and the roof, in case there are any more shelter mishaps.
Windows & doors are TekFoiled so interior work can continue
by use of a small electric space heater.
All wooden parts removed have been moved into the shop
and ooh, check out that new Grizzly drum sander - woo hoo!
and though it may not look like it, there is room in the garage for staging.
Another day of gale winds in Michigan and the shelter blew away!
The staked down legs though, are still in place!
Alternate plan "C"
Purple Scotty moved outside behind barn, Shasta moved into Scottyport!
And, enclosed just in time - snow and ice arrived 2 hours later on 12/01!
Back lower plywood panel removed
Just 1x2 cross framing - and nothing at all in the bottom
Will add a 1x6 cross piece - maybe 2
Rotted framing around the roof vent hole.
Will replace the strip that was just stapled in and will be beefing up the
framing
member that goes across the whole trailer.
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