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Ok, Kelvin, you just earned your place in the hall of fame at the Coos Bay rally the first week in October! What a great outcome.
For the rest of you, sign up now for this rally at any of the three sponsoring club web sites, gmcws.org, https://sites.google.com/site/gmc49ersclub/, or http://www.gmc-cascaders.com/. Lots of interesting and new things coming.
We may bring both of our coaches - we just purchased a second one today. Our original coach has just about everything you can do to modernize a GMC, but it has a spun bearing in the engine at the moment. Should have a new engine by then. Our second coach is a time capsule that has been sitting in an air conditioned garage since it came out of Clasco in the mid 90s. Only about 11k on the clock since then so it would be a good example of what they were "in the day". Nice contrast to Kelvin's beautiful, brand new, just out of the paint booth example.
So much to see, learn and do. The vendor row, vendor demos and media day should be quite something and the two seminar tracks are scheduled to not overlap so you can all enjoy both. The first 100 coaches to sign up will have the option of full hook-ups plus will receive a metal art piece that Sharon and I have commissioned Santa Cruz, CA, metal artists, Serene Silva to build specially for this event. There is nearly unlimited dry camping available immediately adjacent to the RV park if you delay too long to be one of the first 100 (or if you just prefer dry camping to full hook ups). All our breakfast and dinner meals will be catered save one dinner on your own and the great Saturday night BBQ that all three clubs are sponsoring. To my knowledge, this is the first time we have all of the major west coast clubs participating. The Pacific Cruisers from LA have caravans already planned, we expect a group from the SW bunch as well, and the three sponsoring clubs pick up the
rest of the region west of the Rocky Mtns from way north in Canada to the MX border. And, for all you folks east of the Rockies, the trip west this time of year is something to remember.
You also have the opportunity to contribute to one of the several "task teams" that have been set up. Great way to meet new folks from other clubs from all over the country. Hope to see you there!
Jerry
Jerry Work
The Dovetail Joint
Fine furniture designed and hand crafted in the 1907 former Masonic Temple building in historic Kerby, OR
glwork@mac.com
http://jerrywork.com
541-592-5360
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Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 09:58:33 -0700
From: Kelvin Dietz <kelvin@datsuns.com>
Subject: Re: [GMCnet] Topeka Graphics no longer painting GMCs?
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On 5/23/2013 9:02 AM, Jim Bounds wrote:
> wrote another post explaining some things but guess what-- it was too long. Me--- what--- too longgggg-- yea, I'm guilty. The big thing I wanted to say is there are many details to an exterior refinish, each one add to the final cost. Example, there are 10 (countm) top clearance lights-- each one has to be taken off (soooo darn rusty), silocone cleaned up, holes filled then the coach painted. After that, you wire, test, seal and secure each. Many shops will just bag off the rusty light and smeared silocone-- paint it and that's what you have. There is a cost doing new LED ($12 each) lights up there-- it all costs so no exterior refinish will ever stop at $4300. Don't fixate on that 1 number, it will not be that.
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> Jim Bounds
Just went thru all of this on my coach. I didn't do any of the actual
body and paint work but I did almost all of the preperation other than
sanding. Being an Oregon coach rust isn't as much of an issue so most of
the clearance lights came off ok. POs had slathered a couple gallons of
silicone over the coach. That all has to come off, of course.
Just stripping all the pieces off is a task. If you don't want them to
just tape everything off then it's best to remove the parts. There are a
LOT of parts on a GMC that you want to paint under. The AC is a big
one. The idea of old paint under that assembly didn't sit well.
Do you want the old (insert your OEM color here) on the undersides of
all the hatches? No... I wanted the new color. Hatches come off. Both
the propane and generator doors had cracks from 40 years of use. Those
had to be fixed.
And my paint was so wasted that painting over it would have been folly.
All of it needed to come off.
The final paint looks awesome from 20 feet away. There was almost no
bodywork so there are waves and ripples but I'm confident the paint will
stick on there for decades.
The guy who did this quoted $6000 and stuck to it. I got a deal because
he didn't know better.
He said he'd do another of for $7500 and I think that's a steal.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kelvins_pics/sets/72157632335982130/
Kelvin
'73 23' in Eugene, OR
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Fri, 24 May 2013 09:31  |
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On May 23, 2013, at 8:05 PM, Work Jerry <glwork@mac.com> wrote:
> Ok, Kelvin, you just earned your place in the hall of fame at the Coos Bay rally the first week in October! What a great outcome.
>
> For the rest of you, sign up now for this rally at any of the three sponsoring club web sites, gmcws.org, https://sites.google.com/site/gmc49ersclub/, or http://www.gmc-cascaders.com/. Lots of interesting and new things coming.
>
> We may bring both of our coaches - we just purchased a second one today. Our original coach has just about everything you can do to modernize a GMC, but it has a spun bearing in the engine at the moment. Should have a new engine by then. Our second coach is a time capsule that has been sitting in an air conditioned garage since it came out of Clasco in the mid 90s. Only about 11k on the clock since then so it would be a good example of what they were "in the day". Nice contrast to Kelvin's beautiful, brand new, just out of the paint booth example.
>
> So much to see, learn and do. The vendor row, vendor demos and media day should be quite something and the two seminar tracks are scheduled to not overlap so you can all enjoy both. The first 100 coaches to sign up will have the option of full hook-ups plus will receive a metal art piece that Sharon and I have commissioned Santa Cruz, CA, metal artists, Serene Silva to build specially for this event. There is nearly unlimited dry camping available immediately adjacent to the RV park if you delay too long to be one of the first 100 (or if you just prefer dry camping to full hook ups). All our breakfast and dinner meals will be catered save one dinner on your own and the great Saturday night BBQ that all three clubs are sponsoring. To my knowledge, this is the first time we have all of the major west coast clubs participating. The Pacific Cruisers from LA have caravans already planned, we expect a group from the SW bunch as well, and the three sponsoring clubs pick up t
he
> rest of the region west of the Rocky Mtns from way north in Canada to the MX border. And, for all you folks east of the Rockies, the trip west this time of year is something to remember.
>
> You also have the opportunity to contribute to one of the several "task teams" that have been set up. Great way to meet new folks from other clubs from all over the country. Hope to see you there!
>
> Jerry
> Jerry Work
> The Dovetail Joint
> Fine furniture designed and hand crafted in the 1907 former Masonic Temple building in historic Kerby, OR
> glwork@mac.com
> http://jerrywork.com
> 541-592-5360
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> Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 09:58:33 -0700
> From: Kelvin Dietz <kelvin@datsuns.com>
> Subject: Re: [GMCnet] Topeka Graphics no longer painting GMCs?
> To: gmclist@temp.gmcnet.org
> Message-ID: <519E4AB9.8060901@datsuns.com>
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> On 5/23/2013 9:02 AM, Jim Bounds wrote:
>> wrote another post explaining some things but guess what-- it was too long. Me--- what--- too longgggg-- yea, I'm guilty. The big thing I wanted to say is there are many details to an exterior refinish, each one add to the final cost. Example, there are 10 (countm) top clearance lights-- each one has to be taken off (soooo darn rusty), silocone cleaned up, holes filled then the coach painted. After that, you wire, test, seal and secure each. Many shops will just bag off the rusty light and smeared silocone-- paint it and that's what you have. There is a cost doing new LED ($12 each) lights up there-- it all costs so no exterior refinish will ever stop at $4300. Don't fixate on that 1 number, it will not be that.
>>
>> Jim Bounds
>
> Just went thru all of this on my coach. I didn't do any of the actual
> body and paint work but I did almost all of the preperation other than
> sanding. Being an Oregon coach rust isn't as much of an issue so most of
> the clearance lights came off ok. POs had slathered a couple gallons of
> silicone over the coach. That all has to come off, of course.
>
> Just stripping all the pieces off is a task. If you don't want them to
> just tape everything off then it's best to remove the parts. There are a
> LOT of parts on a GMC that you want to paint under. The AC is a big
> one. The idea of old paint under that assembly didn't sit well.
>
> Do you want the old (insert your OEM color here) on the undersides of
> all the hatches? No... I wanted the new color. Hatches come off. Both
> the propane and generator doors had cracks from 40 years of use. Those
> had to be fixed.
>
> And my paint was so wasted that painting over it would have been folly.
> All of it needed to come off.
>
> The final paint looks awesome from 20 feet away. There was almost no
> bodywork so there are waves and ripples but I'm confident the paint will
> stick on there for decades.
>
> The guy who did this quoted $6000 and stuck to it. I got a deal because
> he didn't know better.
> He said he'd do another of for $7500 and I think that's a steal.
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/kelvins_pics/sets/72157632335982130/
>
> Kelvin
> '73 23' in Eugene, OR
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