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Just went to buy that sheet and he had boards of it 110x30x2.7m for $4 each. So I got 6 of those instead of spending a fortune on a sheet I can’t lift. Winning.

The Ply Guy locally has 30mm sheets of untreated industrial ply that I think will be the way to go. https://www.plyguy.co.nz/taranaki/shop/timber/jumboply-3020x1220x30mm-ut-industrial-grade/

Any clever ideas for framing timber? It needs to be un-treated to avoid reacting with the aluminium. Its 30mm thick. I'm tossing up laminating some dressed pine to get to 30mm or cutting what I need out of 30mm UT ply. Thoughts?

The whole right hand corner is completely rotten, both lower corners have detached, and the front panel has detached. Genuinely, the bed frames were the ONLY thing holding the entire front of the caravan together. Once I lifted the beds out, I noticed that when I was walking around, the entire front wall of the caravan was moving side to side relative to the floor. So I'm in for a major here... eek. Plan at this stage is: Replace the front ~300mm or so of floor to get a good solid base. Rebuild the rotten front corners and framing Reinstall the window with toughened glass Continue through the rest of the caravan doing the same trip and repair. I'm expecting some more major drama around the doorway. Completely re-fit the interior with a layout that better suits our family So now George looks like all the caravan projects that I wasn't allowed to buy... This is something we had always wanted to do in the future, but with the Galaxie arriving any day now, the timing to dive into this project couldn't be any worse. Just gonna have to get stuck in and git-er-dun.

So, after all that last summer we used George a couple of times throughout the year with the duct tape still in place to make sure the window stayed put. Most notable trip was to Taupo for the supercars with the small bikes and @alfalfa. Then spent some money and got a new windscreen made up and installed with a better sized rubber "so the window won't fall out again"... For our summer break this year we decided just to hang around Taranaki and setup the caravan at my parents batch in Opunake. On the drive to Opunake we kept having the awning hatch pop open, which was a bit weird, so out with more duct tape to stop that happening. Then on the drive home, the bloody window popped out again... I had a thorough look over it with the glazier, and we couldn't find any obvious reason for it popping out, so we started to talk about gluing in a new window. I decided to have a bit of a probe around the framing as there were a couple of bits that looked a slightly doughy... Teeny bit of off-colour in the corner of the cabinet: So decided "fuck it, its renovation time". And started stripping the lining off

Great stuff Murray!

it’s been noticed… lol

That sounds like my brothers iron head owning experience. Every time he rode it something broke off or fell off or shit itself. I can still clearly recall a bunch of us making evasive maneuvers on a ride to avoid his gearlever bouncing down the road in front of us.

Fucked if i know haha. But that test should isolate it to a cylinder or not.

Reinstall the pistons and rods one at a time and turn it over to see if one of them kicks off the sticky spot? Could it be something weird happening with one of the big ends not being true?

Fuck those things looked ridiculous next to Shannons C50.

Yep, pretty sure all of Taumaranui was awake at 7.05am when that fired up! Epic weekend guys, thanks to all that came along and made it such a great time. Who would have thought it was so hard to get back off the beach. A+ Shannon send there too btw

Thanks but we will be all good. No dramas last year fuel wise

I've got a few copies of the turn by turn notes too.

I've just sent out the email with all the details and directions. PLEASE READ IT and make sure your mates have seen it. There is some important things in there, particularly about lunch on Sunday.

FYI I'll try and get an email out tomorrow with the run sheets and instructions etc.

This is relevant to my daydreaming also

Yeah should be sweet

Yeah day 1 and 3 are pretty much 200km with no gas stops, so we will put plenty on the trailer to make sure we are all good.

Oh I'm not disputing that... But with the company you are keeping on this ride, there's no fear of maintaining those kind of speeds

Ha! That's several hundred metres from my house for beer/tools/last minute repairs. Also very good neighbourhood for not getting shit stolen.

Similar story, I'd done a few uni track days at Ruapuna with my VR6 golf and my mustang, they were fast and that was plenty of fun. Then went one time when it was drizzling and greasy, in my 1300cc grandad spec mk1 escort along with my flatmate in his 1000cc mini. We had THE BEST time. Absolutely beating the snot out of these poor old cars, sliding around, chasing each other, not actually going super fast but it was so much fun because it didn't feel like we would die if we left the track.

No problem at all. Are you guys at the Top 10 on Princes St in Fitzroy?

Hey why not next weekend? Bring a bike

Oh just an engine yeah sweet we will find room for it.