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07-12-2012, 06:22 PM
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Junior Member
Join Date: May 2011
Location: hanover,pa
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Delamination?
Looking at a 2009 26bhs xl to buy,will the front or rear cap have give to it? Is this a problem? anyone know if the caps have foam under them or fiberglass?
you can put your hand on it and push lightly and it gives there is no evidence of water leaks inside? ATLEAST SOMEONE GO OUTSIDE AND PUSH ON THEIR KEYSTONE FRONT AND LET ME KNOW HOW IT FEELS!!!!
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07-14-2012, 06:43 PM
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Junior Member
Join Date: Sep 2009
Posts: 9
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Soft fiberglass under it.
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07-14-2012, 06:46 PM
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Junior Member
Join Date: Sep 2009
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Soft fiberglass insulation under it.
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07-15-2012, 04:47 AM
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Junior Member
Join Date: May 2011
Location: hanover,pa
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Tt front
THANKS I GUESS IT,S THE WAY THERE MADE,I THOUGHT THEY WERE FIBERGLASS LAMINATED TO FOAM???
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07-15-2012, 06:14 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: May 2012
Location: New Bedford, MA
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I went outside and pushed lightly on the front cap of my Bullet and it gives, what gives with that?
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07-15-2012, 06:29 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Rochester, NY
Posts: 1,605
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The back wall on my Outback fiver is hollow with fiberglass insulation, unlike the sidewalls that are pinch roll laminated with Styrofoam insulation (hard wall). There is some waviness and give on the rear wall and is normal
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07-15-2012, 07:49 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: SoCal
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I’ve gotten a close look at my trailer end caps. The rear is a giant sheet of what seems to be very thin fiberglass. It has some give, but in a very uniform way. It’s pretty sturdy, except when our latest major windstorm flung something thin and hard at it and pierced it. Replaced since then. The rear has what seems to be a flat sheet of fiberglass insulation under it.
The front cap is much more flexible with more give. When washing, I lean on it as I dry the top half. It feels more like a giant curved sheet of Tupperware. I don’t know what’s under the skin.
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07-16-2012, 05:47 PM
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Junior Member
Join Date: May 2011
Location: hanover,pa
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It,s our money
MY PET PEA IS THAT TT MAKERS GIVE YOU ONLY WHAT INFORMATION THEY WANT ABOUT HOW THEY BUILD THEIR PRODUCTS?????.
YOU CAN LOOK AT THE DIAGRAM IN THE BROCHURE WHERE IT SHOWS ALL THE LAYERS BUT THEY OMIT THE END CAPS,MAKES ME WONDER WHAT,S UNDER THERE,IF ANYONE FINDS OUT LET US KNOW
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07-16-2012, 08:24 PM
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Site Team
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Fraser Valley BC Canada
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A friend of mine who owns an '09 Cougar 5th recently found out what is behind the front cap. He noticed a draft coming from the head of the bed area and decided to remove the panel and decoratiive headboard section and have a peek in.
What he found was essentially an almost empty cavern except for a couple of bats of loose fiberglass insulation that were lying on the bottom of the void.
After discovering this large uninsulated space, he bought a few more bats of insulation and attached them to inside of the front cap.
There is basically no support for this cap so it will flex when slight pressure is applied.
We are not sure if other 5th wheel owners would find the same thing - some loose insulation lying on the bottom of the cap - but I would suspect that they would.
I feel another project coming on ............
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