Kirk Creek Campground - Big Sur

Friday, February 24, 2012

Next - Never Ending Aluminum Polishing!

After getting the paint job wrapped up we had to put her all back together.  We spent countless hours polishing the gutter rails, the windows and any other aluminum parts, her eis a photo of the products we were using to polish.

Polishing Steps:

1. Goof Off if needed to get any crud off, then Chrome and Wire cleaner (spray it on- it works great to get all the old corrosion off)

2. Rust Disolver if needed on things like the wheel rims ect

3. Murphys Oil Soap scrub (put some muscle in it) with a fine steel wool

4. last rub on and off the  Mothers mag & aluminum polish with a soft cloth for the sparkly shine finish ;-)

                       Wow we really put our time in here!


Look at how shiny that chrome finish is now!

Applied all new putty tape  and sealant to the seams then put up our shiny revived gutter rails, putty taped all the windows and lights, put in our polished parts- so gratifying!  We got all the lights working for the long haul ahead.



 Its down to the wire here putting it all back together.  Moving up north in one day!  

Notice Salty dog hard at work supervising.  We cleaned each jelousie glass panel with CLR and they look like new! We put new gaskets and seals in the windows.  Got the front window rock guard all cleaned up and  installed.  (just missing one hub cap- so we're on the look out for a matching half moon hub)

Final Paint Job


Ok, so we've got some serious backtracking to do once again... After getting married in July we busted our tails to finish the exterior of the trailer and  then we got her on the road for our big move up to a Mount Shasta California.  So here are more pictures of us finishing up the paint job after our wedding.

Masking off for our silver Z-stripe

Ready to spray the silver Z-stripe, we got so lucky with the weather,
no wind, and just enough coastal fog to keep the temperatures down



Final paint job product! She turned our beautiful! Now it's time to put her
all back together, we put the storage doors back on in this photo