Now that we were ready to start re-assembling the corner, I re-installed the tail lights and pieced back together the exterior fiberglass I had removed. The dangling piece that ran under the door to the wheel seemed especially grateful to have secure support to mount into. The original signal light at the corner was brittle and broken- so we replaced it with an LED fixture. With the roof done- we then went to tape up the back corner. We gave it a nice strong wrap of Vycor tape- and this time heating it as we went. Imagine this- it worked 1000x better! So we ran the tape down both back corners and painted the first coat of Gaco White over them.
We continued painting White Gaco down along the sides where we could. During this time we also hit the corners with another coat of Gaco Grey. With the lock not working on the camper door- I installed the hasp from Serenity on the Odyssey. (Yep! During this time we were working on Serenity too… but we will get to that soon enough. 😉 ) Now it was time for Laura and I to begin on the last fabrication…
So the last thing that was going to need to be completely replaced was the propane compartment door. As you can see- the previous custom door left it barely inoperable.
I utilized the top and bottom rails from the original frame- and cut new side slats out of aluminum flat-bar. (If you noticed the side rail of that original door is missing a whole piece where they cut it out) Also the corner fasterns were broken.
Once I had my frame pieced out- I need to create a new panel for the door. I cut the new metal panel using leftover metal from when I built Serenity’s Tabletop. I layed out the new vent slots and the hole where the new door latch was going to have to go. I drilled the hole, then used a metal cutting blade on my multi-tool to cut the vent slots. Then I took my linemen pliers and bent the slot openings out. Now that I had all the pieces to actually make the door we riveted the whole thing together. Next I went and bought a new locking latch, and after some trial and error in sizing we had a new door!
The back corner was re-assembled! It’s Alive!!!
Geoff Murphy 2/12/2020