'79 Devon Moonraker resto.

Discussion in 'Restorations' started by brothernumberone, Jan 21, 2012.

  1. I'm digging the colour! great job laying it as well.
     
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  2. Time for an update. I've been working on this around paid work so it's taking a while. Plus everything to do with interiors seems to take forever. The first thing I had to do was get the interior panel cards to fit. The holes are just about in the correct place, but the panels need to be shortened, I guess because they are designed to go to the metal floor on a microbus and a camper floor is higher because of the ply. I could have used them untrimmed and cut the floor to sit against them, but it looks a bit of a lash i think, the floor should go under the interior cards imho;) The card that sits next to the rear wheel housing was just as bad, so trimming both those and then covering them took all the time I'd allocated for fitting the whole interior;)
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    Then I had to make up a few little panels to fill in gaps. with hindsight, it would have been better to cut one long panel to do the whole right side, but I'm not doing it again.
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    Next job was to fix the roof bed. The bed sits on aluminium runners bolted to a wooden frame. Utilising all their skill and ingenuity, the craftsmen at the late 70's Devon workshop made this bending the edges of the roof up, cutting and beating the roof support flat and screwing wood to it. The two long side bits are decent wood, but the end bits where made of chipboard offcuts from the interior units and had broken. This combined with years of use meant that the wood sides had splayed out slightly meaning the bed halves only sat on about half of the runners width. Although it took my weight, I was concerned that one day someone would climb up and the bed would slip through the runners.
    I made a new end bit to replace the broken one, then removed the side sections, rebent the roof metal and used slightly bigger screws to reattach the wood.
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  3. I then recovered the sides in the crappy thin carpet stuff that Devon used. I should really have done everything, but didn't want to pull all the old stuff off the inside of the pop top, so it's not quite the same colour. It look ok, but I've learnt that i don't really like trimming and i'm not very good at it.;)
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    Then I put the rest of the interior units in, or rather repeatedly put them in and took them out, making slight adjustments each time and tried not to chip the paintwork.
    It's an early Moonraker interior with the swing out cooker.:)
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  4. @brothernumberone Marmoleum where do you get that from and how thick is it i.e. do you stick it onto your ply?
     
  5. Bhubesi

    Bhubesi Supporter

    Google Marmoleum, phone them and they will give you the address of your local retailer.
    I laid mine with good old Evostick................which cost getting on for half the cost of the Marmoleum:D
    Its approx 2.5mm thick with a "sacking" type of mesh backing.
    Tony
     
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  6. Love the Interior, you're going a "bang up job"!!
     
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  7. Finished and sold!
    This has been languishing at the back of my workshop for nearly 3 years with me doing bits on it from time to time. I decided to have one last push and finish it off so I could get it sold before I did something stupid like reverse another van into it.
    Every time I do a full restoration, I always swear I'll never do another, it takes so long to finish up all the little jobs, much longer than welding it up or painting it or whatever. Anyway, here it is finished. A couple of pics at my workshop, then a couple at it's new home with the setting sun lighting it. I do like pastel white:)
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  8. JamesLey

    JamesLey Sponsor

    Classy!
     
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  9. So what are you buying to restore next
     
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  10. The next big one is my '71 panelvan. It'll be epic;)
     
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  11. JamesLey

    JamesLey Sponsor

    I've not even finished our van and find myself perusing eBay for a Single cab or Doka to work on after this one!
     
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  12. Love this, it's looking awesome! I'm just wondering, before you put the thermo wrapping down on the floor did you treat the floor with anything? I have my floor up now and and planning on doing something similar, just don't want to do it all to find out I should have treated with waxy or something beforehand....
     
  13. Sorry, only just noticed your question:)
    No, I just left it. I made sure there was no bare metal, but no waxoyl or anything.
     
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