We are new to caravanning and just brought a 1990 swife danette, looked great on first inspection but it's as rotten as a pear we've got ideas from site on how to fix inside but has anyone got any ideas how to make good of holes and disintegrating in the outer aluminium . Any suggestions greatly received.
Hi I've also recently discovered holes in our 94 coachman body. I've done a temp repair using car body filler, but with do a better repair with fibreglass on the inside and filler on the outside
Another way would be to epoxy some thin ally sheet to double up the area from inside, then fill etc. outside.
Epoxy is a very good adhesive, and strong, so this would be a lasting repair. Glassfibre(polyester resin) only sticks to itself well, so is not as permanent.
Quote: Originally posted by Al+Mel on 17/4/2011
Another way would be to epoxy some thin ally sheet to double up the area from inside, then fill etc. outside.
Epoxy is a very good adhesive, and strong, so this would be a lasting repair. Glassfibre(polyester resin) only sticks to itself well, so is not as permanent.
Hi, good advice, I have also used just the epoxy and hardner,to fill in the holes when could not get at the rear of a panel,push it right through and it spreads out at rear, clean the face of exsess epoxy, when hard use, the car body fine surface filler, have local paint spray store a few miles away, and they matched the paint to almost the exact colour(12year old so so not exact match,hard to tell though)
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I think that will probably last forever! The only thing epoxy doesn't like is UV. Your fine filler and coat of paint finishes the job and protects the epoxy.
Thanks for all your advice !! Time to start filling. Having great trouble removing internal boards and instalation stuff on the bits that are not rotten. Oh well weathers good.
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Topic: Aluminium repairs
