Well, it’s been a quiet few days with the trailer. After my csr breakdown, I ended up spending much of the weekend at a reenactment, though I did fit in time to do one more window. Generally, it was nice to take a break, to catch up with friends (who think I am [...]
In my ongoing quest to repair my windows, I took a half day off work and made an attempt at getting to Blaine Window Repair yesterday.
Note: emphasis should be placed on “attempt.”
However, rain, bad traffic and a broken serpentine belt conspired against me. I ended up shored up on an offramp to the Capital [...]
Last night I finally figured out how to use the Alumiweld system! As the instructions say, you heat up the metal you are welding very hot, remove the torch and melt in the alumiweld stick. The tough part, it turned out, was getting the broken window frame hot enough to melt alumiweld.
I first started by [...]
I’m inserting this in draft form earlier than I intended, since lots of folks are working on restoring windows (and I’ve got a few emails on this). I am still figuring out a couple of steps (see notes) and will revise this as I work on all the different windows.
Please note–these instructions only apply to [...]
What a weekend!
Saturday started off early. Stuart Natoff came over to weld the front of our frame. He fabricated a beautiful replacement segment, then welded it right in. Turns out, Rick didn’t have to recut the damaged part flush with the frame, but the new piece was so well made, it slotted in there easily. [...]
I decided to take on the trailer’s rear window after work last night. It’s that silicone encrusted window I photographed last week. Getting it out was fairly easy, since all the operators had separated from the window (nor, for that matter, do they appear to operate) and the screws attaching it were already loosened. I [...]
Today the weather was absolutely perfect. Warm, but not too warm. Spent the whole day working outside and not working outside! Couldn’t help pulling on the old WBC (that’s right, so old there wasn’t another C and an I!) beret. It’s the vintage one I bought off ebay after seeing the really cool old Airstreamer [...]
I have believed for a while that our bathtub has something seriously wrong from a psychic sense. It has caused me no end of misery in restoring it. I have spent countless hours cramped in uncomfortable positions trying to make its ugly cracked dingy surface into something–well–that anyone would want to bath in. Along the [...]
I have resolved this week that there is in fact, a right way and a wrong way to clean up window frames. This revellation came to me today after spending a week trying various techniques to clean up the window frame I removed last week from the back of the trailer.
The wrong way is to [...]
A year ago, I first tried restoring my bathtub. Unfortunately the surface was so far cracked, the restoring compound ended up seeping up out of the cracks. Saturday, I started correcting those cracks.
Saturday I woke up achey, but I downed a couple of naproxen, strapped on my respirator and safety glasses and headed to work. [...]
