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So after all the cutting, grinding, welding, and so on, this is where I ended up at the end of the day.
It doesn't look like much, but it takes a while to cut, weld, and grind this stuff into place.
The green lines are new pieces of steel today.
The 3 red arrows show an old piece of steel, that is only tack welded in there temporarily, so I could get a measurement for the length of the pieces I needed to cut today.
Those 3 long pieces are NOT welded to the old piece at the top.
That old piece is only welded at the yellow circle areas.
So now, I am at the point, that the next move is to remove that old piece and test fit it on the coach.
Everything should line up just fine, and if it does, then I can give it 2 coats of Por 15.
Next day, after it is dry, I can weld this back in place, and the left wall is done! YAY!!!
Then I can move on to other areas. Ye Haw!!!!!
![[image]](http://paddleupstream.com/mohorebuild/driverssidefront17.jpg)
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fulltimin
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When your portable grinder, with a cutting wheel installed, gets to this size..................
Your cutting days are over with this one.
![[image]](http://paddleupstream.com/mohorebuild/donegrinding.jpg)
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Remember this? This is the piece that I removed from the drivers side.
![[image]](http://paddleupstream.com/mohorebuild/remembersteelframing.jpg)
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When you cut it up, it looks like this.
![[image]](http://paddleupstream.com/mohorebuild/remembersteelframing2.jpg)
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Of course, if you want to got the opposite way, the red rectangle can be turned into the yellow rectangle.... Lol...
![[image]](http://paddleupstream.com/mohorebuild/remembersteelframing3.jpg)
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Ok, here you can see that I removed the old piece of steel from the newly created frame for the drivers side.
The red line was where the old piece of steel was welded in, temporarily, so I could cut those horizontal pieces to the correct length.
![[image]](http://paddleupstream.com/mohorebuild/removedoldsteeldriverside.jpg)
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And here we are getting ready to test fit the new framework on the drivers side.
![[image]](http://paddleupstream.com/mohorebuild/checkingthefitdriverside3.jpg)
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And there we go. I've got it hoisted into position, with a couple of clamps, and we are looking pretty good.
![[image]](http://paddleupstream.com/mohorebuild/checkingthefitdriverside4.jpg)
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Here are 2 of the points that I wanted to make sure were very close to proper fitment.
They actually look pretty good.
![[image]](http://paddleupstream.com/mohorebuild/checkingthefitdriverside.jpg)
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This was the main one, and the angle is very good.
It helped to have the old piece to use as a pattern.
![[image]](http://paddleupstream.com/mohorebuild/checkingthefitdriverside2.jpg)
Yee Haw!!!!
That's close enough for me.
After I get a couple of coats of Por 15 on here, I can then weld this entire framework back in to where it belongs.
I had to resist the urge to just grab the welder and start welding away.
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