Doing odd jobs

Been tackling miscellaneous jobs again.

I ordered some dump valves and tail light Len's from Vintage trailer supply, the dump valves were $46.99 each and wouldn't you know it the day after I ordered them I went to Richfeild Trailer Supply in Grand Rapids, MI and they have them there for $17.00. I did pick up some parts for my Braund Skyliner antenna for $6.99, don't need them but thought I'd never find them if I did.

Antenna parts:


Could not find the long black ABS WYE for the waste piping to make a new run so I tried to save what I have and it worked very well. I cut off the old valve and then cut slits in the remaining parts about 3/4" apart and drove a small screwdriver in between what remained of the valve and the black pipe. I had to change to cutting the slits 1/4" apart as some of it was difficult to break off and I was worried I would break the black pipe. After I had almost all the old valve chipped out I went around the inside of the pipe with a rotary bur and cleaned it up.

Cutting off old valves.




Read on the web that car modelers were using Easy Off oven cleaner to strip the paint off there ABS plastic models so I tried it on the A/C shroud, took almost all the paint off with hurting the ABS plastic shroud. Also got the A/C unit back form the heating and cooling guys and they said it check out great, cost me $35.00 to have them give it a once over. The compressor what getting rusty so I paint it with some Por-15.

Before and after stripping:
After picture coming

Added a new seal to underside of A/C unit, I used the closed cell foam strip they use when mounting a topper to the bed of a truck.

Before and after:


Making new rubber vibration pads for A/C fan:




Got after some cracks and holes in the bath on the ABS plastic parts, whittled some plastic off parts that would not show and soaked them in MEK for a day to make up a paste and filled in the cracks.

Adding plastic:

Laminating and sanding.

For the past week I finished re-laminating the partition panels, did some more cleaning of interior parts and started sanding the ABS plastic in the bath. The sink, shower base, shower seat and toilet base are all yellow, from years of sun exposure I assume.
I was going to paint all of these parts and sanded a bit on the sink to see how much work the prep was going to be, found that it didn't take much to get past the yellowing.
I think it would take just as much work to prep and paint these parts as it will be to sand a polish, I am going to sand the parts with 320, 800 then 1200 grit and then polish so I don't have to worry about finding the right paint for ABS plastic, also will not have to worry about paint pealing.

Took about 4 hours to get the toilet base to it's present condition with 320 grit wet paper.

Wall panel sanded with 80 grit ready for new laminate:


Toilet base sanded, shower seat shows color before:

More bath destruction

Today I tore out more of the bath so I can check to see if the rear end is sagging, all that's left in the bath is the shower pan and black tank, it appears I do not have a sagging problem. Yippee.
I was planning on taking out the shower and black tank also but my daughter is home from school again with one of her migraines and she didn't wake up untill 11:00 a.m. so I let her skip the rest of the day.
She wanted to help but there was not much she could help me with on the shower or black tank besides most of the work thats needs to be done to get these out is outside work so I changed gears and we got a good start scrubing the walls.






As long as I have this much of the bath tore apart I am going to take the belly pan off in the rear to get to the dump valves and rebuild them and check to make sure every thing is OK under the bath before I start putting it back together.

Bath Destruction

Not much for this report.
I started taking the bathroom apart Friday so I can check if the rear is sagging or not. All I accomplished was get some trim removed and I got the bath sink off.