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12-08-2015, 04:04 PM
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Bus Crazy
Join Date: Aug 2014
Location: SW New Hampshire
Posts: 1,334
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Oh, man! There's gotta be more to this! What a great narrative so far!
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12-11-2015, 12:26 PM
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#142
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Mini-Skoolie
Join Date: Sep 2011
Posts: 12
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well, now you've gone and done it. Made up my mind to raise the roof. Great job, great ideas and looks like great help. Keep up the good work.
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12-15-2015, 12:05 PM
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Skoolie
Join Date: Jul 2015
Posts: 100
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Very cool video!
I don't know how, but you made it look soooo easy!
I saw you measuring ALOT when raising the roof (for keeping it leveled obviously) but is there no way to fix laser levels to those screws that hold the roof in place? This way you could lift and visually see if it's level or not with the back?
Just out of curiosity!
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12-21-2015, 01:51 PM
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Skoolie
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Kansas
Posts: 214
Year: 1993
Coachwork: Bluebird
Engine: 5.9 Cummins
Rated Cap: 66 Passenger
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Thanks for all the great comments guys!!
I've been working my tail feathers off getting my house remodeled and sold so have been MIA from this site for quite some time. I'm hoping to keep up with my progress here a bit better in the future. You can always check out and subscribe to my youtube channel for more up to date videos of my progress.
mrblah.....What I found in raising the roof was that if you measured the front and back....The middle was the same measurement. It actually didn't sag even a 1/16 of an in inch. The roof is very solid and well engineered with the rounded shape.
Here's a video of where I'm at so far......
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12-30-2015, 12:21 PM
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#145
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Skoolie
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Kansas
Posts: 214
Year: 1993
Coachwork: Bluebird
Engine: 5.9 Cummins
Rated Cap: 66 Passenger
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Originally Posted by rlohrey
well, now you've gone and done it. Made up my mind to raise the roof. Great job, great ideas and looks like great help. Keep up the good work.
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Super awesome you're going to raise the roof. I look forward to seeing what and how you do it!!
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12-30-2015, 02:58 PM
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Jul 2014
Posts: 722
Year: 1998
Coachwork: Bluebird
Chassis: TC2000 RE
Engine: 8.3l Cummins
Rated Cap: 78
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Once you've welded in all your angle-iron-rivet-backing-bracket-super-friends to your verticals, that you clean them really well and get some paint in there. I'd suggest a cold galvanizing paint, which will help keep down the corrosion. Get it good and thick in there, between the nested square tubing and angle iron bits.
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Originally Posted by MuddaEarth
Thanks for all the great comments guys!!
I've been working my tail feathers off getting my house remodeled and sold so have been MIA from this site for quite some time. I'm hoping to keep up with my progress here a bit better in the future. You can always check out and subscribe to my youtube channel for more up to date videos of my progress.
mrblah.....What I found in raising the roof was that if you measured the front and back....The middle was the same measurement. It actually didn't sag even a 1/16 of an in inch. The roof is very solid and well engineered with the rounded shape.
Here's a video of where I'm at so far......
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12-31-2015, 02:09 PM
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Skoolie
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Kansas
Posts: 214
Year: 1993
Coachwork: Bluebird
Engine: 5.9 Cummins
Rated Cap: 66 Passenger
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Originally Posted by aaronsb
Once you've welded in all your angle-iron-rivet-backing-bracket-super-friends to your verticals, that you clean them really well and get some paint in there. I'd suggest a cold galvanizing paint, which will help keep down the corrosion. Get it good and thick in there, between the nested square tubing and angle iron bits.
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Thanks for the tip, I was thinking of using por15.... But I'll definitely look into the cold galvanizing paint.
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04-29-2016, 01:26 PM
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Skoolie
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Kansas
Posts: 214
Year: 1993
Coachwork: Bluebird
Engine: 5.9 Cummins
Rated Cap: 66 Passenger
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Well.... The many lifestyle and living changes I've made recently should allow me to get back to work on this project and hit it hot and heavy!! Here's a quick update on where I'm at now.....Getting real close to getting the new skins put in place. https://youtu.be/UaRcvap8KEE
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04-29-2016, 03:01 PM
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Jul 2014
Posts: 722
Year: 1998
Coachwork: Bluebird
Chassis: TC2000 RE
Engine: 8.3l Cummins
Rated Cap: 78
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Good to see you're posting videos again! I like the template you made for drilling your rivet holes. When start hanging sheets, it will be fun to see all the holes drilled for the rivets. 
Have you acquired sheet metal yet? If I could go back I would have tried to get eletrogalv sheet instead of just plain cold roll sheets.
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Originally Posted by MuddaEarth
Well.... The many lifestyle and living changes I've made recently should allow me to get back to work on this project and hit it hot and heavy!! Here's a quick update on where I'm at now.....Getting real close to getting the new skins put in place. https://youtu.be/UaRcvap8KEE |
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04-29-2016, 10:11 PM
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Eustis FLORIDA
Posts: 23,764
Year: 1999
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: Freighliner FS65
Engine: Cat 3126
Rated Cap: 15
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Originally Posted by aaronsb
Good to see you're posting videos again! I like the template you made for drilling your rivet holes. When start hanging sheets, it will be fun to see all the holes drilled for the rivets.
Have you acquired sheet metal yet? If I could go back I would have tried to get eletrogalv sheet instead of just plain cold roll sheets. |
Galv-anneal is another name for it.
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05-01-2016, 02:25 PM
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Skoolie
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Kansas
Posts: 214
Year: 1993
Coachwork: Bluebird
Engine: 5.9 Cummins
Rated Cap: 66 Passenger
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Originally Posted by aaronsb
Good to see you're posting videos again! I like the template you made for drilling your rivet holes. When start hanging sheets, it will be fun to see all the holes drilled for the rivets.
Have you acquired sheet metal yet? If I could go back I would have tried to get eletrogalv sheet instead of just plain cold roll sheets. |
Yep....I'm looking forward to getting those sheets up! I purchased some electrogalv sheets already. They are nice because of corrosion resistance and it's a great paintable surface that epoxy primer sticks very well to. I'll update this as I go along.
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05-04-2016, 01:48 AM
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Skoolie
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Kansas
Posts: 214
Year: 1993
Coachwork: Bluebird
Engine: 5.9 Cummins
Rated Cap: 66 Passenger
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Hello everyone, here's another video update on Transcendence......
https://youtu.be/varGhDYVSxU
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05-04-2016, 05:56 AM
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Eustis FLORIDA
Posts: 23,764
Year: 1999
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: Freighliner FS65
Engine: Cat 3126
Rated Cap: 15
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Glad to see an update, man!
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06-04-2016, 11:15 PM
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Skoolie
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Kansas
Posts: 214
Year: 1993
Coachwork: Bluebird
Engine: 5.9 Cummins
Rated Cap: 66 Passenger
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Originally Posted by EastCoastCB
Glad to see an update, man!
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Thanks Man!! I hope to have updates a bit more frequently!
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06-04-2016, 11:17 PM
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Skoolie
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Kansas
Posts: 214
Year: 1993
Coachwork: Bluebird
Engine: 5.9 Cummins
Rated Cap: 66 Passenger
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Hello everyone......Here's another update video showing the work I've accomplished on the rear of the bus.
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06-07-2016, 10:47 PM
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Skoolie
Join Date: Dec 2015
Location: onboard
Posts: 235
Year: 97
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: BadMuthaFuka
Engine: Cummins 5.9
Rated Cap: All of us
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i've been waiting to see update as well , build looks killer man! keep it up!
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06-09-2016, 10:44 AM
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#157
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Skoolie
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Kansas
Posts: 214
Year: 1993
Coachwork: Bluebird
Engine: 5.9 Cummins
Rated Cap: 66 Passenger
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Originally Posted by jester
i've been waiting to see update as well , build looks killer man! keep it up!
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Thank you....I'm actually editing a new video today of a bit more progress. I'll post when finished.
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06-09-2016, 11:27 AM
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Eustis FLORIDA
Posts: 23,764
Year: 1999
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: Freighliner FS65
Engine: Cat 3126
Rated Cap: 15
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What can I do to entice you into coming to FL, man?
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06-09-2016, 02:12 PM
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#159
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Skoolie
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Kansas
Posts: 214
Year: 1993
Coachwork: Bluebird
Engine: 5.9 Cummins
Rated Cap: 66 Passenger
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Originally Posted by EastCoastCB
What can I do to entice you into coming to FL, man?
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Wouldn't take much.....I love to scuba dive and hang out on the beach!! 
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06-09-2016, 02:14 PM
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#160
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Skoolie
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Kansas
Posts: 214
Year: 1993
Coachwork: Bluebird
Engine: 5.9 Cummins
Rated Cap: 66 Passenger
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Hello everyone....I hope you guys are enjoying the videos of my progress. Here's Episode 15 coming at ya!!
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