[77newell]

Since I redid the water compartment on the 77 coach (no longer ours) I was so proud of how it came out that I used to leave the compartment doors open for everyone to see. All that varnished wood I put in looked pretty cool.

If there is a plan to put the aluminum over the steel there needs to be assurance that there will never ever be metal to metal contact or the aluminum will disappear amazingly quickly. Since no one can see under the floor without groveling in the dirt, which no one did, I treated the old rusty sheet metal floor with used engine oil on both sides and then laid a now sheet of galvanized over it and then epoxy coated fine grain (for appearance) plywood on top of that. I also used W.E.S.T. epoxy and plywood to manufacture a new waste tank to replace the 1/4" plain steel original tank which developed a leak. The new tank looked real nice. One more think. Under the water compartment and adjacent storage compartment I put foam insulation in the spaces between the frame grid to slow down heat loss. I don't know how much that helped but the night it was so cold the quilt on my wife's bed froze to the window we had no water compartment problems.