Big House – Coach Repairs – Friday August 24, 2018

Home projects for the motor home.

The storage drawer under Jean’s dinette seat quit rolling on the aluminum track runner.  It wasn’t the drawer we open the most so I ask Jean if we could wait until we got home and I had more of my tools.

The aluminum has stretched and rolled down.

I had some angled aluminum so cut a piece and pop riveted it onto the original track.

After I finished the first side I checked the other drawer and it had the same problem it just hadn’t bent all the way down.  I fixed this side with a piece of word to support the bottom of the runner.

 

Couch springs

At Christmas time I put new springs into one end of the couch.  During this trip the springs I put in at Christmas moved and created some holes in the sitting area. 

I added some screws and more hog rings, hopefully the springs will stop moving.

Steps

After we got home the support arm coming off the step gear box broke.  I found a replacement gearbox which used steel rather than then pot metal the original gearbox had on it. 

 

 

Pot metal is steel which is cast in a mold and when done quickly often has weak structure in it and is not as strong as rolled or stamped steel.