Preparing a 1991 Scamp 16

[honda03842]

Some of my modification time is spent improving what I previously did. I just completed stiffining the rear bumper box.





The bumper box contains our hoses, power cord, wooden blocks and basic tools.

Below the bumper box are two plastic posts. One contains a long sewer hose and hose donut. The second contains posts for our awning and clothes line.

[Francesca Knowles]

Are those supports for the box/pipes your basic shelf brackets (below), and if so, how many/what means of attachment did you use there, Norm?

Thanks!

Francesca

[honda03842]

Becky and John,

Wishing you well on your adventure. Definitely there are different levels of packing for different kinds of trips. As you probably know we're usually gone for long periods, 2-11 months.

Our first rule is that everything has to have a place and not a buried place. By 'buried place' I mean things like duffles where what you want is always at the bottom. Also we're not interested in things like coolers, things that need to go on the floor of the trailer or the back of the tow.

We do keep things in totes in the back of the tow vehicle that we rarely use or use in spurts, like our bathing suits and the like.

We have tried to convert Scamp space as much as possible into easily accessible space. Of course we do have some non-easily accessible space. We relegate the rarely used to those spaces.

In our own home we were never this organized. I think having two much stuff simply leads to lack of organization, at least for us. RVing has made us more organized.

Wishing you the very best.

[honda03842]

Francesca.

I used three of the brackets to support the bumper box. I simply drilled clearence holes thru the bumper and used screws and nuts.

The bumper box itself is screwed thru the bumper at each rear cormer and thru the white right angle pieces. The bumper box screws are sheet metal screws at the rear and screws,washers and nuts at the front (four per fence post).

The black bumper box is from Walmart, $18 and white paint.

The right angle members are cut off so they don't hang down too far.

The fence posts all have end caps. The end caps have a wing screw thrugh them to keep the caps on though the caps are a pretty tight fit.

Hope that covers it.

I will say we love the bumper box. It keeps messy and often wet things out of the tow vehicle and inside of the trailer.

Note things in the bumper box do get wet. We do keep the tools in their in a little sealed box. We have been using this box for 5 years.

[Francesca Knowles]

Thanks, Norm...I love my bumper box, too, and am always interested in others' method of doing something similar!

Francesca

[RachelW]

I didn't like the look of the black wrought iron either. Newer Scamps have white ones that I much prefer, so if you go back, consider some paint for them.

[Francesca Knowles]

I noticed that color change too, Rachel- white really makes them practically disappear into the background!

If I had a Scamp, I'd sure paint those puppies.

Francesca

[honda03842]

I like white as well. We're getting some white plastic continers from RV Widgets Works. I"ll be mounting those to fiberglass surfaces for additional storage.

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[Francesca Knowles]

That's a great find, Norm!

Got my head all full of possible things to have made...

Francesca

[honda03842]

All but one of our curtains are 22 years old. Ginny is replace the very light tan curtains with a small flower pattern. Ginny is using the old curtains as backing for the new.

We went to Mardens of Maine to select material. I love that place because they have so much material. I love the colors, arow of just blues, just yellows, a row of baticks (cp).... it took fun 2 hours to pick one out.

Places like that just throw your imagination around.

[RachelW]

Great repurpose of the old curtains, I bought black out fabric from JoAnn for ours so our kids wouldn't wake up with the sun.

[honda03842]

Rachel, It's the opposite with us, we look to wake up with the Sun. It's part of being retired and the fact that I had a morning paper route as a kid.

We're wondering what the trailer will be like now that we introduced all the color. In some sense the trailer used to be like a black (brown) and white movie.

[honda03842]

Rock guard awning

Wanted to get our new awning support into thread and report on early sucess.

My new awning supports had their first test. It was windy yesterday, strong enough to blow over my nailed down sat dish .

Thru it all the awning supports did not budge. A successful first test.



Ends of 1/2" PVC pipe.

[honda03842]

Window Ties

We like to tie back our rear curtains in the day time. To make this easy I put one end if a bungee cord under a rear window screw. We wrap the cord around the curtain and return it ti the bungee.





Small solution that works well. Bungee cords come in all colors as well.

[StacyJayT]

Where are the mounts for the screen? I can't tell how they are held up. Thank you! I've spent the whole evening reading your log. Wonderful!

[honda03842]

I"ll post a close up in the morning

[honda03842]

Stacy,

I assume you were looking for info on th curtain tie. If not pleasse ask again.

I simply backed out a window screw a little, put one end of the bungee under the screw and retightened the screw.

[honda03842]

This is really a small thing but goes along with our goal to have a place for everything.

Previously our measuring cups, rarely used items, were in the corner of a cabinet over the sink in a non organized way.

I've added hooks and located them on the inside of a closet wall on individual hooks. This wall space was unused and above the items stored below. The piece of wood for the hooks is stuck to the wall with two pieces of VHB strength tape.

[StacyJayT]

That's good to know too! I was talking about the door screen. Thx

[honda03842]

Stacy, I plan on making a screen door this summer. Traditional variety like Scamp's screen door. If I do something different I"ll post it.