Jim

I started the day with marking, drilling, deburing, and painting 17 holes in the drivers side wall to install rivnuts for the horizontal furring strips that I had cut yesterday. I also added several rivnuts to extisting holes in the van wall. It took a little over an hour. After lunch, when the paint had […]

I was working alone today. Spent two hours in the morning working on the horizontal furring strips on the passenger side wall. I was able to cut all the lengths of wood, and drill and paint all the holes needed for rivnuts (about 20). Then I had a couple of meetings/errands. I came back in

I took yesterday off from van building because of Father’s Day. Today, I started by removing all the weight from the subfloor and examining the completed subfloor. I am pretty happy with it. I had hoped that the biscuits would have done a better job of minimizing the seam between the boards, but I am

Again today I was taking advantage of small time blocks between personal business to work on the van. In the late morning, I spent 1 1/2 hours working on the battery cables. First, I snaked the two battery cables through a loom to help protect them once they are installed. Then, I worked to route

I had a lot of appointments today that kept me away from working on the van. I was able to put together some small time blocks to make some progress. In the morning, I spent an hour finishing the routering of the shorter L-Track channel in the subfloor plywood. I didn’t make it wide enough

I was busy in the morning, so I didn’t get started until 1:00pm. And then, I only had a few hours before a church meeting. Fortunately, Artie was around to help me, so we made some good progress. With the subfloor in the van, we took the opportunity to mark up the sheets. First, we

Last night, I was reviewing some of the saved process videos that I had for future steps in the van build. I came across one on wrapping the front and rear columns in fabric, which is something I wanted to do. As I watched the video, I noticed that I would have to do that

I’m combining two days onto this blog post, because they were both short days On Friday night (the 6th), I removed the weights from the first seven joists that we had glued down the night before. I saw that they had slid around a little. Not much, about a 1/4″ to a 1/2″. The joists

It was a rainy day, so I couldn’t work on the van in the morning. I did some research on which unistrut channel to buy and what hardware I need for it. I’m calling one distributor tomorrow before making a decision and purchasing it. On the bright side, after 12 hours of rain, the window