Bruce Brown
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fulltimin wrote:ro_sie wrote:I have been logging on every day just to watch your progress. I want to thank you. I appreciate the time you are taking to do this informative posting.
Thank you very much. It has been, shall we say, an interesting journey, so far.
Speaking from experience, I can say a rebuild is a long, hard, interesting, but very rewarding project. Having done one I wouldn't hesitate to do another, just not anytime real soon. ![[emoticon]](http://www.coastresorts.com/sharedcontent/cfb/images/biggrin.gif "biggrin")
Keep up the good work.
There are 24 hours in every day - it all depends on how you choose to use them.
Bruce & Jill Brown
2008 Kountry Star Pusher 3910
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fulltimin
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stripit wrote:ro_sie wrote:I have been logging on every day just to watch your progress. I want to thank you. I appreciate the time you are taking to do this informative posting.
Me Too! I look for your updates everyday and admire your hard work.
Thank you. Glad you are enjoying it. (I enjoy work - I could sit and watch it for hours.... LOL.)
If you want to do something, you will find a way.
If you don't, you will find an excuse.
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A lot of experience, comes from bad judgement.
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fulltimin
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Bruce Brown wrote:fulltimin wrote:ro_sie wrote:I have been logging on every day just to watch your progress. I want to thank you. I appreciate the time you are taking to do this informative posting.
Thank you very much. It has been, shall we say, an interesting journey, so far.
Speaking from experience, I can say a rebuild is a long, hard, interesting, but very rewarding project. Having done one I wouldn't hesitate to do another, just not anytime real soon.
Keep up the good work.
But look at all the rewards you are missing... Lol...
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fulltimin
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Here is a pic of the co-pilot's window. This is where the major leak was.
Close up after this one.
![[image]](http://paddleupstream.com/mohorebuild/passwindowcaulk.jpg)
As you can see in this pic, there is basically no caulk in this section. I don't know if it wasn't there, or if it washed out, (unlikely), or what. It was not on the window, nor was it on the fiberglass, where the frame covered it.
You can see the debris towards the lower portion, from water and whatever, running down there, and getting inside the window frame.
![[image]](http://paddleupstream.com/mohorebuild/passwindowcaulk2.jpg)
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fulltimin
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Back to the inside, after I removed the piece of steel frame that runs from the top of the wall, down along the front cap, right behind the windshield, (windscreen, if you live across the pond), until it gets to the joint, about 2/3 of the way down the side.
The steel was where the yellow arrows are pointing to.
The green arrows, are pointing to the fiberglass cap.
The white fiberglass on the left side, is part of the overhead cabinet, (if you want to call it that), above the windshield.
![[image]](http://paddleupstream.com/mohorebuild/passwindowsteel.jpg)
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fulltimin
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After removing the brown plastic trim along the side of the windshield, between the windshield and the co-pilot's window, this is what I found.
You just never know what's behind door number 1.
![[image]](http://paddleupstream.com/mohorebuild/passwindowsteel2.jpg)
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A little farther down the side, with yellow as windshield, red as fiberglass front cap, and green piece of steel running down the side.
As you can see, there is no insulation here, after removing the ugly brown trim. Basically, what you see is what you get. Fiberglass, steel, plastic trim and air.
Of course, in this case, someone had run speaker wires down through here to speakers laying on the floor under the pilot and co-pilot's seats.
![[image]](http://paddleupstream.com/mohorebuild/passwindowsteel3.jpg)
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Here we have the mount at the bottom of the passenger side mirror. Just a little bit of rust there, from mostly from the wrong screws being used there.
![[image]](http://paddleupstream.com/mohorebuild/passengermirror.jpg)
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And of course, the 4 screw holes going through the siding to hold the mirror in place.
The top 2 screw holes were drilled into the steel wall frame, directly under the window, and the bottom 2 were screwed into a piece of plywood that was glued to the fiberglass.
I have absolutely no idea, what the center hole was used for.
![[image]](http://paddleupstream.com/mohorebuild/passengermirror2.jpg)
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This was the piece of plywood that the bottom 2 screws of the mirror was screwed to.
As you can see, the holes are a little "worn", and not really doing all that much to hold the mirror in place.
But hey, the top 2 were doing a fine job, right? Lol...
![[image]](http://paddleupstream.com/mohorebuild/passengermirror3.jpg)
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