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Old 03-28-2020, 02:21 PM   #181
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Pictures! Just about finished my electrical closet.I need to drill some pocket holes for the front panel and that's it.

Nice to have something finished. okay the wires aren't hooked up the batteries aren't in there and the inverter is not purchased yada yada lol. But the framing is finished.

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Old 03-28-2020, 02:22 PM   #182
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Oh I forgot about the back wall too. Lol. Okay it's not finished.
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Old 03-28-2020, 06:18 PM   #183
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Old 03-28-2020, 06:31 PM   #184
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I'm so glad I got to see your bus before you ruined it with all this foam board and plywood.

Making good progress, man. What ever happened with your welding?
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Old 03-28-2020, 06:42 PM   #185
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I'm so glad I got to see your bus before you ruined it with all this foam board and plywood. [emoji3]



Making good progress, man. What ever happened with your welding?
I haven't welded yet. I've got three support pieces to put in underneath. But I cut the floor and patched it already. Nothing is falling in.

And I have to fix my stairs. Then it's grey water and propane and maybe storage underneath. At least for a generator.

I'll pull the trigger soon on that welder. Like you said it may run off my generator. but I also think I'm moving out of here on the 20th. Hoping to get to a stage where I don't need all this lumber piled up inside and out.
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Old 03-28-2020, 06:58 PM   #186
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I haven't welded yet. I've got three support pieces to put in underneath. But I cut the floor and patched it already. Nothing is falling in.

And I have to fix my stairs. Then it's grey water and propane and maybe storage underneath. At least for a generator.

I'll pull the trigger soon on that welder. Like you said it may run off my generator. but I also think I'm moving out of here on the 20th. Hoping to get to a stage where I don't need all this lumber piled up inside and out.
Not that I want to be within a mile of any other human being right now, but in less disease-ridden circumstances it would be kind of cool to arrange work meetups at a halfway point somewhere. I could weld a few beams on your bus and you could build my entire interior and wire and plumb it.
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Old 03-28-2020, 06:59 PM   #187
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That's weird how the big grin emoji is different in the quoted text than in the original.
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Old 03-28-2020, 07:26 PM   #188
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Not that I want to be within a mile of any other human being right now, but in less disease-ridden circumstances it would be kind of cool to arrange work meetups at a halfway point somewhere. I could weld a few beams on your bus and you could build my entire interior and wire and plumb it.
I was thinking that yesterday lol.
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Old 03-28-2020, 07:46 PM   #189
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I was thinking that yesterday lol.
It would be cool to do something like an Amish barn-raising whenever somebody buys a bus. We'd all converge on it with our tools and generators and in like a day we'd get out all the seats, remove the floors, walls and ceiling, maybe seam-seal the roof. If enough people showed we could get all the windows out, cleaned and reinstalled.

I had actual fun doing all that, and it would be fun to keep my hand in the game and do it on a fresh bus once in a while.
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Old 03-29-2020, 02:21 PM   #190
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Skylight#2came out so much better building it on the ground. And more square. Also used the chop saw.

Tried to get a picture of both. Even far away you can tell the difference. Will get another two by four and recut the front next week.

It's 90 degrees. It's so damn hot. Not sure what I'm working on next. It's Gatorade time.
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Old 03-29-2020, 02:24 PM   #191
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Your attachments blew up. Happened to me earlier on the site as well.
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Old 03-29-2020, 02:27 PM   #192
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Your attachments blew up. Happened to me earlier on the site as well.
I hate that. I deleted them. Now nobody knows what you're talking about lol.
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Old 03-29-2020, 02:28 PM   #193
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Old 03-29-2020, 02:34 PM   #194
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Have to agree with this 100%!
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Old 03-29-2020, 06:33 PM   #196
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Have to agree with this 100%!
I've got no comment on that one.
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Old 03-30-2020, 03:39 PM   #197
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I'm still torn and undecided. I've always been transient and I've always had minimal possessions. But this cedar trunk I got when I was eighteen. 1983 or 1984. Five dollars at a neighbor's yard sale.

Two divorces a couple of homeless stints. A move across country and now one pandemic later I still have it. My longest running piece of furniture. I remember I rented a room in a converted office building before I was 21. The downstairs was retail and upstairs had six rooms with a shared bath. I had this chest a twin bed and a coffee maker I used to soft boil eggs and make coffee.

I should make an inventory here someday of my furniture before it's all gone. That's for another post.


There's no room for a chest like this in a bus. I'm probably going to repurpose it. My kid doesn't care and that's fine. The top will be my dining table. Most of the rest would be my headboard. That's 60 inches but right at 48" is the water connection so I can put a seam there and it will look natural. Won't match anything else. But maybe that's okay.

I don't know yet if it wants to be repurposed. Sometimes things will just call to you if that makes sense. So I'm still undecided.
But I'm putting up my ceiling in the bedroom next. Going to need to decide soon.

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I feel you, man. I still have a pair of boxer shorts I bought in 1998.
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Old 03-30-2020, 04:33 PM   #199
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I think repurposing a keen idea. Something you will have and remember forever
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Old 03-30-2020, 06:52 PM   #200
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Paint them safety yellow. Hang them in your bus somewhere
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