Post by Roehm3108 on Jan 18, 2007 20:44:47 GMT 10
Hi all
Just wanted to share a thought with you - as I'm now God almighty, I have such privileges ;D ;D
Just brought home the much vaunted Propert you have all seen in the "For Sale" Thread. Absolutely gorgeous van, inside and out.
By the time I got to Warragul, little cracks started to appear at the points where the outer shell locks down at the back. OK, I thought, can't do anything here, just have to hope it gets home without the lever ripping the whole corner off.
Today, I finally dared to venture near it (still getting over a case of food poisoning I caught eating a Mallacoota seafood pie! Who would have guessed from the home of fishing in the South East corner of Oz)
Sadly Werner (bless his soul - he is with God Almighty now, and me being a padre can still bless him!!), when fixing the rot in the two afore-mentioned corners really took a short cut - a real short short cut! Instead of ripping out and rebuilding, or even just cleaning out, reinforcing and using chopped fibreglass to give this pressure point some strength, Werner decided to use ordinary car bog!!!!
Looked pretty schmick all round, especially with a couple of good coats of the old Haynes paint over it. Until I took it on the road!
So now I have a bigger job than Werner had in fixing the thing. The rot itself, because it wasn't cut out fully has grown (remember, rot is a cancer, if you don't get it out fully, it'll grow again as soon as some moisture gets into it - and what do they have in Melbourne, even in garages - bloomin moisture - except where the flamin fires are!)
So, whenever you use ordinary car bog - think about where you are going to use it. Sure it will work for quite a time when it's not under pressure, and will smooth out minor imperfections. But it has SFA (don't know what that means - just looks good here) structural holding power. So as soon as you have something to fix that comes under any sort of pressure when it's moving - do it right in the first place - rebuild, or at least use the correct filler for the job. You won't be sorry. Amen
Here endeth the lesson
Ray
Just wanted to share a thought with you - as I'm now God almighty, I have such privileges ;D ;D
Just brought home the much vaunted Propert you have all seen in the "For Sale" Thread. Absolutely gorgeous van, inside and out.
By the time I got to Warragul, little cracks started to appear at the points where the outer shell locks down at the back. OK, I thought, can't do anything here, just have to hope it gets home without the lever ripping the whole corner off.
Today, I finally dared to venture near it (still getting over a case of food poisoning I caught eating a Mallacoota seafood pie! Who would have guessed from the home of fishing in the South East corner of Oz)
Sadly Werner (bless his soul - he is with God Almighty now, and me being a padre can still bless him!!), when fixing the rot in the two afore-mentioned corners really took a short cut - a real short short cut! Instead of ripping out and rebuilding, or even just cleaning out, reinforcing and using chopped fibreglass to give this pressure point some strength, Werner decided to use ordinary car bog!!!!
Looked pretty schmick all round, especially with a couple of good coats of the old Haynes paint over it. Until I took it on the road!
So now I have a bigger job than Werner had in fixing the thing. The rot itself, because it wasn't cut out fully has grown (remember, rot is a cancer, if you don't get it out fully, it'll grow again as soon as some moisture gets into it - and what do they have in Melbourne, even in garages - bloomin moisture - except where the flamin fires are!)
So, whenever you use ordinary car bog - think about where you are going to use it. Sure it will work for quite a time when it's not under pressure, and will smooth out minor imperfections. But it has SFA (don't know what that means - just looks good here) structural holding power. So as soon as you have something to fix that comes under any sort of pressure when it's moving - do it right in the first place - rebuild, or at least use the correct filler for the job. You won't be sorry. Amen
Here endeth the lesson
Ray
