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03-21-2022, 02:27 PM
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Skoolie
Join Date: Mar 2022
Location: WA State
Posts: 164
Year: 2005
Coachwork: Bluebird
Chassis: All American
Engine: Cat C7
Rated Cap: 36,000
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Alt1
Good work. I like seeing the CNC work. I've got a nice machine and plan to do something similar in my build. If you'd be willing to share any of your files I would be interested.
I also appreciate the efforts put into the cabinet work. The domino is a fantastic tool that saves a lot of work. I'm looking forward to your future progress!
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Thanks! It's enjoying the journey with all of this. I'm good with sharing what I can. Files are spread all over. Just send me a PM when you get to something you're going to be making.
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03-21-2022, 02:30 PM
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Skoolie
Join Date: Mar 2022
Location: WA State
Posts: 164
Year: 2005
Coachwork: Bluebird
Chassis: All American
Engine: Cat C7
Rated Cap: 36,000
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Little bits every night....
Got another cabinet designed and built... Mounted the electrical box and the generator got hard mounted inside a box too.
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03-21-2022, 03:04 PM
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#43
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Skoolie
Join Date: Mar 2022
Location: WA State
Posts: 164
Year: 2005
Coachwork: Bluebird
Chassis: All American
Engine: Cat C7
Rated Cap: 36,000
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Power
Geni is a Cummins Onan QG 4000... It's small light and sips fuel. USA Made, and quiet. If the generator is running and load demand gets close to its max, the controller/inverter will suppliment power from the battery to meet needs. With so much battery storage, and solar power... I'm not sure how much use the geni is gonna get... But its there.
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03-21-2022, 09:25 PM
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#44
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Skoolie
Join Date: Mar 2022
Location: WA State
Posts: 164
Year: 2005
Coachwork: Bluebird
Chassis: All American
Engine: Cat C7
Rated Cap: 36,000
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Kids got skills!
My daughter is on spring break and wanted to help out with BOB.... Turns out she's got some finishing skills! She got trim work up on overhead storage... She ran rough sawn wood through the planer, tablesaw, then miter saw to get to where it is now!
Proud dad moment!
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03-21-2022, 09:55 PM
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#45
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Jul 2017
Location: Rapid City, SD
Posts: 993
Year: 2001
Coachwork: Blue Bird
Chassis: CS RE
Engine: ISC 8.3 L 260 hp
Rated Cap: 36
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Your build is amazing! Great craftsmanship and skoolie build warp speed.
Ted
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03-21-2022, 10:34 PM
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Skoolie
Join Date: Mar 2022
Location: WA State
Posts: 164
Year: 2005
Coachwork: Bluebird
Chassis: All American
Engine: Cat C7
Rated Cap: 36,000
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Quote:
Originally Posted by TJones
Your build is amazing! Great craftsmanship and skoolie build warp speed.
Ted
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Feels like it's taking forever. Seems like everywhere you turn there's something that can't be done until the something else gets done. Never ending circle. But I'm having fun!
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03-23-2022, 10:26 PM
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Skoolie
Join Date: Mar 2022
Location: WA State
Posts: 164
Year: 2005
Coachwork: Bluebird
Chassis: All American
Engine: Cat C7
Rated Cap: 36,000
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Solved the puzzle...
Kids have been helping a lot this week. Proud to have a 13yr old boy that can plans, measure, cut, and set finish work like this!
My daughter wanted to do something different for the wall next to her bunk... She stained some old barnwood, lasercut puzzle pieces from it, and it turned out pretty cool.
Hung the ceiling panels... I still wanted a little arch to keep the bus look... We ran mounting strips of 1/2" 9 ply baltic birch... Lids are 5ply Baltic Birch, 4mm thick. Great mix of strength, weight, and finish. We'll be doing bondo on screws, fiberglass tape seams....
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03-23-2022, 10:56 PM
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#48
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Skoolie
Join Date: Mar 2022
Location: WA State
Posts: 164
Year: 2005
Coachwork: Bluebird
Chassis: All American
Engine: Cat C7
Rated Cap: 36,000
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Ceiling work... What a difference that makes
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03-25-2022, 07:15 AM
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Sep 2020
Location: Central PA
Posts: 350
Year: 2002
Coachwork: AmTran
Chassis: International/IC Bus
Engine: T444E
Rated Cap: 78
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Quote:
Originally Posted by JA6net
DWB graduate. STS campus. Working on my doctorate. I've been fortunate to have found a way to make $ doing something that I enjoy.
(DWB= Dumb White Boy)
(STS= Self Taught ****)
LOL, I've done a lot of things... Medical, Defense, and aerospace somehow croosed and pulled me in. Commonality is that I've always looked for a reason to do or make something myself rather than buy it... Pick up tools and skills along the way.
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You and I would get along just fine lol.
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03-25-2022, 09:29 AM
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Skoolie
Join Date: Mar 2022
Location: WA State
Posts: 164
Year: 2005
Coachwork: Bluebird
Chassis: All American
Engine: Cat C7
Rated Cap: 36,000
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Quote:
Originally Posted by RamRod4
You and I would get along just fine lol.
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No kidding! I've been reading your steelhouse build and was thinking same!
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03-25-2022, 09:36 AM
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#51
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Skoolie
Join Date: Mar 2022
Location: WA State
Posts: 164
Year: 2005
Coachwork: Bluebird
Chassis: All American
Engine: Cat C7
Rated Cap: 36,000
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Break time
Took a few hours away from bus to play with forge...
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03-25-2022, 09:39 AM
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#52
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Bus Crazy
Join Date: Apr 2019
Location: SW USA
Posts: 2,064
Year: 2003
Coachwork: IC / Amtran
Chassis: CE300
Engine: International T444e
Rated Cap: 23
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Damn dude, do you ever sleep?
You're making me tired just reading this thread. 
__________________
Go away. 'Baitin.
Our Build: Mr. Beefy
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03-25-2022, 09:44 AM
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#53
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Skoolie
Join Date: Mar 2022
Location: WA State
Posts: 164
Year: 2005
Coachwork: Bluebird
Chassis: All American
Engine: Cat C7
Rated Cap: 36,000
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Quote:
Originally Posted by TheHubbardBus
Damn dude, do you ever sleep?
You're making me tired just reading this thread. |
Lol... I hate sleeping. I just think of all the stuff I could be doing. My neighbor swings by everyday to see what's happening in the shop and asks what I'm going to do with all my free time after bus is done.... I say that's wrong question... What am I going to do with all this free space is what I'm thinking!
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03-25-2022, 10:16 AM
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#54
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Skoolie
Join Date: Mar 2022
Location: WA State
Posts: 164
Year: 2005
Coachwork: Bluebird
Chassis: All American
Engine: Cat C7
Rated Cap: 36,000
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We got a break in weather, so rolled back the tent to get some sheet metal done!
This looks really ugly from above, but it's on purpose.... I really didn't want to spray insulation foam from inside... So we've pretty much completed everything inside out. Last step is to finish inside ceilings, then spray foam into voids from outside.
Tried tarps first, but they just blew off and let condensation drip inside. Plus snow would gather and melt in the roof cutouts...
So welded "A" frame to top, steep enough for snow to slide off, and condensation to roll down to outside....
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03-25-2022, 11:06 AM
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#55
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Skoolie
Join Date: Mar 2022
Location: WA State
Posts: 164
Year: 2005
Coachwork: Bluebird
Chassis: All American
Engine: Cat C7
Rated Cap: 36,000
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Here's the outside of shower and how Sheet metal transitions from rear raise to center raise.
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03-25-2022, 12:24 PM
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#56
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Sep 2020
Location: Central PA
Posts: 350
Year: 2002
Coachwork: AmTran
Chassis: International/IC Bus
Engine: T444E
Rated Cap: 78
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Quote:
Originally Posted by JA6net
Took a few hours away from bus to play with forge...
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blacksmithing is next on my list of endeavors lol.
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03-25-2022, 12:27 PM
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#57
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Sep 2020
Location: Central PA
Posts: 350
Year: 2002
Coachwork: AmTran
Chassis: International/IC Bus
Engine: T444E
Rated Cap: 78
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I really dig the laser cut wood. My 4.4kw CO2 laser is due in around July/August so I might try to do some cutting with it for the bus. Its a Bystronic so all the parameters are for steel/aluminum cutting as I own a custom fabrication shop, but I know it can cut wood if I write some of my own parameters.
Love the ingenuity here though. I'll be keeping tabs on this project
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03-25-2022, 12:49 PM
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#58
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Skoolie
Join Date: Mar 2022
Location: WA State
Posts: 164
Year: 2005
Coachwork: Bluebird
Chassis: All American
Engine: Cat C7
Rated Cap: 36,000
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Quote:
Originally Posted by RamRod4
I really dig the laser cut wood. My 4.4kw CO2 laser is due in around July/August so I might try to do some cutting with it for the bus. Its a Bystronic so all the parameters are for steel/aluminum cutting as I own a custom fabrication shop, but I know it can cut wood if I write some of my own parameters.
Love the ingenuity here though. I'll be keeping tabs on this project
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Thanks man, appreciate it. 4.4kw... Crap loads of fun. That's some serious metal processing... I've got a 180w CO2 that I did this on. It's got O2 assist for cutting metal.... But limited to 18g on it. My plasma table makes up in the power dept, but I love the precision of the laser. My little 50w fiber laser is just for engraving and images on pew pews.
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03-25-2022, 12:51 PM
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#59
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Skoolie
Join Date: Mar 2022
Location: WA State
Posts: 164
Year: 2005
Coachwork: Bluebird
Chassis: All American
Engine: Cat C7
Rated Cap: 36,000
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Morning of drilling and cutting.... At least the bus is so big you can see both sides at the same time.... Having to do it a little different over here.
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03-25-2022, 09:04 PM
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#60
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Skoolie
Join Date: Mar 2022
Location: WA State
Posts: 164
Year: 2005
Coachwork: Bluebird
Chassis: All American
Engine: Cat C7
Rated Cap: 36,000
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Vent over stove has to get to outside air... Using the original perforated metal from interior ceiling on outter face of this section. That sheet metal part seals outside from in. Still have a tiny cabnet go drop in, but needed to get to area to rivet and caulk first.
Plasma cutter and CAD makes it come together 1st try on most stuff. Scap pile is almost nonexistent.
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