Project Trailer - Part I

Dear Beethovens, your mission if you accept it consists in fixing a 20+ year old trailer who was most likely never touched up . Your key result will be a road-worthy trailer, capable of taking Elise on vacation.First, let's assess the damage. Hmm...sounds like we need to grease up the wheels, scrape out all this rust and take a closer look at those tubes.
Eric - I shouldn't be doing any work when it is that hot
Nathan - I look really cool in this outfit.
Who has right of way?
This is only 50% of the wheel problem. There's one on the other side too.
Improvised boatyard
While Eric, Heather, Roger and Nathan (did I forget anyone - Kate, were you there too?) were hard at work, the cars get to enjoy the sights.
Eric: "this tubing is just wrong. There are holes everywhere. Even if we repaint them, they will fall apart the minute you put Elise back onto the trailer."
The boatyard was in fact a yacht club who kindly loaned us some space.
Eric greasing the wheel. We decided not to spend any more cycles on the trailer before it could be sand-blasted.
Roger: "Hey Nathan. I brought you a towel. I can spot a few stains on your new outfit. Might want to take care of that before we head back to the city."
Roger in his new job: "Inspector of completed work"
Looks like termites for steel...These tubes need replacing. That's a welding job though, so probably best done by a professional.
Grease pump - I hadn't realized that the pump was bought, so at some point Eric hands out to me a grease gun which I turned down "this isn't mine". Eric has to say "Yes it is"

It was really hard to find a professional who would be willing to do the work on the trailer. We identified a small shop in SF. They agreed to take the trailer to a sandblasting place, to weld new tubes in, prime it and paint it. They also broke the other taillight so they gave us some brand-new ones :)