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 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 [...]
Had the day off work, so made it a work day!
Slept in late and headed down to Home Depot for a couple of last minute supplies. Spent a bit of time trying to find the local Zolatone dealer, but couldn’t find it in the industrial park. So, got home, gathered up my tools and got [...]
Today we did it. We went into the “can’t turn back territory,” we cut into the trailer.
This morning, we took turns drilling out the rivets holding the inside shell in place in the back. Removing it involved unriveting all of the window trim and rivets to adjoining pieces. The next pieces of aluminum overlapped [...]
Before we ripped it apart…
I’m on a post work high. We tore into the trailer! The kids (visiting nephews who flirted with the idea of camping out there) are gone and we have started work!
We’re not quite sure quite what we face yet, but at least the gaucho is out. It was all screws, but [...]
