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How Can We Help? Stay Connected. Visit Airstream. A Subsidiary of Thor Industries, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Looks like old patches that were cut too short so when the trailer was moving, the swaying pulled them apart. Bought new water lines for the patch, but used a compression adaptor for one line and a barb coupling for the other. Fixed… hooray. Solution: Blow torch away old solder, wire brush clean pipe lines, re-solder.
The connecting piece is too rusted and old to remove and since the faucet itself is a permanent fixture to the sink, I cant replace it without replacing the entire bathroom. Not in my near future plans lol.
Solution: Plumbers glue! Solution: Pipe cutter, remove large portion of piping, bought flexible kitchen water hose, bought my new favorite plumbing toy Sharkbite push-fit fittings , connect hose to main connector, connect other end to Sharkbite, connect shark bite to copper water line. Solution: Used a tar-like leak spray my friend Brittany had. Turns out someone tried fixing this and flared the copper which was being connected to a NPT fitting.
Decided to take an awesome hot shower as a reward, finished, turned off water, too much water pressure blew an old patch I had never noticed before in the bathroom. Solution 1: Retighten clamps, confirm no leaks.
One shower later, not fixed. Solution 2: New patch hose, new clamps. Back-up plan: Pipe cutter, cut out larger section of piping because the patch is literally like inches long.
Short flexible kitchen water hose, two Sharkbite push-fit fittings. I decided to make sure the 30gl water tank and water pump were good to go as well.
For the most part yea. The pump works, no leaks from the water tank, but every other minute the water pump would kick on and then shut off… the only time the water pump should turn on is to run water when I flip a faucet on. And the lines should be pressurized and therefore no reason the pump should be on. Whaaa theee… LEAK! Tiny leak. Somewhere between the water pump and the water heater.
Plan of action: pull up the carpeting and expose wood flooring, turn on water pump and visually see where the wood becomes wet, follow direction of leak, plumbers glue or patch. Needless to say, I feel like everyone at ACE Hardware knows me on a first name basis now and I learned how to fix more plumbing issues in 2 weeks than I have ever done in my entire life.
Did the Mario Brothers ever do this much plumbing? Thursday, July 12, Stripping. The walls of my Argosy are a vinyl clad aluminum and from what the forums at airstreamforums. So of course I procrastinated, fearing the daunting obstacle before me but eyeing the prize at the end It's probably a good thing to mention this right at the beginning, if you ever plan on using this stuff seriously use gloves and long sleeves shirts The Jasco will burn temporarily and go away, the Klean-Strip however burns and burns and doesn't stop burning, even if you use soap and water - you will have to use a grease based remover.
Needless to say I ended up only using the Jasco. After the scratch mishap, I decided to use saw blade teeth to penetrate the top portion of the vinyl and that worked well, except every once in a while I would apply too much pressure and then end up scratching the aluminum.
SO after hitting the ground running with this, I decided to stop using the covering plastic or any kind of tool to scratch the vinyl and just use copious amounts of stripper That seemed to work fine as well. This has been a 3-day process mostly trial and error and I should finish the stripping by the end of today.
Then I can start the polish and buffing. I gave the Argosy the cleaning of a life time yesterday, which gave me the opportunity to really inspect the trailer in great detail. The assessment helps me figure out what it is I need to do to make this baby my own, what I should do first, and honestly how much moolah am I really gonna be spending.
The Good 1. Brand new tires with a spare 2. Refrigerator works — can run on propane or electric 4. No leaks! It rained most of the way back from New Mexico so I was really able to find out if it did, but thankfully not a drop anywhere from the ceilings or windows 5. No cracks in any of the windows 6. Carpeting in great shape, so it will stay for now… til I get my hands on the snap-in bamboo flooring I want 7.
Exterior paint job looks original and not in too bad a shape The Bad 1. The two gaucho covers are pretty beat, will definitely need to replace those 3.
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