| Before
The door seal is all its decomposed
glory. The door within a door seal was just
as bad. The hardware is cabinet latches from the
1950's, and will be sandblasted and re-Zolatoned
with the rest of the door interior skins later.
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The
reassembled and ready to install door. The vent
door and this door are installed on the stainless steel
hinges in
the door opening with 2 simple
hinge pins. They are easy to remove - a tip
should you ever lock yourself out of the trailer.
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After
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to enlarge -
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Rusty fasteners and missing pop rivets
made the decision easier to remove the interior
skin and repair and clean up the corrosion in the door. New
insulation was installed, the lock mechanism lubed, and
the 1/2 inch of dirt
removed from the bottom the door insides.
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The screen was replaced with galvanized screen
using the "pizza cutter' screen tool seen in the foreground. This
makes the screen tight. Do not use aluminum screening -
it will not work in this kind of application. |
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The finished door reinstalled along with the
vent door. The seal was replaced on it too, and required
the
door shape to be tweaked a little to get a nice fit. All
the corroded fasteners were replaced with stainless steel
ones as required. The exterior and interior handle shown,
along
with the escutcheon plate, are available from Vintage
Trailer Supply.
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The door new seal is installed
between the interior skin and the outer skin, and then riveted
in place using conventional bucked rivets. |
 
The oxidized shroud above the door gets sanded
and polished and restraightened. |
