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Originally Posted by jakebrake
years of neglect and the stops being out of adjustment, the outside wall seperated I found some water damage.
My question is:
Does any know how the smooth sides are assembled?
Can you actually take the exterior skin off these campers?
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Jake,
Which skin do you want to open up? The end of the slide that is in your pic OR the long front to back outside of the slide?
Reason I ask this is I had to remove both on my slide to correct the floor rot. Yes, I have aluminum siding, however I suspect the ends of the slide are made similar to a Filon unit.
See here on mine. The large flat sheet of white aluminum was glued to a piece of 1/8" luan board then glued to the studs. You can see me sliding my home made drip edge behind it.
Once you take the corner off you can peel back the luan and the siding stays with it. This is only the case on the ends of my slide to hold the large sheet of flat siding. On the corragated sides they where stapled on each piece of siding.
See there an inside shot from EMD_Driver and Kitty's salvage camper they bought for parts. You can see the luan sheet on the ends. This is a 2004 model camper you are looking at in these pic's
I would "suspect" that Sunline glued the large end filon sheet to a piece of 1/8" luan on the ends of your slide just like mine and like the 2004 T299SR EMD_Driver took apart.
This way you are not dealing with the filon at all. The actual long end of the slide may be made the same.
Pictures from my thread here may be helpfull even if the siding is different.
http://www.sunlineclub.com/forums/f7...age-10695.html
Hope this helps and please try and take some pic's of the process. Like Henry stated, we have not had any one yet post repair pics of a filon sided camper and these pics and repairs are priceless for those coming behind us fixing theirs.
Good luck
John
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