Sooooo.... apparently, having a vintage Airstream trailer frame fabricated is a niche market ;) I spent a HUGE amount of time this week emailing and calling around trying to find someone who could make a new one for us. I got a LOT of, "I'm sorry, we don't do that. You might try this guy over here." I did find one guy early on, be he couldn't get to it until at least June! Ack! That would totally cut into our hoped-for time frame! So I continued emailing and finally found a guy who can do it :)
This is a sketch of the frame that I sent him (along with real-life pictures) to get an idea of what we were looking for.
This is a sketch of the frame that I sent him (along with real-life pictures) to get an idea of what we were looking for.
Sunday was the day to take the old frame to him to use as a template to build the new one! We simply hitched up to the trailer frame and towed it out from under Maude's shell! Easy peasy!
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Here's Maude's shell minus the frame! My next project is getting the last of the nasty (and now sopping wet from all of the rain we've been having!) insulation, walnut shells and mouse poop cleaned up! You can't really tell from these pictures, but we had to cut the belly pan in half in order to get the frame out. Later, we'll need to either patch it with more rivets (yay! ;) ) or replace it completely. We'll see!
Our frame guy thinks he should have the new trailer frame fabricated and all ready for us in 5-6 weeks! SOOOOO much better than probably July!
We are super stoked to be progressing forward! We're also really excited to be almost ready to put things back together instead of breaking it all apart ;)
Until next time! <3 Becca
We are super stoked to be progressing forward! We're also really excited to be almost ready to put things back together instead of breaking it all apart ;)
Until next time! <3 Becca
