Before much can be done with the csae side, the top runner from the old side needed to be removed so that it may be fastened to the new side.
Using the band saw the runner was cut off the old side, being careful not to cut into the runner itself. The screws were removed, some of them were still brass although most of them were now copper, and the runner planed to remove the old and damaged plywood leaving the runner fairly well cleaned up.
There were a few problems, this section seems to have fallen away, not entirely sure why since the wood looks to be fairly clean here.
However, like the other side, there are areas in which the wood has become rotten. This will need to be dried, the loose wood and rot scraped away and then the whole area saturated with the Clear Penetrating Epoxy Sealer. Once that is done I shall fill any voids and cracks with thickened epoxy after which the runner may be attached to the new case side.
I took the time yesterday to epoxy the broken support timber since it was a fairly clean break and the repair would be easy. The result turned out to be quite acceptable, as you can see here after the timber had been cleaned up and then sanded.
One other task I decided to do today was the drilling out of the tabernacle bolt hole. This had been filled with epoxy previously as it was drilled at a slope and now needed to be drilled correctly.
This is the result and although the bolts are not fastened down, you can quite clearly see that the offenting bolt, the one on the left, is no longer at an angle.
This is how it looked before the repair.
The bolts protrude into the cabin and there is ample space to fit the nut and washer now, unlike before.
Time for a cup of tea.