Hi Everyone,
This spring I acquired a new Project Camper. It is a 2004 T1950 which seemed to find me, and after looking at the pics of it, it founds its way to our home where I wanted to create a project camper out of it and restore it to its full Sunline glory. It seems to be a hit with my family as they want to use it to go camping in :) Well maybe next year as there is a bit of work yet to do on it before we go camping in it
.;) You will see what I mean shortly.
This post has some general pics of the day we brought it home.
http://www.sunlineclub.com/forums/f6...950-17513.html
This post will be picture heavy and contain some real ugly looking pictures of what a water infection can do to a camper. I enjoy doing this kind of work as a hobby and we can make all that ugly go away in time. This camper is a perfect camper restore project as the prior owners really enjoyed their Sunline and kept it up as best they knew how to. The inside is in really great shape and the outside does not have large abuse damage other than sun damage.
This camper restore project will hopefully help our Sunline Club members learn about how a camper gets a water infection, what is involved in fixing them if they want to take on a repair of this size and learn about RV roof systems in general along with the needs of up keeping our camper roofs. Since the pictures will be plentiful, we can also learn about how Sunline built our campers. While some of the methods have changed over the years, the methods are not that much different for what we call a Stick and Tin camper. The outer structure is wood and the siding is aluminum. This is a very good combo as long as a water infection does not happen which is still the case in the newer aluminum framed campers. This combo of stick and tin makes it fairly easy with standard wood working tools to rebuild the entire camper if needed.
The project will more than likely take me over a year to complete as right now I am only taking the camper apart to let it dry out. Then come winter time, I will start the rebuild as we have a bit much already planned for this year already and camping in our T310SR Sunny yet to do :grin:. This will also give me time to order materials and get them in advance.
There is also a learning on moisture meters and how they can help when inspecting a camper for water damage you cannot see, but may be inside the camper walls, floors or ceiling. This post deals primarily with project camper restoration however I will be using the the moisture meter in the restoration process. By using the moisture meter you can see the insides of the camper. This thread goes into more details of moisture meters.
http://www.sunlineclub.com/forums/f7...per-17613.html
My goal from the outcome of this restore post is later to create a thread dedicated to how to inspect a camper for water damage all by itself from parts of this project and others who have learned about water damage along the way. This seems to be a common theme lately on how to know if you have a water problem and how big is it.
I will also be tracking the work hours and material costs more closely so I can keep track and folks can see what time it takes to do these kind of repairs and if they want to tackle such a thing. It also helps when you go to a repair facility to understand why this costs so much to do this repair. This is a labor intensive project and the charge out rates of shop time can easily be $65 to $120/hr pending the shop. For those of use doing this ourselves, well it is a labor of love for sure
So on with the show. Thanks for looking and any comments and questions along the way, just ask.
Thanks
John
