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Yukon Cornelius · 06-16-2019, 07:50 PM

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Originally Posted by BlackJohn

YC, that has to be the nicest floor I have ever seen in a moving van.

Now one question..that bowling alley of a roof...how do you plan on keeping the balls and pins attached to the ceiling?

When is moving day? Are you passing through this area to see Pops?

We should meet up.

John

Thank You good Sir, and not till the end of Jul. HaHa never thought of it as a lane but dam that makes senses lol.

But yes the old mans place is on the stop list.

Yukon Cornelius · 06-18-2019, 08:38 PM

Was a decent weekend....I stretched mine out through to today. The Boss Lady had a birthday and it was Father's Day weekend. Usually we do a camping trip as treat for us both... I believe last's years is around post 26....
But this year we elected to stay around thee house and get some "spring" cleanup/posting cleanup out of the way. As well as urethane the floor of the bus. As you are already aware the first two coats have been applied, so today I did a bit of sanding and applied a third and final coat. In between the sanding and the final coat, I also put up the last of the side walls panels, urethaned/sanded/urethaned the pieces for the stairs, and I took up the holes for the drivers seat.

Sanding

Stairs Pieces

Urethane

hoping to throw the heaters back in before the weekend, and possibly remount the drivers seat/seatbelt.

HazMatt · 06-18-2019, 08:50 PM

And are we now satisfied with the results..?

Sleddgracer · 06-18-2019, 09:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Yukon Cornelius

Was a decent weekend....I stretched mine out through to today. The Boss Lady had a birthday and it was Father's Day weekend. Usually we do a camping trip as treat for us both... I believe last's years is around post 26....
But this year we elected to stay around thee house and get some "spring" cleanup/posting cleanup out of the way. As well as urethane the floor of the bus. As you are already aware the first two coats have been applied, so today I did a bit of sanding and applied a third and final coat. In between the sanding and the final coat, I also put up the last of the side walls panels, urethaned/sanded/urethaned the pieces for the stairs, and I took up the holes for the drivers seat.

Sanding

Stairs Pieces

Urethane

hoping to throw the heaters back in before the weekend, and possibly remount the drivers seat/seatbelt.

with a floor that shiny, I'd keep thinking I was going to get my socks wet -lol - nice job

Yukon Cornelius · 06-19-2019, 05:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Sleddgracer

with a floor that shiny, I'd keep thinking I was going to get my socks wet -lol - nice job

She was still tacky when I took that shot, but I gave her a quick glance this morning and she definitely has a shine to her.

HazMatt · 06-19-2019, 05:59 AM

Mmmmmmm-m!
I love it when she's tacky...

Yukon Cornelius · 07-08-2019, 08:46 AM

Hey, so been in and out a bit as of late. went on a house hunting trip for our upcoming move......that's a whole other thing......

But I've slapped the cockpit back together, I threw the batteries in and connected up the mess of electrical that the previous owner made........

Most things are working as advertised I have a few gremlins to chase down. But we took her for a drive last night, and I drove her into work this morning. She is now over to the shop for her safety, here's hoping that doesn't break the bank. But she fired straight up, you'd never guess she had sat for 13ish months without being fired.

here she is at the hangar this morning

HazMatt · 07-08-2019, 09:38 AM

Looking really fine!
And who said 13 was an unlucky number..?

Yukon Cornelius · 07-08-2019, 09:45 AM

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Originally Posted by HazMatt

Looking really fine!
And who said 13 was an unlucky number..?

She's getting there, I'll get some pics of the cockpit it's nothing fancy. I made it driveable as I intend on a reasonable overhaul of it and the dash elec once we move. but cleaned it up and spray bombed some of the ugly parts..
Now its time to crank out some furniture.

Yukon Cornelius · 07-11-2019, 06:19 PM

So....the bus only needed a couple stupid things, and one drag link to pass safety. Should have her back tomorrow, then I can throw a sticker on my plate and tear all over ell's alf acres.

Meanwhile I went and visited a friends off grid location, where he is in the process of building his cabin, but more importantly where he already has his sawmill setup. Beauty of a spot and a nice mill (which I intend to duplicate in the next couple years, already scooped 80% of the parts needed)

He has been tinkering with his new setup and such, and a by product of that was I got some nice birch boards off of him. he needed "training time" on his mill..... So I went and availed myself of some of his offcut training/rigging/setup boards. As well as talked out a couple of his projects with him, including a homemade yarder setup for yanking some logs off the nearby slopes.
So yesterday and today I have been finish cutting and ripping lumber out of my planks for the bunkbeds and milling down the "training" boards to get a better look at the grains. They will be for my backsplash and to face the boss ladies vanity.

None of these pieces of lumber disappoint.....they are down right G'D sexy
Bunkbed lumber

missed taking a pic of the long pieces.....

Here's the birch you can see one of the fir planks in the background

look at the grain...…

HazMatt · 07-11-2019, 06:28 PM

Talk about flaunting! This is a family forum, no place for you to be sporting your wood...

Sleddgracer · 07-11-2019, 11:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Yukon Cornelius

Hey, so been in and out a bit as of late. went on a house hunting trip for our upcoming move......that's a whole other thing......

But I've slapped the cockpit back together, I threw the batteries in and connected up the mess of electrical that the previous owner made........

Most things are working as advertised I have a few gremlins to chase down. But we took her for a drive last night, and I drove her into work this morning. She is now over to the shop for her safety, here's hoping that doesn't break the bank. But she fired straight up, you'd never guess she had sat for 13ish months without being fired.

here she is at the hangar this morning

looking mighty good

Ronnie · 07-12-2019, 07:04 AM

Really nice, I can see this bus becoming a real work of art.

Yukon Cornelius · 07-12-2019, 07:46 AM

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Originally Posted by HazMatt

Talk about flaunting! This is a family forum, no place for you to be sporting your wood...

Hard not to flaunt it when it's that nice........almost a crime to hide it from the world.....

Yukon Cornelius · 07-12-2019, 07:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Ronnie

Really nice, I can see this bus becoming a real work of art.

From one fella that plays with his wood to another thank you sir.

its all part of the bigger plan

I'm approaching semiretirement or was it semi-retar.........

Yukon Cornelius · 07-15-2019, 09:10 AM

So...working on the joinery for the bunk beds... been tossing round a few different anchoring idea's.....
I've settled on M&T and I may put dowels in as anchors locks as well.
Anyways here's the starting process, taking the meat out

looking like something

And it fits......

I've got one more fit check to do and then I'll be able to size this frame against the bus and confirm I'm on my mark, then I can do the cross pieces, and the upper bunk. Then it's dry fit, sand, fit check, finish and final assembly.

Ronnie · 07-15-2019, 10:56 AM

Dowels would be a good idea, besides I think they look neat. Our house is built timber frame, oak beams M&T with pegs.

HazMatt · 07-15-2019, 11:09 AM

A whole heckuva lot more work, but mortise & tenon look so dang purty!
Nice work, btw. [emoji106]

Sleddgracer · 07-15-2019, 11:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Ronnie

Dowels would be a good idea, besides I think they look neat. Our house is built timber frame, oak beams M&T with pegs.

pictures? - l like the sound of that

Yukon Cornelius · 07-16-2019, 06:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Ronnie

Dowels would be a good idea, besides I think they look neat. Our house is built timber frame, oak beams M&T with pegs.

I think we are talking about 2 different things, if I'm understanding you correctly. You're talking about using pegs as a retaining pin on the outside of the M&T. These ones I'm talking about would be knocked perpendicularly into the side rail of the bed and orientated so that the grains of the dowel would run perpendicular to the lag bolt being fastened in.

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Originally Posted by Sleddgracer

pictures? - l like the sound of that

I've attached a link below. the difference is instead of a machine thread bolt, and metal barrel nut, it will be a wooden dowel and a lag bolt. Now
as I haven't been to the hardware store yet to ensure they have the right size dowel, it may not happen, lol joys of the isolated life.

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