Episode 3: Ally, Move

In this episode I take off one of the wheels to measure it. I studied the Wheel Vintiques Fitment Guide to figure out what to measure.

A. RIM DIAMETER

This is the actual diameter of the wheel at the point where the tire bead seats (not the outer lip).

B. RIM WIDTH

Measure this from the inside of the outer lip at the bead seating point to the inner lip.

C. BACKSPACING

A very important measurement is from the inside of the wheel at the point where it contacts the hub, brake drum or axle flange to the outside edge (lip) of the wheel.

D. BOLT PATTERN

Count the number of mounting holes for the wheel and determine the diameter of a circle that would run through their center. 

etrailer.com has a good guide for the bolt spacing on 5 lug wheels.

Measuring the distance between the centers of adjacent holes, D

If D = 2-5/8", then the bolt pattern is 5 on 4-1/2"

If D = 2-3/4", then the bolt pattern is 5 on 4-3/4"

If D = 3", then the bolt pattern is 5 on 5"

If D = 3-1/4", then the bolt pattern is 5 on 5-1/2"

Notice none of the websites are particularly concerned about the hole in the middle. Well it's damned important! The hubs on this trailer require a 4" hole in the wheel, way bigger than average. 

The tire being on the wheel means I can't measure the rim width directly. But that and the rim diameter are stamped in the metal. 15x6. That'd be 15 inches by 6 inches.

These wheels have 7" tires on them. I almost couldn't get them in the wheel wells. I must be careful not to go any bigger than this.

I have seen some people doing vintage Airstream rebuilds and they put giant aggressive wheels and nobby tires on them. This is absolutely not the way I'm going with Ally Mo. The wheels are meant to blend in with the whole aesthetic. I am not going for a silk slip and combat boots here. 

After I took the wheel off and measured it I put it back on and got ready to move Ally Mo out of the way. My father gave me his old drill press for my art wood project and I need to run power to the shed for it. I've been putting off running power to the shed ever since I moved back here and started fixing this place up. You'll see why. It's not just the expense of copper wire and subpanels, it's the effort of digging in the conduit. It's going to be a bitch. I don't want overhead wires. I'd rather keep running an extension cord to the pole.

I got some help on moving the trailer from Otis Forbes. He used to work for my father's construction company. He helps me with things that are beyond my expertise and ability. When my house foundation failed Otis came with a concrete mixer and his expertise in pouring foundations and helped me fix it. And when I needed to thin some trees he came with a chainsaw and took care of it. Anyway, Otis went by my dad's shop and picked up the drill press and brought it to me. Then we moved the trailer. While he was here I had him get out his chain saw and cut a slice off a light'rd log to see if it would make a good cake plate. It wasn't as fat as I thought so I abandoned that project immediately. But I'm glad to know now.

While we were jacking up the trailer to take out the blocks my brother put under it one of the stacks tipped over and dropped Ally Mo on its noggin. The stack of blocks was turned so the long direction was front to back, like the blocks under Ally Min. This is the wrong direction for stability when jacking up either side. When I put blocks under it in the new location I turned them the other way.

Going forward it seems like I need a three point system for safety. A tongue jack and all four wheels on the ground would be a good start. I may make a little ramp to lift the low side and then put jack stands under.

As a sidebar to this video I have another one where I fix the impact driver that failed to drive a sheet metal screw into an old pine stud.

Here's the subtitles for this episode:

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Hi, my name is Barbara. I'm a blank builder and a blogger 

and I'm on a mission to rebuild and repurpose

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This 71 year old aircraft construction aluminum trailer home

Ally Mo

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I'm gonna have to take this thing off to see if I have the 

right backspacing

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It looks like I've got on here a 3/4" socket

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It seems to be the right size. But what am I going to do 

about this?

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Let's chock it 

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It is reassuring that this spins well

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That's good enough for around the yard. I think it would 

probably get hot on the highway

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I can't find my WD-40, but I found this Liquid Wrench 

without a nozzle

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And this spray can aid, so I'm going to see if I can make 

this squirt

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Oh, yeah. This is very efficient

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The solvent goes where the solvent's needed!

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Straight edge across

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And measure from here

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To the straight part. 3 5/8" is what it says 

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Alright, so 3 5/8" backspace?

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Doublecheck with a different ruler

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Still looks like about 3 5/8"

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Yep, 3 5/8" with all the different measurements

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I'm not sure if I want to put this wheel back on right now 

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because it smells of  Liquid Wrench

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So I'm just going to put these bolts back in the holes

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For safe keeping

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Now I can collect all the measurements I need to find a new 

wheel

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This hole in the middle of the wheel is extra large. 4 whole

inches

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Only a few Jeeps and trucks have hubs this big anymore, so I

think this feature is going to be the hardest to match

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Next I need to know the diameter of the circle through all 

the bolt holes

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Labeled here D, for diameter. I'm going to figure it out by 

measuring x, the distance between adjacent holes

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I'm not going to do geometry here, I'm going to look this up

online 

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3 1/4" between the center of the holes means it's a 5 1/2" 

circle

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This measurement is the backspace. It's 3 5/8" 

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15 x 6 is the rim diameter and width, in inches. Now I'm 

prepared for online shopping

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I want to run power from this 200 Amp panel to my shed

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This means digging a trench and running conduit

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Ally Mo is in the way

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My father got a new drill press and he's gonna let me have 

his old one. But he wouldn't let me take it in my car 

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He said to get a man with a trailer. That sounds like a job 

for Otis Forbes. 

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So I called Otis and asked him to get the drill press for me

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and then help me move Ally Mo while he's here. 

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When the coast is clear I can run my power. And I should 

start repainting the shed

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This is the last time I'm moving this with three wheels

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Something made a noise up here when I let that down

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Oh, shit! I lifted it off of this stack. That's not really 

what I meant to do

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So what happened? Well, that's off too.

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I don't know what I did

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Alright, I'm not sure what's gonna happen. I gotta jack up 

this other corner 

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and it's gonna go back down on that other side

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Looks pretty level

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Maybe a little low on the left side

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It's the new spot for now

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I got the weight off of the wheels. Tires, really.

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Because these old worn out tires I don't trust em with 

weight on em

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They will go flat

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Better to have them go flat without weight on them

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I'll still have to jack it up to get them off and to get new

tires on

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But I think it's ok for today!

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I'm excited to get this thing cleaned up. Gonna look so good

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Oh, let's check what happened where I dropped the trailer on

the 

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What do you call the skirt? The skirt?

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I dropped it on the skirt because of this wheel missing

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The Notorious Missing Wheel

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It makes it completely unbalanced

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And this front corner took a dive

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And sat right down on this aluminum and squushed it.

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So that's never gonna be the same again

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But you know, it's pretty strong. It just goes to show you 

just how thick this is

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Heavy gauge aluminum, it just sort of mushed

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I could, I dunno

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On the other one when I took the tongue off I had to patch 

in all this

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So it's possible to patch this in

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Or take it off. I could take that part off and redo the 

whole front

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Make the whole apron go around the tongue and everything. 

That might be interesting 

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This shed used to have power coming in through this 

weatherhead. The wiring into the panel was copper 

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and then aluminum wire went through the air and into a power

distribution panel in the well house 

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I can't explain these taped up lumps. I cut this down 15 

years ago but saved it as an artifact

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In the 20 years this place was abandoned prescribed fire 

destroyed the well house  

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and burned up this corner of the shed

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I sistered in new wood against the burned up stuff,  

replaced what was totally gone and screwed the metal to it 

again

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That's how I ended up with this triple stud situation

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I think I can screw a subpanel on there and bring conduit up

 through the corrugation in the wall

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I prefer buried utilities

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It's not real flat

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But the box does fit pretty good

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I like that there's three mounting holes, one for each stud

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I'll just make it flatter

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That's better

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Building code says electrical conduit has to be 18" deep, so

I got some more digging to do

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Now this is a bit higher than it needs to be, but I'm going 

to cut end off

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That's gonna be great. Awesome 

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So this'll get a fitting like that

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Then that goes on like that and then you screw it to the 

wall

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And then you put the nut on it, it's gonna be awesome

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If you're looking at this 50 feet of conduit thinking, 

"Barbara

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That's a lot of digging!

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Especially since it goes past these two giant longleaf 

pines.

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Think of the roots, Barbara! Think of the roots you're gonna

have to dig through!"

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Yeah, I'm thinking about it! I'm thinkin' about it!

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I'm thinking about it

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I'm just gonna dig a little bit until I get too tired and 

then I'll dig some more the next day

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That's all I can do in one day

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It's hard, y'all

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It's hard to dig. It hurts my back

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That's all for today go buck yourself

Episode 2: The Treasures of Ally Mo

With Ally Mo parked on the East side of the shed I decided to clean up inside a bit. I collected up all the junk that was on the kitchen counter and in the sink in a cement mixing tub and separated the garbage from the potential treasure. After a very thorough scrubbing in the sink of Ally Min I assessed what I sort of artistic improvements I could make to these ordinary items to make them into the kind of vintage treasure worthy of my Etsy shop.

The Cast Iron Candle Sconce:

I wire brushed this rusty cast iron wall decoration and gave it a few coats of Penetrol to seal it. Then I sanded it with emery paper to bring up some highlights and gave it one more coat. It's very attractive now. Now that I think about it, what it really needs is an electric light to go with it. I may have something.

I tried making an aluminum ring to go around the bottom of the electric light by shaping it with PVC pipe on the vise. I was thinking I'd put a buck rivet in it, but I forgot I would need room for the bucking bar on the inside. I used a ball peen hammer to set the rivet and it made a big ol mess. And then the whole thing was just too big. I forgot about pop rivets or I might have done it again.

Next I tried a broken belt Brenna gave me. That didn't work either.

Then I tried another piece of black leather belt and made that work. I used Pop rivets on it, but my iphone battery died and I didn't get video of how pop rivets work. Plenty of time for that later. 

All my life I've known about pop rivets and only recently learned about buck rivets. And then when I was shopping on McMaster for the right kind of rivets to fix the windows in Ally Min I found out that Pop is a BRAND NAME! I had no idea. I thought it was a description, but no, it's like Kleenex is a facial tissue. Pop rivets are actually blind rivets. They were invented in the 1920s.

You can buy this if you would like to support my project. Ally Mo needs new tires!

The Oil Lamp:

There was a bottle of lamp oil and a sooty little oil lamp in Ally Mo. I took out the wick and washed and dried it in the sun so it isn't so flammable anymore and I washed the glass and polished the metal. I wasn't convinced it was a real antique though so I wanted to add something hand made to be sure it was Etsy eligible. And I wanted an excuse to show what a buck rivet it. So I made a little riveted trivet for the lamp. I had a scrap of marine aluminum alloy leftover from Ally Min that I used to make the trivet. I marked the holes with a pencil and an awl then I drilled the holes on my new drill press. I rounded the edges with a file in my vise. I overtightened it I think and deformed the shape a bit. I cut the rivets as short as possible and used the pneumatic alligator squeezers to set them. Then I cut a piece of exterior grade carpet and put it on the bottom with contact cement. The glass lamp wanted to skid around on the metal so I added some sticky corners I cut out of the empty sheets of anti-skid feet I put on my board games.

You can buy the oil lamp too! Ally Mo has FOUR WHEELS!

The Brass Chamberstick Lamp:

This artifact turned treasure was a lot of work. I started a separate timeline to edit it and it turned out to be so long I decided not to paste it into Episode 2 but to let it be it's own video. 

I didn't film myself shoving the wire into the tube that runs up the lamp or the fiddly adjustment of the nuts to get it to line up just exactly right so the cord didn't stick out too far and make it not sit flat. That was pretty hard to do and also impossible to film because it involved me contorting and struggling to get all my core strength into it.

The patina solution is also presented as a complete mystery. If you want to try this at home you're going to have to do the research. The process I used is called rokusho, but it is spelled a lot of different ways. One of my favorite papers is "Japanese irogane alloys and patination – a study of production and application" and you can download the PDF from Sheffield Hallam University. I've already done my experiments for my board games so I have a feel for how the solution should look and act so I can do it by eye. You should start with measurements and work up to that. This is why I started with the evaporate from my previous work. 

The main ingredients are copper sulfate, copper acetate, citric acid, and salt. The water should be really hot.

After all that work on that lamp I looked online for how much brass lamps cost. A lot. The price I put on this lamp on Etsy may seem exorbitant, but think of it as partly paying for the lamp, and partly paying for the entertainment of seeing how I made it look that way. I am footing the bill for shipping! I'm all about service.

The Rest

I made a little pine needle collar for that jelly jar, but after trying to photograph it I decided not to put it on Etsy. I don't know what it's for? Any ideas?

Then there's this little tea cup. It's cute, but I don't think it's feasible for me to ship it. If anybody wants to pay for shipping I'll happily pack it up for you. But it weighs too much for the value.

The same is true of this coffee cup. Plus there's a defect in the bottom of it. If it was perfect I might put it on Etsy, but like this, nah. If anybody wants it though, let me know. You can have it free if you pay for shipping!

I'm using the green cup, yellow plate, and pyrex dish in my lab for various tasks. I like lots of little empty dishes when I'm working on jewelry and sewing.

I used that dish rack in March when all of a sudden my niece had to get married at my place. My new nephew washed all the champagne and water glasses and put them in that dish rack to drip so I could pick them up and dry them.

I'm going to take a day off tomorrow to sew and then I'm going right back to editing! I'm really excited to edit Episode 6. I have decided I must do all the episodes in order so the progression of my editing skills is smooth.

Thanks for your interest in restoring old junk! 

Go buck yourself.

*** update ***

In this video I speculated that Ally Mo has the original sheet vinyl floor. I was wrong about that. I looked underneath by the front door and I can tell a strip of plywood by the wall has been replaced. They'd have to take up the flooring to do that. This is not the original pattern. I have looked and looked online but I can't find any pictures of what the original floors looked like.

Here's the subtitles for this episode in case it helps find specific info:

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Hi, my name is Barbara.

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I'm a blank builder and a blogger and I'm on a mission to 

rebuild and repurpose 

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this 71 year old aircraft construction aluminum trailer home

 Ally Mo. 

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I want to start cleaning this place up in as small a doses 

as I can handle

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Oh, nope! I'm out

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I got these contractor trash bags at the grocery store

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And they're fucking SCENTED! I'm so angry

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This cup is chipped. It's trash.

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This rack is rusty. It's trash

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This little lid... is fine. I'll save that

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This plastic plate

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This lid, also good

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Anybody need a lantern?

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These are Italian! Treasure

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Pyrex. OK

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That's an unusual jelly jar. I haven't seen one like that in

 a long time

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That's actually a Ball jar. That's good. Save that.

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This little cast iron sconce is fine. Nothin' wrong with 

that. It's a little crooked.

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OK  . Now it's perfect

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This is a can

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Actually I need this. I need a cup just like this so I can 

saw the bottom off

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and use it as a funnel for putting pine needles in bags

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This has mouse pee in it

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It has a mark, and it's not chipped. This could be a 

valuable cup 

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 This says Royal Copenhagen Royal Cumberland. Could be a 

valuable cup. I'll save it

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I think this is the lid to the can

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And this is oil for the lamp

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Nothing wrong with this. Keep that

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This dish rack is ok

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This is the knob off the stove. Cool 

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This is a stick

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OK, so I'll take this stuff out to the lab and wash it up 

and start my treasure collection  

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OK, the problem with this is the little nurdule is broken

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That's why this doesn't stay on I bet

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This one's broken. I wonder if I can get new ones of these? 

New stem

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That is a project for another day

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I wonder if this lifts up? I bet it does. You ready?

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Ugh! Gross!

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I wonder what that's from? That will be an interesting day

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Let's see what we've got in these drawers?

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Red white and blue grommets. Anodized aluminum grommets

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Mouse trap

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And these are the mirror clips out of that Spartan. 

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Which are a prized collectible for people who are trying to 

do these things original, so I'm going to save these 

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And an original screw, too. And another original screw

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I'll save all this stuff, these original screws

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The original quality of screws in this is really high

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But the rest of this is crap

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These two are stuck

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It's not a bad looking cabinet though. If it was cleaned up 

and whatnot

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The construction is not bad

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I wonder if I can tell why these are stuck?

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This one is coming apart

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There's an interesting detail of this drawer

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When it was original this was meant to be a vanity

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This is where you kept all your makeup in all these little 

compartments

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And there was a fold up lid and there was a mirror, so the 

mirror folded up

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So that's why there were mirror clips in here probably

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They probably came off the actual mirror that was on the 

inside of the lid that dropped down into this little drawer

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Which is kind of sweet. I'd kind of like to rebuild that

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Also look at the drawer slides on this

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They're wooden slides that sort of come out because the 

drawer comes out so far

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And here's the dovetails on the edge

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It's kinda damaged. Because it's plywood and it's 

delaminated

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It would be better remade out of solid wood

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But watch when it slides. How it goes in. 

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Now see how straight it stays?

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And here's the side of it that holds this slide

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It's kinda cool

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I'm still trying to figure out why this drawer won't open

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It gets that far and stops

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I can't see anything interfering with it

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Oh! You have to lift up, ok

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So it doesn't come out when you're driving. I see

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Yeah that's why. That would stop it from sliding open when 

you were driving

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The bottom is delaminated

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These are original Spartan screws

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This is probably modern day mouse droppings though

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All these drawers the glue has completely dried and come 

apart

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Which makes it actually easy to fix em. You can just reglue 

em

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Sand them and reglue it

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It's in pretty good shape

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I wonder why the top part of this badge is cut off?

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Anyway, Spartan put their serial numbers in the door frame 

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The first number is the length, 33 feet. They also made a 

24, 25, and 30.

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The middle number is the year

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Ally Mo was built in 1949. 4 years after the end of World 

War II.

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435 is the actual serial number. They started with 33-48-1 

the year before

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I wonder what these patents are for? I will look them up

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<font color='#000000'>All four of these patents are for combination furniture </font>

<font color='#000000'>invented by G.R. Shutes</font>

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<font color='#000000'>All four of these patents are for combination furniture </font>

<font color='#000000'>invented by G.R. Shutes</font>

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<font color='#000000'>The first is a table and cabinet</font>

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<font color='#000000'>The second patent is 4 pieces of furniture in one. Vanity, </font>

<font color='#000000'>writing desk, laundry hamper, and seat.</font>

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<font color='#000000'>Get it, Grr Schutes! </font>

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<font color='#060606'>The third design patent is for a chair and magazine rack in </font>

<font color='#060606'>one.</font>

<font color='#060606'> </font>

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<font color='#040404'>And finally another table/cabinet combo. This drawing shows </font>

<font color='#040404'>a curve like the back of the trailer.</font>

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<font color='#000000'>Were these inventions licensed by Spartan Aircraft and never</font>

<font color='#000000'> implemented? None of these are present in this trailer</font>

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<font color='#000000'>I guess that vanity cabinet bookshelf was also a writing </font>

<font color='#000000'>desk. Grr Schutes's prior art must've applied to that design</font>

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Check out this 71 year old vinyl flooring

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I misspoke before. Real linoleum is ground up cork mixed 

with linseed oil and pressed into a woven jute backing. 

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But a vinyl substitute was invented in the 1930s and 

production ramped up after World War II

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It became hugely popular, and rightly so

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It seems indestructible. But, not gonna lie, this pattern is

 not for me

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My childhood home burned down in 1984, leaving behind this 

patch of vinyl flooring

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I think I'll clean it too

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When I was little I knocked a drinking bird off the bathroom

 counter

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It made a bad red stain, my constant shame

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Whenever I found a new cleaning product I would scrub it 

again, which must've affected the adhesive

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The house completely burned down and the vinyl just mellowed

 there under the ashes for 20 years

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Then I came along and cleaned it off and for another 15 

years its been in the weather

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Sheet vinyl, for when you want your floor to look like 

chewed gum. Mmm, fruity!

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This is a buck rivet

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Typically you put them through holes in two sheets of 

aluminum

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One person holds a bucking bar on the inside

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And somebody else uses this air hammer on the outside

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As you can see it's is problematic to even demonstrate the 

process alone

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But I'm just making this buck rivet trivet as a decoration, 

there is no inside and outside

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There's only edges, and  I have a better way

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Without the bucking bar the hammer doesn't expand the rivet,

 the hole is just a tight fit

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I need more air

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A properly set rivet doesn't just squash out in the back, it

expands inside the hole

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So the connection is truly airtight and water tight. 

Remember, this is aircraft technology

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This tool is called an alligator squeezer

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I got it used on ebay to rebuild the doors on Ally Min.

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You can pick out my new larger rivets. The original ones are

small

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People restoring old Airstreams seem to constantly deal with

leaks, but not me

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Maybe since my Spartans were made right after World War II 

the riveters really had their skills dialed in

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See this lamp on the floor that looks like a candlestick?

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Let's see if it's junk, or if it's treasure

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Ceramic and brass? Nickel knob? I think this is a quality 

lamp

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I'm working on photos for the Treasures of Ally Mo for my 

Etsy shop

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and I was working on this wall sconce and it didn't look 

right that I didn't have a picture of it in place

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So I decided to hang it on the wall here in Ally Min to 

demonstrate it

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And then I remembered I have this electric candle that can 

go in a wall sconce like this

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Bright

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This works pretty good, but this rubber part sticks out

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So I could just cut it off so that it goes all the way in

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But what I could do is make a little aluminum trim piece 

that goes around the bottom

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I made this too big. Fuck it. Next idea!

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And that's the treasures of Ally Mo. Go buck yourself

Episode 1: Shed Spartan is a Yard Spartan Now

This is my 1949 Spartan Royal Mansion. I bought it from a man in Florida eight years ago. I paid $2000 for it, delivered. I stuck it in my shed and haven’t touched it.

1949 Spartan in the shed since 2012

In January 2020 I decided it was time to work on it. Inside the shed it was really dark and kind of scary, so when my brother and his girlfriend were here one weekend I made them help me move it outside. I don’t know what I’m going to do with it yet. I just want the room.

Preferred parking place for the Spartan

The shed spartan is a yard spartan now.

There's a length of aluminum skirting that unscrews for access to the wheel wells

One screw would not come out and I had to grind it off. It was a brass screw. This showed little corrosion against the aluminum so I think brass is a pretty good screw option.

I’m missing a wheel on the right side. This is a 30’ trailer with 2 axles. The men that delivered it borrowed a wheel off another truck they had and they took it with them when they left. I’ve been trying to find a replacement this whole time.

I decided to try moving it with just three wheels. I think it would’ve worked better if my grandma’s old isuzu was a little higher. The hub was gouging out the ground. We really wore out what was left of that old truck’s poor clutch too.

I actually bought two Spartan Royal Mansions in 2012. The other one was manufactured in 1951. It was missing an entire axle. I paid $900 for it.

Ally Min with the one axle

This wheel had 2 lug nuts

Ally Min's wheels take 6 lug nuts. Ally Mo has hubs with 5 holes for bolts

I repurposed the 1951 Spartan straight away. I wasn’t sure what I would do with two of these revolting old trailers, but since there were two available at the same time it just seemed logical to get a spare.

It worked out pretty great for the real glass marker lights. The one with both axles only had one light, but the other one had the other three. So I should be able to rig up some new brackets with LEDs to make this one have some neat lights on it.

I need this light on Ally Mo to round out the set. Ally Min had the other 3.

Inside Ally Mo there was a cabinet randomly sitting in the middle of the observation lounge. This was moved from its original spot because the previous owner wanted to get the refrigerator out. He said it still worked and he was using it. I let him have it. I still have the original refrigerator from the 1951 Spartan. It did not work. I took the compressor out and refinished it and use it like furniture.

Here's some photos of the refrigerator from the 1951 Spartan.

Here it is after I cleaned it up and took it to an auto painter and had it painted BMW Speed Yellow because I thought that was hilarious. Fastest refrigerator in the fifties.

Old refrigerator is just a cabinet now.

Here are some closer photos of some of the bad spots on Ally Mo's aluminum skin.

Terrible corrosion on the bottom of the back door

Rifle entrance wound probably

Scrape and a puncture

Something ferrous was wired on here

This is how they dealt with random penetrations. Glob it up with asphaltic sealant

Exit wound. Whatcha think, .22 caliber?

Something poked this hard.

This is some kind of latch for holding the door open. It wasn't a great choice.

I'm not that worried about all this exterior damage because it was fun patching all the stuff like that on Ally Min. Here's some examples.

Round patches over big holes look kind of neat

Here's how I cleaned up rust and patched the spot from the door latch on Ally Min.
The aluminum handle stops the door handle banging into the wall from wind.

Ally Min has a new wider door big enough to get a washer and dryer inside.
A lever handle can go behind the handle on the wall and keep the door open.

I don't know what I'll do with the doors on Ally Mo. I want them to not let lizards and frogs come inside. And roaches. I will think about it.

Here's the subtitles from this episode:

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I've been storing this old trailer for 8 years.

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I bought two at the same time. I rebuilt one and stuck this 

one in the shed.

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Linda: It's got to go a little bit forward

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I don't have plans for a grand adventure in a vintage 

trailer

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I just want to free up all that room in my shed.

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And if I clean this thing up and make it mouseproof? I'd 

have another 240 square feet of studio space.

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Linda: OK, now look. Look!

Harry: Somebody needs to back the truck up.

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My brother and his girlfriend came to visit and helped me 

move the trailer

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Barbara: I'll go a tiny bit.

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This Isuzu was my grandmother's daily driver. 25 years ago.

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Linda: Perfect!

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Harry: Alright, Clutch!

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Harry: Is it out?

Linda: Yeah.

Barbara: No, you're not out.

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Barbara: There's still a lot of trailer behind the wheels.

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Key detail here: There's supposed to be two wheels on this 

side. There's a bare hub dragging on the ground

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Linda: Excellent.

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Barbara: What smells weird?

Harry: The clutch

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01:01:54,000 --> 01:01:57,000

Harry: How am I doing with that tree?

Barbara: You're good. You're good on the tree side. 

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Linda: Go forward, straighten it out, and then back it 

straight up.

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Barbara: That might be as good as it can get until I get 

another wheel.

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Harry: Go straight back now?

Barbara: Yeah.

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Barbara: STOP!

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Barbara: I can always move it again later if I get a wheel.

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Harry: The truck is kind of struggling

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Harry: I think I can move it just back. Make it a little bit

 more even.

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Barbara: It's awful close to the side of the shed. I don't 

think I'll be able to work on that side easily?

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Harry: I like the paneling. A lot.

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Harry: Haha, this is a weird fix. I guess the window leaked?

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Linda: The windows roll down! Like a car.

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01:04:05,233 --> 01:04:10,033

Harry: Eww! It stinks like

Oh, there's a rat nest or a mouse nest.

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Barbara: All they gots to go!

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Harry: My nostrils are burning now. 

Barbara: Right, let's get out of here. 

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Harry: I might've gotten hantavirus.

Barbara: There's no hantavirus this side of the Mississippi

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Harry: >KLONK

Barbara: Awww, gosh!

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Linda: Ahh the hazards of being tall!

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Barbara: Oh, even I hit my head on that thing.

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The next day we worked on the blocks a bit more

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Hi. My name is Barbara. I'm a blank builder and a blogger

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and I'm on a mission to rebuild and repurpose this 71 year 

old

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aircraft construction aluminum trailer home, Ally Mo.

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Now what is the deal with this missing wheel?

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When the previous owner delivered this trailer in 2012 they 

used a wheel from another vehicle they owned

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They towed it over here from Blountstown and backed it right

into the shed.

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They brought a floor jack with them and put it on blocks for

me. Then they took the right front wheel. 

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01:05:45,400 --> 01:05:50,400

I wasn't worried about it because I'd bought another 

Spartan that was missing an entire axle

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And I was planning to take off the remaining axle and put it

up on blocks for good.

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So I'd have two whole extra wheels.

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I'd completely finished rebuilding the 1951 Spartan, 

currently nomenclatured Ally Min,

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before I noticed they changed from a 5 bolt pattern in 1949 

to a 6 bolt pattern in 1951.

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OK, I've been operating under a false assumption. I thought 

these were 5 on 5 spacing

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Which would mean that this distance should be three inches

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But this is three and a quarter. 

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It's 3 1/4. There's no way that... How would I think that 

was 3?

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It's obviously 3 1/4.

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Yes, I measured three times. Shut up! I'm not an expert in 

wheels.

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The underside is like tarpaper. Like really thick tarpaper. 

Some asphalt impregnated masonite or something.

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And these aluminum channels, I guess, are holding it up? 

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So what I gotta do is come under here and remove these 

aluminum channels and let all of this drop away.

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Here's the edge of that stuff. So it was two strips of 4 

foot wide stuff, I guess.

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Two years later they'd switched to aluminum going across the

 bottom of the trailer

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Taking off the belly pan was one of the first things I did 

on Ally Min

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I wanted to put piers under it and the belly pan had to go 

first

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They'd also switched from rock wool to fiberglass insulation

 by 1951.Yuck

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Working on a slab was nice for that part. I don't want to 

get insulation in the grass. 

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It would be a lot easier to work under here if I jacked this

thing up even higher.

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But not today

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This is the only clearance light left on Ally Mo

 

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This part is glass and stainless steel.

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It'll clean up nice, like this one from Ally Min

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That Spartan had 3 clearance lights.

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Amber for the front, red for the back

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Since Ally Min is now a permanent structure I put patches 

where all the lights used to be.

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I used a marine grade alloy for my patches. After 7 years in

 the weather they're still shiny. I don't mind.

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I have not touched the inside of this since I bought it 8 

years ago

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This is something I looked at and said, "Wow! I want to pay 

$1000 for that!"

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In fact I think I paid $1500

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The door is about 5'8"

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So I can go in it no problem but I often hit my head coming 

out

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This piece of paneling covers up a roof vent 

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There's a hole right here in the roof.

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So I guess at some point they just covered it up

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This closet is where the electrical is located

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Latching handles are kinda cool

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I guess the latch is broken

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There used to be a heater right here

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The stock units had a heater so there's a sort of a roof 

vent right there.

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Where anything and everything can come and go as it pleases

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So I like to remove things like that and just patch the hole

 in the roof

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I haven't cleaned this at all. This is the way it was 

delivered to me.

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I paid money for this

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These little shelves are original

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And I don't know what these little holes are for. 

Ventilation?

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This is one of the roof vents. There's another one under 

that ceiling that's just covered over.

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What I did on the other Spartan was I took out all this 

business in the middle. 

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I put closed cell foam on the bottom side of the cover 

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And then just used a cricket clamp and just cinched it down 

tight

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And I don't often open the covers

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But I still have the vents, in the other Spartan. 

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And they haven't leaked or given me any problems. They're 

air tight.

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Look, it came with a fire extinguisher

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There's a sort of a duct from the heater. Interesting

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The kitchen was just this nasty when I bought this thing. 

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The other one I just gutted it.

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I didn't try to clean it or do anything, but, I don't know.

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We'll see when I get into it what I want to do

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Another roof vent

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Here's a dome light just like in a car.

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I don't remember there being one of those in the other 

Spartan

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This stove is original. It was a propane gas stove.

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And it's probably in pretty good shape. I don't know what 

the hell this is

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I think a rat has probably built a nest in there. That's 

awesome.

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But I will probably remove this and clean it up and see what

 the story is. 

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Maybe I can use that

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I don't even have an oven in my house

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01:13:06,199 --> 01:13:08,433

There doesn't seem to be any rats living in there

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I think it's weird though, how it covers up the cabinet?

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I mean, why is there a door there? How are you supposed to 

use it?

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But that's really the way they made em. Just weird.

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It really takes up a lot of space

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To actually use the thing it would be better to not have 

this cabinet and just have a hot plate or whatever

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Oh here's an example of what the insulation is like

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It's like a rockwool product

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And the rats and mice have been extricating it from the 

inside of the walls and floor this whole time

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This little tightness here? I don't like that

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The way this door works it's a slider

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01:14:03,800 --> 01:14:07,966

But it's so very narrow. Still works though

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I can't even back up far enough to show it without bumping 

my head on the ceiling

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But it's just really dark and creepy in here.

129

01:14:19,300 --> 01:14:23,100

But it's not nearly as dark and creepy in here now that I've

 moved it out of the shed

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It needs to be gutted

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And even these cabinets that look nice, its a nice curved 

surface

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But down at the bottom the plywood is delaminated and it's 

just not....

133

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It just all smells gross and is just too damaged by moisture

134

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The floor is damaged

135

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It just all has to be thrown away

136

01:14:56,733 --> 01:14:58,766

But I'll save the parts I can

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01:14:59,766 --> 01:15:06,466

Look at this little light switch with a pull switch. The 

whole wall flexes when you pull on it

138

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This window is broken. There's a piece of plexiglass stuck 

in there.

139

01:15:15,699 --> 01:15:18,699

I need to get a new roll-up window

140

01:15:18,699 --> 01:15:22,899

I replaced these, I mean, I replaced the gasket and stuff, 

in the other Spartan

141

01:15:23,899 --> 01:15:28,566

You know it probably took me two weeks of just working on 

the back windows

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01:15:29,466 --> 01:15:31,899

I took these parts off and repainted them

143

01:15:32,666 --> 01:15:34,233

And it came out nice

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01:15:34,699 --> 01:15:37,533

The trim around this is kind of weird

145

01:15:37,566 --> 01:15:40,566

I built new trim around the other one, in the other Spartan

146

01:15:40,733 --> 01:15:43,733

And I took off all these window parts and cleaned them and 

repainted them

147

01:15:47,433 --> 01:15:51,966

I do not know why these light fixtures are here. This makes 

no sense.

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This was the bedroom. I don't know where the bed was? I 

guess it came straight off the back?

149

01:16:07,566 --> 01:16:10,566

I'm not sure. Look! There was a phone in here!

150

01:16:11,966 --> 01:16:13,466

Oh, you wanna see the bathroom?

151

01:16:13,466 --> 01:16:17,633

There's a mirror on the back of this door. I don't think the

 other Spartan had that feature

152

01:16:20,000 --> 01:16:21,933

I think these mirror clips are original

153

01:16:23,199 --> 01:16:26,199

And I think there's one missing because a guy in Sweden 

bought one from me

154

01:16:28,533 --> 01:16:31,133

I love this door handle

155

01:16:31,133 --> 01:16:37,566

I took the door handle from the other Spartan and I gave it 

to my Aunt Jano and she uses it on her screen door

156

01:16:37,566 --> 01:16:42,366

Look at the lock on it. You just slide that over and now you

 can't...

157

01:16:42,366 --> 01:16:49,199

Well, if it holds. And then you can't do it from the 

outside. Maybe you have to push it the other way

158

01:16:49,199 --> 01:16:51,233

But anyway, it's a pretty cool door lock

159

01:16:52,166 --> 01:16:55,033

This bathroom is all aluminum

160

01:16:55,033 --> 01:16:58,033

Maybe I can have enough light if I come inside here

161

01:16:58,033 --> 01:17:02,300

The other guy the previous owner tried to polish it to see 

how that would work  

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01:17:02,866 --> 01:17:07,533

It works good. So this could be a very shiny aluminum room

163

01:17:09,833 --> 01:17:11,066

And this is the vent

164

01:17:12,466 --> 01:17:16,733

That looks like some sort of radiation warning

165

01:17:17,899 --> 01:17:19,666

And it's open to the outside

166

01:17:20,533 --> 01:17:23,100

There's a light in here, in the ceiling

167

01:17:23,633 --> 01:17:29,066

And the way it worked was you just stood over the toilet and

 just showered in here

168

01:17:29,066 --> 01:17:30,966

Just washed down the whole thing

169

01:17:33,166 --> 01:17:35,233

It's kind of small and closed in and scary to me

170

01:17:35,533 --> 01:17:40,333

The '51 Spartan had a window right there inside the shower

171

01:17:40,366 --> 01:17:42,633

But this one doesn't

172

01:17:43,533 --> 01:17:45,966

I just took this whole thing out

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01:17:45,966 --> 01:17:48,966

The floor gets really damaged in the shower areas.

174

01:17:49,399 --> 01:17:52,000

So I just gutted all of this out of the other Spartan

175

01:17:52,166 --> 01:17:56,266

I cut it up with a reciprocating saw and took it straight to

 the recyclers

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I got about $170 for it

177

01:17:58,866 --> 01:18:01,866

Even the back of the door was covered in aluminum

178

01:18:04,766 --> 01:18:07,433

On the other one I took that metal to the recyclers

179

01:18:07,533 --> 01:18:11,899

Without realizing it was a different alloy than is available

 today

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01:18:13,233 --> 01:18:15,466

I should have saved all the aluminum for the patches

181

01:18:15,699 --> 01:18:16,699

I didn't know

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01:18:17,000 --> 01:18:17,733

My bad

183

01:18:22,100 --> 01:18:25,833

I don't know. It just reminds me of a brig. I just don't 

know if I want that

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01:18:26,566 --> 01:18:28,066

Kind of spooky

185

01:18:29,566 --> 01:18:32,566

Anyway, that's the inside

186

01:18:36,000 --> 01:18:39,199

Maybe tomorrow I'll clean the kitchen

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01:18:40,866 --> 01:18:43,866

You know, throw this junk away at least.

188

01:18:43,866 --> 01:18:45,899

Or see if it's any good.

189

01:18:45,899 --> 01:18:48,899

I don't know, could be a good coffee cup!

190

01:18:50,899 --> 01:18:52,500

Oh yeah

191

01:18:53,600 --> 01:18:54,800

Gross

192

01:18:54,800 --> 01:18:57,033

Gross gross gross

193

01:18:57,033 --> 01:19:00,033

Gross gross gross gross gross gross gross

194

01:19:20,966 --> 01:19:26,500

I only just realized I got one of the original steps for 

this trailer. They were both broken off Ally Min.

195

01:19:26,500 --> 01:19:29,166

It's supposed to slide under here.

196

01:19:30,866 --> 01:19:33,866

It's going in the shed for now

197

01:19:55,000 --> 01:19:58,000

That was the first episode of the Beachton Buck Rivet Report

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01:19:58,566 --> 01:20:00,133

Go buck yourself