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Date:         Sat, 28 Mar 2009 08:11:25 -0700
Reply-To:     Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: getting seam rust repaired
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If the affected area is only behind the kitchen you should only need to remove the fridge, the sink/stove cabinet and the water tank (low rear) cabinet.  Then the wall panel behind the kitchen pops off for access to the wall. Three hours max if you work steadily at an easy rate.  Baggie and label fasteners for each cabinet separately. Probably not the closet or the rear bench would need to come out, but the bench is easy and the closet much more involved.

Stephen

--- On Fri, 3/27/09, Joy Hecht <jhecht@ALUM.MIT.EDU> wrote:

From: Joy Hecht <jhecht@ALUM.MIT.EDU> Subject: getting seam rust repaired To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Date: Friday, March 27, 2009, 11:04 PM

Hi all,

Poor Matilda, one month of winter in Newfoundland and her incipient seam rust is erupting.  Paint has started to flake off just above the seam (left side, behind the fridge and sink), a spot of rust maybe 1" x 3" now exposed to the air (and salty road spray), plus all the other bubbling and stuff along the seam.

I'm taking her in to a body shop next week to get an estimate on repairs - the options they mentioned involve replacing the whole side, or what sounded like cutting a strip off and replacing that, or sanding it out from the outside and doing something to keep it from rusting again (what does one do?).

They said (offhand guess) that it would take a day of labor to remove all the camping gear and then put it back in, plus the time to actually do the work.  That sounded like a lot of time, though no doubt it would take me that long.

If anyone has any advice on having seam rust repaired, before I bring her in to get the estimate, I'd really appreciate it!

Joy


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