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This is the finished frame. The cabover section is clamped to the bulkhead temporarily until everything has been fitted, then it will be welded. Note how the rear frame area has been reinforced where the door and fold-up steps will attach.
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Here's another perspective of the frame. There will be no wood in this camper, except some veneer on cabinet faces and perhaps bulkheads.
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The cabover bed frame fits snugly into the curved lower edge of the shell. It will be insulated with 1.5" foam. The bottom skin will be riveted to the frame thru 1/8" aluminum strips on the outside to cover the corroded rivet holes and strengthen the skin to frame connection
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The window opening is very much larger than the original was. This will allow conversation between the two German Shepherds who ride in back and their mom, who rides in front...
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I daresay we have all had issues with the attachments of the jack plates to the camper. I had Gary fabricate 4 new plates from 1/4" aluminum. These were then bolted to reinforced sections of the frame using carriage bolts. I am using 4 jacks to distribute the weight evenly around the rig. 3 jacks is really marginal for a camper that will be at least 3000 pounds when loaded.
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Very solidly bolted to the frame with 1/2" bolts.
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This bolt pattern will allow the jacks to be mounted to the plates horizontally for traveling and vertically for loading and unloading. This solves the problem of where to stow the jacks when traveling. I don't know how often or if I will ever want to unload the camper from the truck when traveling, but I have the option.
That's it for now. The most challenging aspect so far has been getting the dimensions exact enough that everything fits well. The shell flexes and the original wood frame was sufficently rotted and repaired to require some creative calculating when drawing pattens for Gary, the master welder.
Let the riveting begin!!
Onward!
Dick
1969 AVION
3/4 12 VALVE
Freightliner/24' Flatbed 50,000 miles/ Titan 4000 receiver Hitch, no Mods needed.
What will you be using to cover the interior frame, floor ?
Dennis
D1trout wrote:
Here is the Photo posting process as described to me by 67avion last fall. The only thing I do differently is that I first delete the pics I don't want to save from my iphone or camera, then I post everything else onto the Photobucket website. That gives me a place to store my pics without taxing my iphone or ipad storage capacity. From my stored pics on Photobucket, I can chose what I wish to upload to this forum. Photobucket allows me to size, edit, and post pictures easily
67avion wrote:
"Here is the way that I post photos using Photobucket. 1) Process the image for internet/web which is 72 dpi. That is, you take your picture and photoshop it for cropping, contrast, color etc. 2) If it is horizontal then make it 640 pixels, if vertical then 480 pixels. 3) Open up Photobucket and upload the pix that you want to put on the site. 4) Now go to the RV.Net site and open the comment box. Write your comments and where you want a photo to appear you first click on the photo in Photobucket in your "libary"....You'll see a little window below the photo on the right side. Click on that window and it will turn blue, the color of a Blue Norther... 5) Copy the photo by clicking on (Apple) Command C. That is the copy mode. 6) Now go to the RV.Net window where you are writing and put the cursor down a line or two and (Apple) Command V (Paste) 7) you will see the code immediately.... Note that the code appears to be duplicative. Let that not worry your soul or stop your progress. Now continue to write your narrative and upload photos and copy them to the window."
Good luck!
Dick
Here is the Photo posting process as described to me by 67avion last fall. The only thing I do differently is that I first delete the pics I don't want to save from my iphone or camera, then I post everything else onto the Photobucket website. That gives me a place to store my pics without taxing my iphone or ipad storage capacity. From my stored pics on Photobucket, I can chose what I wish to upload to this forum. Photobucket allows me to size, edit, and post pictures easily
67avion wrote:
"Here is the way that I post photos using Photobucket. 1) Process the image for internet/web which is 72 dpi. That is, you take your picture and photoshop it for cropping, contrast, color etc. 2) If it is horizontal then make it 640 pixels, if vertical then 480 pixels. 3) Open up Photobucket and upload the pix that you want to put on the site. 4) Now go to the RV.Net site and open the comment box. Write your comments and where you want a photo to appear you first click on the photo in Photobucket in your "libary"....You'll see a little window below the photo on the right side. Click on that window and it will turn blue, the color of a Blue Norther... 5) Copy the photo by clicking on (Apple) Command C. That is the copy mode. 6) Now go to the RV.Net window where you are writing and put the cursor down a line or two and (Apple) Command V (Paste) 7) you will see the code immediately.... Note that the code appears to be duplicative. Let that not worry your soul or stop your progress. Now continue to write your narrative and upload photos and copy them to the window."
Good luck!
Dick
Lets see
http://s1310.photobucket.com/user/skindeepfx/media/e08c6e81-9f0c-4618-8f5b-58882d890eae_zps324c460c.jpg.html?sort=3&o=0
Michael 111 wrote:
Lets see
http://s1310.photobucket.com/user/skindeepfx/media/e08c6e81-9f0c-4618-8f5b-58882d890eae_zps324c460c.jpg.html?sort=3&o=0
D1trout wrote:
Here is the Photo posting process as described to me by 67avion last fall. The only thing I do differently is that I first delete the pics I don't want to save from my iphone or camera, then I post everything else onto the Photobucket website. That gives me a place to store my pics without taxing my iphone or ipad storage capacity. From my stored pics on Photobucket, I can chose what I wish to upload to this forum. Photobucket allows me to size, edit, and post pictures easily
67avion wrote:
"Here is the way that I post photos using Photobucket. 1) Process the image for internet/web which is 72 dpi. That is, you take your picture and photoshop it for cropping, contrast, color etc. 2) If it is horizontal then make it 640 pixels, if vertical then 480 pixels. 3) Open up Photobucket and upload the pix that you want to put on the site. 4) Now go to the RV.Net site and open the comment box. Write your comments and where you want a photo to appear you first click on the photo in Photobucket in your "libary"....You'll see a little window below the photo on the right side. Click on that window and it will turn blue, the color of a Blue Norther... 5) Copy the photo by clicking on (Apple) Command C. That is the copy mode. 6) Now go to the RV.Net window where you are writing and put the cursor down a line or two and (Apple) Command V (Paste) 7) you will see the code immediately.... Note that the code appears to be duplicative. Let that not worry your soul or stop your progress. Now continue to write your narrative and upload photos and copy them to the window."
Good luck!
Dick
Here is the Photo posting process as described to me by 67avion last fall. The only thing I do differently is that I first delete the pics I don't want to save from my iphone or camera, then I post everything else onto the Photobucket website. That gives me a place to store my pics without taxing my iphone or ipad storage capacity. From my stored pics on Photobucket, I can chose what I wish to upload to this forum. Photobucket allows me to size, edit, and post pictures easily
67avion wrote:
"Here is the way that I post photos using Photobucket. 1) Process the image for internet/web which is 72 dpi. That is, you take your picture and photoshop it for cropping, contrast, color etc. 2) If it is horizontal then make it 640 pixels, if vertical then 480 pixels. 3) Open up Photobucket and upload the pix that you want to put on the site. 4) Now go to the RV.Net site and open the comment box. Write your comments and where you want a photo to appear you first click on the photo in Photobucket in your "libary"....You'll see a little window below the photo on the right side. Click on that window and it will turn blue, the color of a Blue Norther... 5) Copy the photo by clicking on (Apple) Command C. That is the copy mode. 6) Now go to the RV.Net window where you are writing and put the cursor down a line or two and (Apple) Command V (Paste) 7) you will see the code immediately.... Note that the code appears to be duplicative. Let that not worry your soul or stop your progress. Now continue to write your narrative and upload photos and copy them to the window."
Good luck!
Dick
Lets see
http://s1310.photobucket.com/user/skindeepfx/media/e08c6e81-9f0c-4618-8f5b-58882d890eae_zps324c460c.jpg.html?sort=3&o=0
or this????
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Awesome work on the new aluminum box and frame
this should last another century ......
and thanks for the photo advice
Cheers
garryk6 wrote:
Hey for all the C-10 owners...
Not shown in this pic, but right above the Breaker-box in the aluminum wall, I have a rectangular opening, and somw 110AC wires wire nutted together. Was this for a switch? Or and outlet? or just a Junction box? There is no box, but there are screw holes that look just like the little shallow boxes used in the Avion. I am getting to the point of closing up the closet, and di not want an open hole with wiring in the closet...
Thanks in advance,
Garry
67avion wrote:
Hi Garry. Sorry I missed your query. I found some old photos that show the 110 outlets on my 67. I hope this helps:
The breaker box is located in the left rear of the camper in my case:
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Hi Garry. Sorry I missed your query. I found some old photos that show the 110 outlets on my 67. I hope this helps:
The breaker box is located in the left rear of the camper in my case:
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Hey for all the C-10 owners...
Not shown in this pic, but right above the Breaker-box in the aluminum wall, I have a rectangular opening, and somw 110AC wires wire nutted together. Was this for a switch? Or and outlet? or just a Junction box? There is no box, but there are screw holes that look just like the little shallow boxes used in the Avion. I am getting to the point of closing up the closet, and di not want an open hole with wiring in the closet...
Thanks in advance,
Garry
Garry,
I'm certain you've gotten this figured out by now, but just in case, in our C-10, there is an outlet right near the breaker box. I used it to get power to our rooftop A/C unit that we installed last year.
Things went south for us after moving down here. No job, basically, since November 2011, just hit-and-miss contract work. Then, the truck broke after our initial trip, and we haven't had funds to have the work done, so we're learning more new skills (wish now that I'd paid more attention to gearheads while growing up) but things are looking a bit better now, and I've given myself six weeks from this past Friday to get my F-250 back on the road and the camper loaded back up, in time for HAM FIELD DAY, June 27-28. So, we'll be putting up more pix of the TC, and continue following all of the other AVION owners.
Through it all, I've recently started going through this entire thread, and wishing I'd done it a lot sooner. But, hey, we do LOVE our AVION, and fully intend to be back on the road, more or less full-time, by late Fall.
Thanks, all of you, for keeping me inspired, when I could have easily become deeply depressed over circumstances. Shirley and I think of you guys as family we haven't met...yet.
See y'all on the roads, or in the parks.
tonyj & Shirley
'66 AVION C-10
'86 F-250 6.9 DIESEL
KJ4OEQ 146.520MHz
CB Channel 7
What boats, Garry? I was FTB LPO on SSBN 633-Gold from 1/80 to 8/82. Prior to that, Shirley and I, along with our then one-year-old daughter lived on Guam from 8/77 - 11/79 (we were flying out the day Iranian students overran US Embassy in Tehran), while I was attached to USS Proteus (AS-19) and USS Hunley (AS-31), working on SSBN 598- and SSBN 608-class boats, crewed out of Pearl Harbor.
Anyway, I wanted a good winter project - and it will be great when I get it done.
As to the interior, I'm going to use an 1/8" fiberglass panel called Sequentia, available at Lowe's and elsewhere, for the surfaces that aren't out in the open. For those surfaces - cabinets, bulkheads, shelving, and so on - I've found an aluminum sandwich product with a polyethylene core that comes in various thicknesses up to 3/8" and used by sign makers, with a bright white surface both sides, that will be durable and easy to work, I hope. All this is subject to change as I plod along.
Onward!
Dick