28 replies to this topic

[chnlisle]

Beautiful job!

[Linda N]

Impressive! Great to see the detailed discussion and photographs. Appreciate you sharing.

[banderswipe]

Great paint job Rusty, Epic project.

[Rusty]

Thought I might bring this back up...just in case some of yous guys want to paint yours

[BluesideUp]

Good thought, she's a classic and good for another 40!

[Henricksen]

Thank you Rusty for the work in putting together that very interesting and valuable record of pictures and words about redoing the outside of an Alaskan.  Though I won't be doing an operation like yours, parts of procedure will sure be helpful for me.

[senor]

Hi Rusty, any chance of looking re-posting the pictures?

 

Respectfully,

 

CAPT Martin

[Rusty]

The size of the pictures eliminated them from an upgrade to the site....so they are now found in my gallery...I'll try and sort them out to fit the text....a little later

 

OK...there's a bunch up under the folder "Paint"

 

There's more but I kind of thinned them down to the most relevant...

 

out of order...I'll have to work on that

 

I painted the window frames...seemed appropriate...since they were raw aluminum...took prime well and the paint has held up nicely

 

Only one thing....all three family owners are big on beach time....minor salts persisted and have eaten through both the prime and paint by oxidizing the aluminum under....minor detailing needed after 10 years...other than that the paint has held up extremely well...still has gloss....but that's probably from all the waxing....just kidding

Edited by Rusty, 12 April 2017 - 04:05 PM.

[Moose Dog]

Thanks for sharing this info, Rusty! Excellent reference

[Rusty]

a little "post paint"

 

after 8 years of road travel and a begillion trips to the beach she has started to show a little wear....the pre priming surface really needs a nuetralizer of some sort...I'll do a little investigation into that...but...

 

alot of our travels and my sisters travels on the camper before me and grannys travels before both...were at the beach...so a minor salt corrosion is starting to show up as minor pitting and under surface corrosion...most in the bottom 6 inches of the top section only so it may be road gravel pitting in combination with the salt but it's there and showing up in bits and pieces

 

I clear the corrosion as I see it but haven't decided what to do with the 6" band yet.....90% on the front and back of the top section only

 

Maybe a Marine Corps wrap....8" wide....with C-130's....now we're talking.....i'm sure the other half will have a little something to say

Edited by Rusty, 22 August 2017 - 05:12 PM.