What to do What to do

There are a few things that need to be repaired and a few things that I would like to add. First both end caps need to be replaced. So I started to look and see where to purchase them. I started to investigate what the part numbers are. Sad to say I found out that Coleman/Fleet went out of business. Finding this out I started to call around to the local camper sales companies and also on the internet hoping that someone might at have a set of them lying around in the back of a stock room. Well there were none to be found. At this point I had to start to think about how I was going to fix them or replace them. These end caps are made with a very thin plastic. I came up with a few ideas on what to do.

1.       I could fill them with construction foam and then use a little fiber glass to go over the cracks and then just paint them white.

2.       Use the end caps as molds and make new ones out of fiber glass or resin.

3.       Take off the plastic and aluminum and then reskin the camper.

4.       Or just do nothing and keep the camouflage duck tape on it and pretend that there is a bush growing on the side of the camper.

I am going to take number 3 but I am planning to use diamond plate.  

Starting up

Deciding what truly needs to be done and what is something cool to add to your pop up. So with my dad’s mathematic skills; my mom’s don’t tell me I can’t do it because I will just to prove you wrong; and the Gray motto: go ahead and do it whatever the task at hand even if you don’t know how to do it but make sure that it looks like you do know. The motto is pretty much the reason why I need to work on the camper.

Getting a camper

Ok so here is the story about our 1999 Coleman/Fleetwood Fairview pop up camper.

First of all we did not set out to buy a Coleman, we had our eyes on a different brand. We had purchased it and they were checking it out and getting it ready for us to pick up. Well we got a call from the dealer saying that when they opened it up that there was water damage to the inside roof and that they looked at the other two and they also had water damage. They were going to give us a next model up at the same price which was awesome. Well once again when they open it up there was also water damage to the roof. So they call us back and wanted to know if we would take the Coleman/Fleetwood. At the same price so we ended up get a much high price camper for the same cost of the one we wanted.

The first place we went out to Fort De Soto for a weekend for a test drive but close to home just in case we need something. All went well and we were happy with it.

The plan was that we were going to go camping at least once a weekend each month and we forced us to they were great weekends. We went all over the state of Florid and a few trips out of the state on long weekends. There were some vacations of a week to two weeks and they were all over the south eastern part of our country.

Bandit and his pop up camper

 

This is Bandit my service dog. Bandit is part shiba uni and they are very smart and loyal he has come to think that he is my supervisor. At home he will follow me all over the house while I do any type of work. Bandit loves to go camping and loves the pop up. So I know that he will be under feet as I work on the camper.