{"id":22270,"date":"2011-04-23T15:45:17","date_gmt":"2011-04-23T22:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=12020"},"modified":"2016-09-17T12:19:41","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T09:19:41","slug":"seeking-a-white-elephant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/seeking-a-white-elephant\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeking a White Elephant"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I chip away at freshening up Miranda’s exterior<\/a>, I’ve come to accept that part of the job is going to be re-striping her. That’s RV parlance for removing all the decals and putting on new ones. Funny that that should sound like such a small job, but it’s a real bitch. Frankly, I don’t get why RV graphics aren’t just painted on. I’m not convinced that the hassle of apply vinyl neatly is any less than that of programming a graphic into a spray painter.<\/p>\n

Today, I began the onerous task of de-striping the rig. Most of the teal stuff comes off easily with a high pressure spray, but the rest won’t be so easy. The goal here is to get a completely white rig that I will then buff to a smooth and hopefully uniform finish. I have a couple of ideas for how I will be re-striping, but that’s not a priority right now.<\/p>\n

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peeling stripes on the front end<\/p><\/div>\n

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part of the teal came off easily with a stream of high pressure water<\/p><\/div>\n

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bottom stripes are all gone, but notice the grey line: that’s adhesive. It’ll take a buffer to get rid of that.<\/p><\/div>\n

While I had the hose out, I also took the time to Poli Ox the bottom half of the rig, which was the most stained and battered. This was just a light pass with a soft cloth. I will be doing a thorough going over the rig with a buffer later.<\/p>\n

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I considered these lines to be stains; no amount of elbow grease would lighten them<\/p><\/div>\n

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black lines are GONE!!! Poli Ox is awesome!<\/p><\/div>\n

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top half was scrubbed with a vehicle detergent and rinsed with high pressure water; bottom half was lightly rubbed with Poli Ox and rinsed with a gentle mist<\/p><\/div>\n

The most onerous part of the afternoon was picking up all the bits of striping that blew into the yard. I’m sure I didn’t get it all and that I’ll be picking up pieces into the fall!<\/p>\n

This once over with the Polix Ox helped me set some spending priorities. The first is going to be resealing all my seams. That’s going to be a job and a half since it will involve removing all the aluminum capping, scraping it and the rig clean, and then applying the Dicor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I chip away at freshening up Miranda’s exterior, I’ve come to accept that part of the job is going to be re-striping her. That’s RV parlance for removing all the decals and putting on new ones. Funny that that should sound like such a small job, but it’s a real bitch. Frankly, I don’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1041,632,6,1226,635,5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alberta","category-canada","category-homemaking","category-lethbridge","category-north-america","category-rving","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}