Jim

I had a full day to work on the van, and was planning to install the solar panels so that I could add that wire harness to the van. However, the weather didn’t cooperate. There was a 35% chance of rain basically throughout the day. Since I needed to cut a hole in the roof […]

I had been out of town for the last ten days, so there has been a gap here in my blog posts because I wasn’t working on the van. While I was gone, I received many items that I had ordered, so there is now lots of things to work on. I started at 8:30

After a lost day yesterday, I was able to put over six hours of work into the van today. I started by attaching the completed window frame, and I think it looked good. Then I spent the rest of the day working on the wall panels. When I went to the lumber yard a couple

Not really sure this should count as a build day, as it was kind of a disaster. I started out by looking at how the stain looked on the window frame, and I didn’t like it. I applied a second coat of stain in hopes that it would help. While I waited for the second

I spent a lot of time today reworking things I had done. I started out the day with sanding the puddy in the joints in the window frame. I think that it looked very good. Then I applied some Minwax paste to treat the bare wood. I had done this on other pieces of wood

Returned from my trip around mid afternoon and spent four hours working on the van. I puddied the window frame to fill in the cracks in the corners of the assembly. After the puddy dried and I sanded it, I wasn’t satisfied with the fill, so I applied another layer. I’ll let it dry overnight

It was a short day today, because I’m leaving town this afternoon for a couple of days. So, I just focused my time on the lower bunk fabrication. I was able to get the basic structure put together and was able to fit it into the van. This re-designed version is short enough to not

I had a meeting at church in the morning, so I got a late start on van building. I started out by attaching that last furring strip around the window frame. Then, I fit in the window frame and traced a line around the window frame where the edge of the furring strips were. I

I was busy with appointments in the morning, so I didn’t get to work on the van until almost 2:00. I still managed to put in five good hours on it, though. Now that I had the M6 bolts, I was focused on installing all the horizontal furring strips that I had created over the

I didn’t receive the M6 bolts that I needed to mount the furring strips. They were supposed to come late yesterday, but nothing. Amazon now says that they are delayed until 5:00pm today. We’ll see…. So, I had to come up with other items to work on. I didn’t have any appointments today, so I