Recently I bought an Avion slide in camper, a 1967 model C-10. It needs some work, I knew that when I bought it. I'll have to admit, though, that it needs a bit more than I realized.
I bought it in Indiana and brought it back to Austin, Texas, where it'll get brought
back to a usable shape.
I'll try to post pictures and progress reports as I go along and have time.
This is our other life: Our ocean going sailboat and cruising.Now, on to the Avion C-10:
Over the past month I did a bit of work to it.
I removed the non-working refrigerator, the original one, and got it working.
I removed some obstructions
in the coils, turned it upside down for a bit, and got it working on electric. Then, after soaking some of the gas
parts in carburator cleaner and replacing the thermocouple, it worked fine on gas. I don't know how long it'll last,
since all the coils were pretty rusty, but for now it's doing fine.
The propane tanks were very rusty and I thought they were toast. I took them to one of the bigger propane
shops here and asked about buying new ones. He looked at them and said he'd never seen any like that. He suggested
I clean them up, then have the new valves put in. Even though they were very rusty, they had no pitting and he said
they'd be fine. After removing all the paint with paint remover, then using acid to remove all the rust, I re-painted
then and they look great. 2 tanks salvaged!
Today I started in ernest on the restoration and dessassembled quite a bit of it.