******???? I'm confused about a few things.
Welcome to the club.
Now I don't know a lot about fiberglassing but as veilside says below, the gel coat not setting doesn't make the roof completely unusable does it? Why couldn't the gel coat just be redone?
I sure would have thought so. Even if I was the one to have to get the roof presentable, it'd have been better than no roof at all.
Based on this video on the Red Cannon Expedition Facebook page (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_QN7PklbTg&feature=youtu.be), it sure looks to me that Dion Kranz of Red Cannon Expedition is wearing just a t-shirt while working on your cabin . . .
Yes, Dion always had the Jeep inside. I believe there was a time when the furnace went out for a while in the new building, but I don't believe he did any XV-JP work in the new building.
Didn't Red Cannon Expedition just buy a new building earlier this year? I saw it on their Facebook page . . .
I was surprised to learn just recently that he was working on getting the new building last summer. I wasn't told about it until months later. I don't presume to know the answer to whether my Jeep money helped fund the building. He certainly did spend time fixing up the building in lieu of doing low/no-cost work to get my Jeep in better shape before delivery.
So instead of Dion emailing you back and letting you know that supposedly the gelcoat didn't set well on the lengthened roof, he decides
FOR YOU on
YOUR JEEP, keeps
YOUR Earthroamer top, and sends you this roof mold of his instead, so that you can dump MORE money into his complete abomination of workmanship?
How the hell does that make any sense? I assume that's a rhetorical question, but, no, it doesn't make any sense. That's part of what makes it so irritating.
And to be clear . . . once you unstrap this roof mold and remove the mold, the entire roof front-to-back of the Earthroamer cabin is open sky?? Y
ou understand correctly. You see the sky. (And I will get some additional pictures of the mold posted. I'm appreciating the assessments of what I've got and what I'm expected to do with it.)
And Dion didn't even even drive the vehicle as you asked in your email correspondence? He just ratched-strapped this what-looks-to-be-flimsy mold onto the cabin? You are definitely lucky you sent a transporter to pick it up vs fly out and drive it back. I mean that mold would have flown right off by the time you hit 35mph, no?
Rhetorical, as well? But, yes, that was my point. The mold would have broken, the curbside filler would have fallen out, the wind pressure against the cabin would have broken the fiberglass through which the cabin was held to the tub by two bolts and the cabin would have come off, and then the cab top, also not attached, would have flown off (though you'd have to guess I'd have caught on by then and come to a stop. 1998 miles from home. I've no idea what Dion hoped to accomplish by leaving me stranded in Iowa.
Even the transporting wasn't carefree. The driver said that those orange ratchet straps were his and that he added them because the mold was shifting around and he was worried it would bounce off and damage one of the other cars. (And he was wise, given that it moved around even with the straps.
Anyway, as I said, it was a real disappointment.
) and have a hand in making it Northwest Gen 3. I'll bring my sawall, resin, and Migwelder. Say June so the weather is nice and we have time to compile whatever is needed.
