| Re: [GMCnet] never a dull saturday [message #214269] |
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hnielsen2
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Location: Alpine CA
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Joe
Do you have a large lumber yard in your area?
If not look for Baltic Ply Wood.
Here in San Diego I can buy 5X5' sheets about 3/4 "
It's all metric sized
Howard
Alpine Ca
74 Canyon Lands
All is well with my Lord
On Jul 13, 2013, at 7:03 PM, Joe Weir <joeweir@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Block did not make it back from the machine shop. So, full of ambition from my visit to the Coop, I decided to swap out my seat bases for offset late model ones. However removing the stock base provided a little surprise.
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> New GMC Shopping rule:
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> If the side ashtray is rusted out, the floor under the window probably looks like this:
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> http://www.gmcmhphotos.com/photos/mechanical/p49922-photo11.html
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> One of the POs was gracious enough to "repair" the leak by pouring epoxy on the rotted wood...It was mush all around the epoxy.
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> So in case anyone is wondering what the aluminum framing looks like under the floor:
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> http://www.gmcmhphotos.com/photos/showfull.php?photo=49919
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> and the detail on the routed deck:
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> http://www.gmcmhphotos.com/photos/showfull.php?photo=49921
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> It looks as if one could build up the deck by using 2 layers of 1/4" and a center layer of 1/2" plywood glued together, if one was not handy with a router. I may have to try this.
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> Not having any luck finding marine plywood, not that it helped the original stuff, so I will have to waterproof some regular plywood.
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