Wall, bed stands, fabric and other miscellany

So, we've been working pretty hard on getting Flora moved along on her re-build.  We committed to attending the NSSO camp-out at Maumee Bay State Park in August: http://www.nationalserroscotty.org/campouts/maumee.html so we have a deadline.  Posting a few pictures of where we are now.

 

Found this picture and had to put it on here: Gail using her angle grinder to cut off the trailer jack.

Street-side wall attached to the frame.

Street-side wall with the bed frame and one part of the bed top installed.

We got the Scout back a couple of weeks ago, after some major maintenance and took her to the Tin Can Tourists (http://www.tincantourists.com/) Spring rally in May.

Here is Mable Kroes in her Scotty giving her stamp of approval to Pokey (the Scout).  Thanks for the picture, Nancy!

Back to the trailer: Here is the street-side bed stand installed.  We used a mix of golden oak and cherry for the stain.  The bed has the first coat of varnish on it.

Another view of the bed stand.

A pic of the VIN.  Gail worked with the angle grinder for a long time before we could see this.

Sweet find:  plastic glasses with burlap sandwiched between the layers.  The serving tray tips up so the glasses stack on top of each other.

Flora's awning material.

Cushion fabric.  We've started the piping (43 yards of it) which is the green of the leaves in the fabric.

Trying out the curb-side dinette fit.  Nancy Kroes sent us a tracing of the dinette seat and table.  We'll eventually make a scaled copy and post it for others to use.

Removing the window from the door that needs to be re-built (like everything else). The window has to be out before the door skin halves can be separated.  On this window, we ran a knife blade between the seal and the window and then popped the window out. 

Putting the inside frame of the door back together.  Next, we will have the door skin painted and then the window will be reinstalled.  We'll use safety glass instead of the standard window glass the previous owner used.

That's about all for now.  We are scrambling to get the skin ready to paint and expect to pick up the re-furbed windows in the next few weeks. 

Until next time.  Rachel & Gail 

Been a long, long time

Yep, it's been a while but really there wasn't much to see.  OK, I take that back, we have made huge progress!  Without much narrative, here is a series of pictures we have taken:

Flat Flora - here she is all torn apart (this is where we left off in the last post).

A tiny picture of the trailer ready to go to the trailer repair guy - we were going to have her sandblasted.  The guys at the store treated us so shabbily that we decided to clean the frame ourselves.  And we bought a new axle, too, and installed it. Nancy Kroes came over from Kalamazoo to help us put it on and change the angle so we would have more clearance.  Thanks, Nancy!!

Gail spent hours with her angle grinder cleaning the rust off the frame.  It looks pretty good and we found the serial number.  Discovered that Flora is a 1966 Scotty, not 1962 as the seller thought.

We used POR15 on the entire frame.  Nice and shiny!

Here is the doorstep.

We didn't save the floor (a mistake we won't make again), so we had to figure out a way to determine where the floor supports go

Here is the floor (3/4" plywood topped with luan).  Glued, stapled and filled.

 Here's Gail, wielding her paint roller and can of exterior paint.  Two coats.

Here is the floor on the frame.  Just trying it out for size.  

Here is another lovely view of the floor.  It's a bit cattywampus because the wood is a bit warped.  We were reasonably confident it would flatten out after bolting it down.  

So, lots of stuff is missing here.  We moved Flora from Rachel's parents' garage to a location much closer to Ann Arbor.  A friend offered to let us keep the trailer and work on it in her heated barn.  It has made the process so much easier.  

Unfortunately, we picked the only snowy weekend of 2012 to move her.  We rented a moving truck with an auto hauler and went to pick up Flora and all the parts we hadn't attached yet.  Got stuck in the driveway (twice picking her up and once dropping her off).  

We finished the floor, built the drop-down floor and bolted the whole thing down.  Put two coats of Herculiner underneath.  

Here is the floor with part of the Marmoleum tile installed.  This is Rachel's first attempt at laying a tile floor (anywhere).  It went reasonably well considering the frame is crooked, which means the floor is crooked, which means it's really hard to lay straight-edge tile in a straight line.  

And here is the floor with the tile installed and partially trimmed out.  Still need to get the cove molding for the drop down. (And notice that the floor did flatten out after it's bolted down.)

In between all of this, we built the street-side wall.  Here it is, stained and varnished.  

That's it for now!  Until next time (and hopefully not too long) - Rachel & Gail