Restoring Vintage Trailer Windows

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Restoring vintage trailer windows.

Vintage trailer storage yards and junkyards are a great place to find abandoned trailers a project trailer to restore or original interior or exterior parts for your vintage trailer restoration or refurbishment project. Please take the time to register and we hope to here from you soon. Vintage trailer talk is a place to view discuss and post topics related to all things vintage trailer. Ebay often has these windows listed for auction.

Rotted wood can be repaired to look like new with easy to use epoxy fillers designed for wood window restoration see abatron ad below. Facebook groups where you might find parts and windows. The vintage trailer restoration projects she s completed have taught her many lessons about what to look for and avoid in a trailer. Vintage campers has salvaged windows.

Restoration on a vintage trailer can be a challenge but it is worth the effort. I do not believe it is an actual hehr brand window but it is built like the hehr window so that is why we call it a hehr style. Bud s vintage trailer parts. A restoration usually involves removing the trailer shell stripping out the electrical and determining the condition of the frame and interior panels.

A 1963 shasta compact a 1958 shasta 16 foot travel trailer and a 1994 ford econoline van. Chcamper offers new custom built jalousie windows up to 32 home depot. Before and afters from flippin rvs check out some amazing trailer home transformations done by restoration geniuses from the hit tv show flippin rvs. This is a complete window which was salvaged from a 1952 elcar vintage trailer.

Although she pays the pros to handle things like repacking wheel bearings and if necessary glass replacement she only purchases a trailer if she s confident she can do most of the repair work herself. When choosing a vintage trailer restoration project most people don t consider the little details that make vintage trailers so charming. If there is water damage they may have to strip the entire project down to the frame and start from the ground up. Check out there stock to see if they currently offer what you need.

Obviously this process can take months. One common vintage trailer doorhandle is also one of the trickiest and most expensive to replace. In many cases these windows have been in service for over a hundred years with much of their deterioration resulting directly from a lack of maintenance.