I continue to dodge rainy days. Today we were supposed to have no rain from about 5 AM to 5 PM. It actually started sprinkling about 2PM, so I didn’t get everything I had hoped to done. As thought I’d ever gotten everything I wanted to done.
Mainly I’ve been working on the back of the trailer. I’ve got the right side almost rebuilt. 
The rotten wood is all gone. I had to replace a piece of plywood, as you can see. I still need to glue that to the side beam. This is a storage bay next to the bed, with access from the top.I’m going to remove those screws, put wood putty in the holes, sand and/or scrape the peeling varnish off the original wood, and put a couple good coats of polyurethane inside and out.
On the left side I need to replace a larger chunk of plywood. Like this:
It’s just sitting in place. I need to trim to match the curve of the rear, next time I get some clear weather. After I pulled the old pieces off I found that the posts were loose and the stringer was broken. The two verticals in this picture were attached so poorly I pulled them out by hand, with no tools.
The stringer is broken. Just a poor piece of wood.
So I’m sistering it. I don’t have any wood screws that long, but I’ll get some.
This is where I was when the rain started. Another two or three hours should see the structure glued and polyurethaned. When that’s all cured I can put in the new rear inside panel- the old one was massively disintegrated.
I’m also working on the windows. I’ve rebuilt a couple of them. There are two windows in front, one in the rear, one in each of the two doors, one more on the right side, and four on the left. All but the door windows open. One of the door windows was in fairly decent shape. Not usable as is, but not major problems and little rust. The other was horrible. Somebody had sprayed it with copper paint from the inside, without even masking. Somebody had tried to seal it twice. Once many years ago, using some kind of putty which has hardened. Then over that an attempt with silicone. Neither worked of course. It never does.
But getting it off was a pain. I tried a couple things, but what worked best was chiseling it off, using a plastic hammer and a 2 inch wide flexible steel putty knife. That seemed just the right amount of force to get it off in hours rather than days, but gentle enough not to damage the window frame. Took about two hours of that before it made sense to start with the wire brush. Now that’s all ready to paint and reassemble. Now it looks like this:
