I can't see paying new prices for something I expect relatively light usage of. I also know there will be an inherent cost to buying used, but also, as a listener to "Lehto's Law" and inherent cost to buying new as well.
I am pretty handy (former certified mechanic and welder, not afraid of electrical or plumbing in my house. I even mess with G-code, CAD, 3-phase, high pressure hydraulics, pneumatics and CAN control systems at work), but lack enough free time to waste it pointlessly.
On the downside, I am abnormally sensitive to fiberglass resins (wet, not cured) and a few other chemicals.
I am thinking anything with a soft floor or a leaking roof is out. Do those make sense?
What else should be an immediate disqualifier?
If it had frozen pipes?
How about just old plastic pipes of certain eras?
I would tend to think frame cracking would be easy enough for me to beef up and fix stronger than OEM, but is that going to run me afoul of an inspection or the like, on the road ever?
Is galvanic corrosion of the pop-rivits a big thing in some RVs? Seems like it might be, but I am assuming the industry moved passed anything like that ages ago.
I am pretty handy (former certified mechanic and welder, not afraid of electrical or plumbing in my house. I even mess with G-code, CAD, 3-phase, high pressure hydraulics, pneumatics and CAN control systems at work), but lack enough free time to waste it pointlessly.
On the downside, I am abnormally sensitive to fiberglass resins (wet, not cured) and a few other chemicals.
I am thinking anything with a soft floor or a leaking roof is out. Do those make sense?
What else should be an immediate disqualifier?
If it had frozen pipes?
How about just old plastic pipes of certain eras?
I would tend to think frame cracking would be easy enough for me to beef up and fix stronger than OEM, but is that going to run me afoul of an inspection or the like, on the road ever?
Is galvanic corrosion of the pop-rivits a big thing in some RVs? Seems like it might be, but I am assuming the industry moved passed anything like that ages ago.