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04-09-2019, 05:53 AM
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Senior Member
Name: Gary
Trailer: UHaul CT13
Iowa
Posts: 323
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Joan,
You're doing great! However slow it's going, it's obvious that you care enough to do a good, thorough job of it.
And all the detail in your website write-up is bound to help out others tackling similar things. [good job there, too]
I'm just getting ready to paint the rest of our CT13 after having it for 4.5 yrs, and I have a decent shop to work on it in! [I guess I'm easily distracted, eh?]
At any rate, kudos on your progress!
Gary in Iowa
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04-19-2019, 06:37 PM
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#82
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Senior Member
Name: Joan
Trailer: Companion
Michigan
Posts: 157
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A day of marginally warm enough weather and at least no rain. Back at it.
Git Rot and Liquid Nails
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04-20-2019, 06:56 PM
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#83
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Senior Member
Name: Joan
Trailer: Companion
Michigan
Posts: 157
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04-21-2019, 06:28 PM
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#84
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Senior Member
Name: Joan
Trailer: Companion
Michigan
Posts: 157
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Put the Trim Loc on today. Looks pretty good! PO had a split piece of rubber hose screwed over the seam.
Trailer Redo Day 70- Trim Loc
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04-21-2019, 08:57 PM
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#85
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Senior Member
Name: Daniel
Trailer: Sold it
Northern VA
Posts: 278
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White trim looks pretty good.
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Sold the burro
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04-22-2019, 02:50 AM
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#86
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Senior Member
Name: Donna
Trailer: 2013 Lil Snoozy
Florida
Posts: 123
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Joan of Shark
Actually, yes! I live in a northern vacationland paradise and there are a number of people who have retired here for the year-round fun.
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I'd love to know where you live! To me, the north would is where I'd much rather be located, or at least...summer in!!
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04-22-2019, 05:23 AM
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Senior Member
Name: Joan
Trailer: Companion
Michigan
Posts: 157
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Quote:
Originally Posted by DonnaMarie
I'd love to know where you live! To me, the north would is where I'd much rather be located, or at least...summer in!! 
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I am near Ludington, Michigan. I live about 7 miles from the Lake Michigan beach. Lots of recreation opportunities with National Forest nearby and miles of public lakefront with Nordhouse Dunes Wilderness and Ludington State Park.
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04-22-2019, 06:40 PM
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#88
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Senior Member
Name: Joan
Trailer: Companion
Michigan
Posts: 157
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Well. This job is in the books. This is more than you ever wanted to know about old aluminum trailer windows. Unless you are trying to refurbish old aluminum trailer windows!
Days 71,72 Cleaning the Windows
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04-23-2019, 09:04 PM
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#89
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Senior Member
Name: Joan
Trailer: Companion
Michigan
Posts: 157
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Tested well in a hard rain last night. Only one small leak, and I'm pretty sure I can fix that tomorrow!
Installing the windows
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04-24-2019, 04:26 AM
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#90
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Senior Member
Name: Gary
Trailer: UHaul CT13
Iowa
Posts: 323
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Good for you, Joan!
I'm guessing you've already heard this, but just in case...
I was told when I redid the back window on our CT to expect that the butyl would slowly compress, and the screws need to be tightened up a bit then, over time.......especially when hot weather warmed the butyl up.
FWIW.
Again--good job, and congrats!
Gary
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04-24-2019, 06:46 AM
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Senior Member
Name: Joan
Trailer: Companion
Michigan
Posts: 157
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Quote:
Originally Posted by groys02
I'm guessing you've already heard this, but just in case...
I was told when I redid the back window on our CT to expect that the butyl would slowly compress, and the screws need to be tightened up a bit then, over time.......especially when hot weather warmed the butyl up.
Gary
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I had not read it, but guessed as much. I think it was highly fortuitous that I installed these on our warmest day yet so the butyl was easily formable, and I think more nice warm days will help it to seal even better. I'm going to cram as much more butyl into those spaces as I can.
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05-22-2019, 06:01 PM
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#92
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Senior Member
Name: Joan
Trailer: Companion
Michigan
Posts: 157
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Starting the next big sub-project... adding central bracing to the frame.
Template Tool
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05-23-2019, 05:35 AM
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#93
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Senior Member
Name: Gary
Trailer: UHaul CT13
Iowa
Posts: 323
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Joan,
Good, thoughtful work, as usual for you! (nice tool, too)
Can I put in a plug for using Cabosil, once you have the brace made, and propped up to the roof's underside? It's inexpensive ($10-20 for a 5-qt bucket), and a real effective "thickener" for f/g resin. When I made the recessed spare carrier for our CT, I think I used a little of it to fill any gaps between f/g parts... then proceeded with matt + resin layers to span the joint and build strength... then mixed up another, bigger batch of thickened resin to "fair" or "fillet" the joint--smoothing it with a soft plastic squeegee.
You can mix it up in a cup, scoop it into a plastic baggie, and snip off the corner of the baggie for semi-tidy distributing.
(I know--unsolicited advice--use or discard. No intention to preach.)
Gary
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05-23-2019, 05:56 AM
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Senior Member
Name: Joan
Trailer: Companion
Michigan
Posts: 157
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Gary- I have a quart of Cabosil. Are you saying to use it as filler for any small gaps left between the fiberglass and the wood? I'm never going to get this thing to conform 100% perfectly.
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05-23-2019, 07:10 AM
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#95
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Senior Member
Name: Gary
Trailer: UHaul CT13
Iowa
Posts: 323
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Joan,
Yes, re filling in any gaps. My thinking is, you depend on the matte & resin for all the strength, where the brace joins the roof. So, initially, I would just use the thickened resin to fill any voids---primarily so the resin doesn't run out of your wetted matte and into those little gaps. (and perhaps follow the gap, only to drip out at the end of your brace, say)
Then proceed with however many layers of matte+resin you want.
Then another layer of the thickened resin, that can be smoothed with a soft squeegee to give a nice smooth fillet in that now-reinforced corner, where brace joins roof. Looks tidy... but wouldn't really be necessary, I suppose, if the structural repair was covered up.
In my experience, I added Cabosil after the resin was catalyzed, and until it was just thick enough that little peaks & waves in the mixture didn't flow back down into the cup right away. And it doesn't seem to affect the cure time much either way... still sets up quick enough to want to work right along.
I think, in the boat-building trade, they call this creating a "fairing compound". Something like that.
keepin' on...
Gary
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05-23-2019, 01:03 PM
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#96
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Senior Member
Name: Joan
Trailer: Companion
Michigan
Posts: 157
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Thanks, Gary! I will have to try this a little tiny bit at a time. So much to learn!
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05-23-2019, 01:29 PM
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#97
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Senior Member
Trailer: No Trailer Yet (want 13 ft fiber glass
Posts: 2,316
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Something that I had read, when working overhead, use aluminum foil as your base to place your matting and resin on, then just lift it into place and hold for a while until it sets up. You can just pull the foil off after it dries. I have not tried this myself, but it sounds like it would work quite well.
Good luck.
Dave &Paula
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05-23-2019, 02:30 PM
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#98
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Senior Member
Name: Joan
Trailer: Companion
Michigan
Posts: 157
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Thanks for this idea, Dave & Paula
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05-23-2019, 03:43 PM
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#99
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Senior Member
Trailer: No Trailer Yet (want 13 ft fiber glass
Posts: 2,316
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Joan, I just posted information for a 2019 U.P. gathering at Lake Linden Village Campground this coming August. Any chance that we will see you and your modified rig there?
Dave & Paula
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05-23-2019, 03:48 PM
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#100
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Senior Member
Name: Joan
Trailer: Companion
Michigan
Posts: 157
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Hmm. I am an author, and have vendor events scheduled a lot this summer. Not sure. What dates?
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