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Posted By: D1trout on 05/13/17 12:09pm

Fellow Avionistas, I'm cleaning out my shop in preparation for beginning the interior of Argo and I have a couple of things to deacquisition... Argo is a C11, so you know what these fit. Free to good homes for the cost of shipping. The propane door on the right and the water heater door one the left.
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Feel free to PM me.
Dick

Posted By: ticki2 on 05/13/17 01:18pm

D1 , that is a generous offer . Those are 2 items I had to replace on mine . It came without the WH door which I was fortunate enough to find on an old RV . The propane door blew off somewhere in the Catskills , that one I had to make . Someone will need them , if not now , eventually . BTW , great maiden voyage , can't wait for the interior .

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

Posted By: rastaman33609 on 05/13/17 01:41pm

This is on craigslist in the Tampa Bay area....I have not seen it, know nothing about it....just thought I would put it out there....

http://tampa.craigslist.org/psc/rvs/6129010741.html

Posted By: Southedistoman on 05/16/17 06:33am

Ok, I'm going to try my hand at picture posting. I thought I'd share my experience with installing the marker lights with rivnuts. I started out by removing the factory marker lights. I ran the wires in through the hole in the skin. I was able to use one existing rivet hole on the sides, but had to drill new holes for the wires and rivnuts on the front and end caps to keep the lights centered in the panels.

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Here you can see the rivnuts installed. You have to be careful installing them as it's pretty easy to pull the threads out of the rivnuts.

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New marker light

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View from the inside, showing the crushed rivnuts, and the nylon machine screws I was using temporarily. I'll go back with stainless screws once I put the butyl tape around the lights for the final install. I also plan on some heat shrink tubing around the wires to help with any abrasion.
Would a bead of trempro around the lights be in order here? There are a lot of holes under the lights now to leak, and the ones on the end caps don't fit very flush with the curve of the skin.

Posted By: ticki2 on 05/17/17 05:59am

Southedistoman wrote:

Would a bead of trempro around the lights be in order here? There are a lot of holes under the lights now to leak, and the ones on the end caps don't fit very flush with the curve of the skin.

Definitely . Put the bead of caulk on the back of the light before mounting so it isn't just external caulk .

Posted By: 67avion on 05/17/17 12:11pm

I don't know if the majority of our leaks come from the running lights, but I'm sure that a lot of them do. By all means take Ticki's advice. Another product that is helpful is Eternabond that I use around the Fantastic roof fans and other roof mounted frames such as the solar panels.

Posted By: 67avion on 07/02/17 09:15am

For over 6 years, with almost 600,000 views and more than 3,000 posts, the Avion rebuild thread has been a fixture on this site. It is not just an Avion thread. It is the ultimate source of information about these truck campers. People gave generously of their time and experience. Hundreds and hundreds of photos illustrating the tips, techniques and work arounds....there is nothing else like it in the world.

Now its shot through with missing imagery. Photobucket pulled the plug. Even if I paid $400 a year to host my images there are people who have moved on who would not even know that their posts are empty.

Yes, I'm shocked that this much work had been destroyed. I expect the same thing is true with thousands of other strings with rebuilding motorcycles, guitars, pianos etc., the stuff of our leisure time and deep interests.

If someone wants to argue that I "should have known" that free stuff could go away, please keep the thoughts to yourself. This is a tragedy and I'm in grief.

D. Gorton

Posted By: AnEv942 on 07/02/17 12:18pm

Agree with your sentiments completely-
As far as the thread- if the photos/albums still exist, right clicking on the picture, copying link to album, photos can be seen-painful-out of context, but scrolling thru pictures can be seen. Depending how browser set up if pictures cached they'll show up within threads

Doesnt remedy but a workaround for folks looking at specific info that picture might show.

Mark

01 Ford F250 4x4 DRW Diesel, 01 Elkhorn 9U
Our camper projects page

Posted By: garryk6 on 07/02/17 05:40pm

I am sick about this too. I've been right there with you D...
I will try to find another host and I will move all my photobucket to another site. Anyone have any input or ideas?? I want to be a part of resurrecting much of this if possible.
Thanks!
Garry

Garry K
Wife + 4 kids
Retired Military Family.... Alway's on the move....
2002 F350 CCSB 5.4 6spd 4x4 in AK
1966 Avion C-10 Truck Camper

Posted By: D1trout on 07/02/17 06:13pm

Gents, I have found Photobucket annoying and difficult all along. The last posts I made were done with Imgur which I found to be very easy. Perhaps it doesn't offer the features that Photobucket did... or perhaps I'm just technologically challenged...
In the event, I'll be interested in whatever workaround we can devise.

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