Rusty 87 build thread

[musigenesis]

Originally Posted by bp1791-unleashed

I just finished the whole thread. This is awe inspiring work. I'm super impressed with it.

I really like the dowel/cube idea for spacing with the insulation. I might borrow that in some variation.

I can't wait to see the rest of the progress.

jim

Thanks very much! For the record, the cheese cubes aren't really part of the system, they're to keep me from stepping on the ends of the welded screws. I'm pretty sure I would have lost a foot by now without them.

[Native]

Coming right along!


Good to see all that YELLOW down on the floor.

[JDSquared]

Originally Posted by musigenesis

I've got an ant infestation, actually.

I bet they think it's cheese too. Once your flooring is done they will be gone.

[musigenesis]

Last of the eight floor panels painted. I'm skipping painting the underside for these, since they're already primed.



Second coat of yellow. It's weird, the Safety Blue variant of this paint generally requires only a single coat but this yellow always needs at least two coats.









Hopefully I can assemble the floor on Wednesday. This paint will probably still be too tacky to do it tomorrow.

[Jocelyn]

Nice work! There's something satisfying about seeing that floor with it's cheese cubes.

[musigenesis]

I'm amazed I still have anything that I pulled off my bus more than a year ago, but unfortunately I lost the bracket that guides the bottom bar on the side door. It wouldn't have worked without modification anyway (since I'm catching the bar on vertical sill piece), so I just built a new one to fit exactly.

Happened to have this piece of bent 1/8" sheet that I ordered from my metal supplier last year for something I ended up not doing. So convenient to have random pieces of metal floating around.





SEM self-etching primer.



Rustoleum semi-gloss enamel.

[Native]

I keep all sorts of little bits and pieces of metal just for that sort of thing. Sure, if you have a real good supply of stock and a brake, drill press, vice, etc. you could get away with tossing all the scraps. Not so in my garage!

[musigenesis]

Decided to prime and paint the kitchen floor plywood.

[musigenesis]

Painted kitchen floor plywood.

[musigenesis]

Filler strip of XPS.



The usual doctored underside to fit over things on the floor. I almost did all of this on the top side instead of the bottom, which would have ruined the piece.



All doweled in, except of course for ...



The one screw I torqued out. This one came out almost as soon as I started screwing the dowel down on it - the other ones have all come out when the dowel touches the floor. Unfortunately it's at the juncture of three floor panels so I can't ignore it.









Quick shot of weld-through primer - no time to wait on anything else.



Almost forget to put this cloth underneath; probably would have broken yet another piece getting it up.



Left side insulation down.



Plywood all screwed down with the snug fasteners. These things are great, didn't strip out once.



One seam is iffy, one piece is wanting to bow up. I'm eventually going to fishplate anything like this before putting down the underlayment, but it seems to be another consequence of the cheap plywood.

[JDSquared]

How awesome does that look to you? Freaking nuts how different this looks than it did in November.

[musigenesis]

Originally Posted by JDSquared

How awesome does that look to you? Freaking nuts how different this looks than it did in November.

It does look pretty awesome. I don't have any rusty disastrous messes inside the bus any more. Also fun to walk on this floor.

My happy is tempered by the fact that I spilled a bit of gasoline in the back of the bus on the drive back to my lot, which ate away a bit of the XPS. I'm probably going to have to remove two of the back pieces of plywood flooring to fix it. The drive over I was smelling the gasoline and thinking "ha ha, that's not me, my bus is diesel!" and forgetting I have gasoline jugs for my generators.

[Native]

Wow, that is a bummer! Gasoline + XPS = molten mess!

[musigenesis]

Originally Posted by Native

Wow, that is a bummer! Gasoline + XPS = molten mess!

So far, I have trashed already-installed XPS by 1) welding near it, 2) spraying weld-spatter onto it, and now 3) pouring gasoline on it. Really wish I could have done the ceilings and walls first.

It looks like the gouge is maybe a foot long and an inch deep, and this was just from a tiny trickle of gas that seeped out of a mostly-empty can. If a full can had spilled, I'm pretty sure I would have had to redo the entire floor back there, including the dropped part.

No more hauling gas around in my bus, unless it's in my step well.

[plfking]

Originally Posted by musigenesis

So far, I have trashed already-installed XPS by 1) welding near it, 2) spraying weld-spatter onto it, and now 3) pouring gasoline on it.

On the other hand, you may have discovered an alternative to the routing out of pex lines for radiant floor heating.

[musigenesis]

Filler piece.



Fitting the big piece.





Unfortunate gaps.



Buckets o' dowel.



Big piece doweled.



The gasoline damage. I'm kind of worried about the bits against the wall since I don't know how far it went down there.



An attempt at a closeup under the lip of the plywood.



Anybody need a bucket of perfectly good 1.5"x1.5" cubes with holes in them?



Insulation complete.



More gap fillage.



Plywood laid.



My hero! Didn't think this tool would last, but it finished out the floor.



Plywood all screwed in place.











This is a big milestone for me.

[bp1791-unleashed]

Looking good! Wow!

Bummer about the gasoline, but I'm really glad it was only a tiny amount, and there was no ignition source around.

[musigenesis]

Originally Posted by bp1791-unleashed

Looking good! Wow!

Bummer about the gasoline, but I'm really glad it was only a tiny amount, and there was no ignition source around.

Thanks!

Life is like a teacher who believes in corporal punishment.

[Native]

This is a huge milestone indeed! Your flooring now looks like you never had any rust at all! WooHoo!!!

[musigenesis]

Originally Posted by Native

This is a huge milestone indeed! Your flooring now looks like you never had any rust at all! WooHoo!!!

Thanks a lot. It's pretty strange to be in my bus now after imagining this for so long.

I have of course already tripped on the edges of the sunken part two or three times. I'm reasonably certain I'm going to step backwards over the edge at some point and turn my ankle. But somehow I managed to never impale myself on one of the upright screws.