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Nov 25, 2016 20:00:23 GMT
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That is a lot of hours! Well worth keeping the older ones on the road though. When I looked into mine (which is more modern than I wanted really), I worked it out at about 1983, ish. At some point Deanline was A-Line, and I think it was bought out by Abi in the end. It appears, as you say, to be cheap mass-produced stuff. It has some rear end damage, I think the chassis is okay, but the rear lower panel is dented in, and the knock caused the wall near the door to come away from the floor. This meant the door didn't shut correctly, and caused rot in some of the framework. I cut some rotten/broken material out, so the door closes, but will need to address this if it ever goes back to being a real caravan. I was going to try and repair the frame from the inside, cutting the board out for access. Is it easier/better to take bits of the outer alloy skin off instead? It's going military themed, so the repair doesn't have to be anywhere near the finish you produce! With the caravans after 1982 like yours you have to do the repairs from the inside The thing is with these modern construction caravans Is they cannot be repaired really you can only mask the rot You cannot remove the outer pannels
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edessex
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Nov 25, 2016 20:32:15 GMT
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The inside doesn't have to go back in as neat as it was, so I don't mind ripping larger sections out to get at the bits I need to replace. As I said, its just around the door that is damaged/rotten as far as I can tell.
I'm guessing you re-do all the wiring and gas pipes as well, are you certified, or do you have to take it somewhere?
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Nov 25, 2016 22:53:24 GMT
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Just read this thread. Brilliant, just brilliant. Keep it up please.
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Nov 27, 2016 20:53:01 GMT
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Cheers for the positive comments it's nice
There's nothing exceptional about it this just takes lots of hours and love
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1961 FORD POPULAR 100e 2.0 dohc Mk1 2dr Ford cortina
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Nov 28, 2016 19:45:46 GMT
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Yes i,ve read it i think the Grizz pod got me started to want to build my own caravan
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1961 FORD POPULAR 100e 2.0 dohc Mk1 2dr Ford cortina
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If anyone who fancies building one I'd fully encourage it and if I can help with information or whatever ask away 👍
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This is the bedford ca ice cream van being slowly rebuilt
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Just as well it sells ice creams, it looks like it would be absolutely sweltering inside with all that glass.
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First it got stripped roof windows ect the problems with it was the panels were all wrong massive amounts of filler over all joins there were hundreds of nails holding the panels on every time you put a fixing in to aluminium it has an impact dent the guy who did this a few years back put a nail every 20mm you only really need enough to hold the pannel on until you put beading on like 4 fixings in an 8 x4 sheet would do more fixings more filler filler is porous
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These back corner panels were made up from a few bits of aluminium and welded and overlap jointed originally then when the frame was built a few years back they got broken apart the prices were nailed to the frame then covered with lots of filler over the joins I knew I wouldn't be able to re make them in aluminium so I roughly re filled them after digging out the filler to find all the joins then I took a mould of each one in fibreglass
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That's surprising, I would have expected those corners to be fibreglass. Replacements look really good.
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As you can see from previous post the wheel arch has a kind of inner cover under the main aluminium panel not sure why really this was proud of the wood frame 8mm due to it's folded edges therefore it kept the aluminium from sitting flush with the frame around the wheel The last guy kept these and made the panel flat ish sorta by putting some big fook of roofing nails in the middle of this large panel so that the 8mm descepenxy was local to the wheel arch The nails caused a dent about 3' squared wich was filled lol
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I ripped off the old cover thing and fabricated a bracket that holds a bit of wood that will hold the ally nice and strong at 70 mph
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This is that panel on
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I've done a bit on the roof fibreglass end caps too but total time on this is about 70 hours so far
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