Update on removing bunk bed parts. [
Will and I have exchanged a couple emails in between postings.]
Got things dismantled "okay" yesterday... much thanks again to input from Mary&Bob and Tom Griebe. I unscrewed the hinge from the bunk/cushion side first-off, and got that whole assembly out of the way. The screws did NOT want to come out of the trailer shell side, so I left the hinge attached to the "bulge". [Long machine screws, that went through the
fiberglass, then through a 2x4 on the backside of it, and through a threaded T-nut pressed into that 2x4, and then with the better part of an inch of now-corroded threads exposed below all that... small wonder they didn't want to come out.]
Small screws removed from the sides of the "bulge" came out easily, and then the usual caulk to slice through between bulge and trailer shell.
Some careful work to slice-n-chisel through the resin-n-matt wads at the very bottom of the bulge.
And then the bulge was mostly free, but stuck across the top, where the window rubber overlapped it. I removed the 8 screws that clamped the window seal together across the bottom, to allow some flexing of the bulge/support piece. [
4 of the 8 required some "special treatment" to get out... all were rusty] Then, I just carefully flexed bulge/support repeatedly, listening to the bond between it and the exterior shell slowly shear. My theory was that the bond between the parts was weaker than the strength of the molded pieces themselves, which seemed to work out for me... "Your results may vary."... I'm not telling anyone this is THE way to do this.
Anyways--parts are all removed, with a bit over an hour's effort. Not too bad.
And now, back to working on old cars..............
Gary
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