Re: Cabinet and woodwork replacement
Posted: July 23rd, 2017, 6:51 am
Reportedly the only plywood pieces are the bulkheads between the stove/fridge and sink/bath, correct? I mean, besides in the sofa/dinette area.
It seems every unit is built slightly differently, but in mine, what you have listed above, plus the shower front, the overcab front, between the closet/fridge, the fridge floor, the closet's top and bottom, the bits in the tire locker (long gone), etc. Then of course the walls are lauan, and anywhere there's a shelf or cabinet bottom. Hope that's not an over-answer to your question, and maybe you're just wondering about structural stuff? But yeah there are several places with plywood. Then obviously there's the subfloor, and in my era, the ceiling is a plywood core.
I have a question about the various boards and composite panels there on the walls and ceiling. (The ones the overhead cabinets are screwed into, etc.)
Are they embedded in the body fiberglass?
The overhead cabinets screw to the ceiling and walls, as I'm sure you know. In my rig, the ceiling is a bonded sandwich comprised of the outer shell, a 3/4" plywood core, then another fiberglass layer about 1/8" thick, to which the hull liner is glued. So the upper part of the upper cabinets just screw into that with wood screws, which BTW can slowly back out and are worth checking (you've probably done this and I'm probably over-answering your question again). The walls are comprised of a lattice of solid wood strips which are, if memory serves, 2" wide depending on location (there are schematics for this stuff floating around somewhere). Those strips (studs?) are stapled to each other and then bonded to the Chinook shell with resin (and sometimes a bondo-ish stuff ). This type of lumber also surrounds the window openings vaguely similar to residential framing (very vaguely). To that wood matrix, the 1/8 lauan walls are stapled. The lower portion of the upper cabinets are screwed to those studs.
It seems every unit is built slightly differently, but in mine, what you have listed above, plus the shower front, the overcab front, between the closet/fridge, the fridge floor, the closet's top and bottom, the bits in the tire locker (long gone), etc. Then of course the walls are lauan, and anywhere there's a shelf or cabinet bottom. Hope that's not an over-answer to your question, and maybe you're just wondering about structural stuff? But yeah there are several places with plywood. Then obviously there's the subfloor, and in my era, the ceiling is a plywood core.
I have a question about the various boards and composite panels there on the walls and ceiling. (The ones the overhead cabinets are screwed into, etc.)
Are they embedded in the body fiberglass?
The overhead cabinets screw to the ceiling and walls, as I'm sure you know. In my rig, the ceiling is a bonded sandwich comprised of the outer shell, a 3/4" plywood core, then another fiberglass layer about 1/8" thick, to which the hull liner is glued. So the upper part of the upper cabinets just screw into that with wood screws, which BTW can slowly back out and are worth checking (you've probably done this and I'm probably over-answering your question again). The walls are comprised of a lattice of solid wood strips which are, if memory serves, 2" wide depending on location (there are schematics for this stuff floating around somewhere). Those strips (studs?) are stapled to each other and then bonded to the Chinook shell with resin (and sometimes a bondo-ish stuff ). This type of lumber also surrounds the window openings vaguely similar to residential framing (very vaguely). To that wood matrix, the 1/8 lauan walls are stapled. The lower portion of the upper cabinets are screwed to those studs.