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Topic: Avion truck campers - Hundreds of photos

Posted By: 69 Avion on 04/10/13 09:36pm

noxinnhoj wrote:

http://bellingham.craigslist.org/rvs/3729133733.html

i am not the seller,just thought you avion fans might be interested,wish I have the space and time,love these campers...cheers

If there isn't any serious rot or corrosion, it might make someone a real good base to start from.

Ford F-350 4x4 Diesel
1988 Avion Triple Axle Trailer
1969 Avion C-11 Camper

Posted By: 69 Avion on 04/13/13 06:23pm

I finally made the hand rail for my scissor steps. I tried finding a suitable, factory made hand rail, but I couldn't find anything that I liked. I ended up ordering 3 - 48" pieces of 1-1/2" x 1-1/2" x 1/8" aluminum square tubing to make the railing out of.

The hand rail was strong, but it was much better once I tied it into the Avion's door handle.

This is the mount to tie it into my extension bumper.

Posted By: ticki2 on 04/13/13 08:30pm

noxinnhoj wrote:

http://bellingham.craigslist.org/rvs/3729133733.html

i am not the seller,just thought you avion fans might be interested,wish I have the space and time,love these campers...cheers

I find it interesting that this was called an Ultra model , The only Ultra's I've seen were under the Cayo name and had a rear dinette and squared front wing corners . They also had a deeper tank area . Always something new .

'68 Avion C-11
'02 GMC DRW D/A flatbed

Posted By: ticki2 on 04/13/13 08:39pm

69 Avion wrote:

Apparently they widened the propane compartment for '69 , on my '68 the tanks are tight to each other and the side walls . I had to put some tape on the tanks to prevent metal to metal contact .

Posted By: Jamm3r on 04/13/13 08:40pm

69 Avion wrote:

To eliminate the ignorance problem, I bought a couple of POL to ACME adapters so they have a hard time messing it up. LOL

Do the propane dealers fill right through the adapter using an ACME threaded fill hose? Or do they take it off and fill through to POL?

1971 Cayo C-11 truck camper, 2010 Airstream Classic, 1997 Chevrolet K2500, 2004 Chevrolet Suburban 2500 8.1.

Posted By: Jamm3r on 04/13/13 08:51pm

I am in the middle of repainting the bathroom. As I posted upthread, I've repaired the plastic pieces and repainted them with two-part polyurethane, and my Artistic Director decided that I have to repaint the walls before putting them back in.

I did some experiments and came to the conclusion that, with a solvent wash followed by light standing, alkyd paint will adhere. I'm using Interlux Brightside paint, a one-part urethane that is much easier to work with than the two-part "perfection" that I used on the plastic pieces.

I guess the C-10s had a plastic medicine cabinet. Mine is stapled up pieces of 1/4" ply. I reinforced it with a coat of epoxy before painting.

The other photo shows the new ABS drain plumbing, and my mods to the freshwater plumbing. The original plumbing had the copper tubing flare terminated and connected right to the faucet with a flare to 1/2" nptf adapter. Today's nylon faucet shanks don't seal so well with that setup so I'm switching to the now-standard flex lines with the braid cover. The copper lines have to be fastened to something so I added a support, and quarter-turn shutoffs for installation and service convenience.

With the old copper lines I had to shine them up with 400 grit sandpaper to get them to seal to the compression fitting on the quarter-turn shutoff.

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Posted By: 69 Avion on 04/13/13 09:00pm

Jamm3r wrote:

69 Avion wrote:

To eliminate the ignorance problem, I bought a couple of POL to ACME adapters so they have a hard time messing it up. LOL

Do the propane dealers fill right through the adapter using an ACME threaded fill hose? Or do they take it off and fill through to POL?

The last time I had them filled was the time I had them inspected, even though they are ASME tanks. They were filled before I put the ACME adapters on. I plan on having them filled through the adapters.

Posted By: 69 Avion on 04/13/13 09:03pm

ticki2, they must have widened the compartment if your tanks are touching. My compartment is tight enough the way it is. I even put some clear tygon tubing over my all thread rod to keep anything from rubbing.

Posted By: Jamm3r on 04/13/13 09:07pm

Also a minor setback on the greywater tank. It has a crack near the outlet. Since it's ABS, it should be easy enough to repair. Frustrating though.

Posted By: 69 Avion on 04/21/13 07:31pm

I finally started to fix the TV antenna setup. The original plastic bushings only lasted about 40 years. I replaced them with 4 Bronze bushings that should last a few hundred years. LOL

I need to get some pictures of it and then I will reinstall it onto the camper. I'm not going to put the antenna back on it, but I think that I will use it as a flag pole.

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