Rusty 87 build thread

[musigenesis]

Originally Posted by Native

Re the tub: At least the piece you are to glue and solder is not a water HOLDING portion of the tub and is a watershed portion instead.

Yeah, that's the only reason I'm even attempting this. If it was something that water was going to sit in, I'm pretty sure it would not work.

One other potentially handy thing about this dropped tub is that if I get a leak, all the damage will be to this lowered part and should (may?) be easier to repair - as opposed to the water going to some other unknown part of the bus.

Originally Posted by Native

Re your skills: They are indeed top notch and your speed is incredible. I wonder every day how you can keep up with the thread, let alone the actual construction.

Well thank you. The thread thing is not too difficult, though - I just take a quick pic once in awhile (probably too often) and then post them when I'm taking a break. Biggest hassle is converting them all to PNG.

[musigenesis]

At least I assume so. I don't think it would have seen any snow in Buffalo.

[Native]

Originally Posted by musigenesis

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At least I assume so. I don't think it would have seen any snow in Buffalo.

Nor in Texas:





... but this was NOT from this year.

[musigenesis]

Originally Posted by Native

Nor in Texas:


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... but this was NOT from this year.

Man, snow in Texas! You're lucky your neighbors didn't kill and eat you at the first sign of a snowpocalypse like that.

[Native]

Originally Posted by musigenesis

Man, snow in Texas! You're lucky your neighbors didn't kill and eat you at the first sign of a snowpocalypse like that.

Yeah, but perhaps they saw me using my acetylene torch and were afraid!

[musigenesis]

Originally Posted by Native

Yeah, but perhaps they saw me using my acetylene torch and were afraid!

I guess they prefer sushi.

[TJones]

Your recessed tub is going to be super cool. I might need to try something similar. Is the drain going to gravity feed to your gray water tank or are you pumping it in?

Ted

[musigenesis]

BTW Native, I don't know where in Texas you are exactly, but I always imagine skoolie builders in Texas living in China Grove.

[musigenesis]

Originally Posted by TJones

Your recessed tub is going to be super cool. I might need to try something similar. Is the drain going to gravity feed to your gray water tank or are you pumping it in?

Ted

It's going to be gravity - hopefully, anyway, the arrangement is going to be pretty tight. I have one of those long, flat black tanks (9" high) that I'm going to use as my gray tank, hanging behind and below the tub. The tub drain will do an immediate 90 degree to horizontal coming out the back and then I'll have a hepvo valve and a straight run back to the hole on top of the tank. There should be just enough room to have enough of a downhill slope between the tub bottom and the tank top, and keep the bottom of the tank at about the bottom of the side skirt (I could go a little lower than that if necessary, I think). For extra complication, the drain from the sink (right next to the tub) is going to have to sort of snake around between the tub and the wall and join into the tub drain before exiting the box.

If I could re-do my plan, I might skip the under-the-floor thing for the tub and instead just build a slightly larger projecting box above the roof than the smallish one I built for my Maxxair fan and get the needed head room that way (although I think those boxes do look kind of weird from outside if they're too large). Overall it would have been much easier since I had to build that roof box anyway, and it would have made the gray tank arrangement much simpler and easier.

[Native]

Originally Posted by musigenesis

BTW Native, I don't know where in Texas you are exactly, but I always imagine skoolie builders in Texas living in China Grove.

Fort Worth , TX .


China Grove ... every time I hear that I think of the song:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=udSHItTjWyQ

[TJones]

Originally Posted by musigenesis

It's going to be gravity - hopefully, anyway, the arrangement is going to be pretty tight. I have one of those long, flat black tanks (9" high) that I'm going to use as my gray tank, hanging behind and below the tub. The tub drain will do an immediate 90 degree to horizontal coming out the back and then I'll have a hepvo valve and a straight run back to the hole on top of the tank. There should be just enough room to have enough of a downhill slope between the tub bottom and the tank top, and keep the bottom of the tank at about the bottom of the side skirt (I could go a little lower than that if necessary, I think). For extra complication, the drain from the sink (right next to the tub) is going to have to sort of snake around between the tub and the wall and join into the tub drain before exiting the box.

If I could re-do my plan, I might skip the under-the-floor thing for the tub and instead just build a slightly larger projecting box above the roof than the smallish one I built for my Maxxair fan and get the needed head room that way (although I think those boxes do look kind of weird from outside if they're too large). Overall it would have been much easier since I had to build that roof box anyway, and it would have made the gray tank arrangement much simpler and easier.

Sounds like your drain plan should work just fine and it will be worth it to have the extra head room.


Ted

[musigenesis]

Originally Posted by Native

Fort Worth , TX .

I have a friend who lives in Dallas and I almost bought a house there around 2008, one designed by a semi-famous Dallas architect whose name I forget (he was sort of Frank Lloyd Wright-ish). The house was run down and super-cheap (no takers for years at $50K) but the thing I was most into about it was this very cool tiny house on the property with a full-height upstairs sleeping platform with a huge skylight over it. I was going to renovate that first and then move into it while renovating the main house. I think this was the first glimmer of my skoolie dream - I spent years afterwards fantasizing about what I would have done with the tiny house. This was in the SE part of Dallas which seems under-popular - there are some very cool older neighborhoods there.

When I first got my first Z3, I drove over to visit her, going from Shreveport to Dallas in an hour and fifty minutes, which is a little bit quicker than you're supposed to make it.

[Native]

Originally Posted by musigenesis

I have a friend who lives in Dallas and I almost bought a house there around 2008, one designed by a semi-famous Dallas architect whose name I forget (he was sort of Frank Lloyd Wright-ish). The house was run down and super-cheap (no takers for years at $50K) but the thing I was most into about it was this very cool tiny house on the property with a full-height upstairs sleeping platform with a huge skylight over it. I was going to renovate that first and then move into it while renovating the main house. I think this was the first glimmer of my skoolie dream - I spent years afterwards fantasizing about what I would hone with the tiny house. This was in the SE part of Dallas which seems under-popular - there are some very cool older neighborhoods there.

When I first got my first Z3, I drove over to visit her, going from Shreveport to Dallas in an hour and fifty minutes, which is a little bit quicker than you're supposed to make it.

That house sounds like a skoolie builder's dream!


Uh, that's averaging just under 100 MPH!!!

[HazMatt]

Then there're thems of us in residence a mite closer to La Grange.

Originally Posted by musigenesis

BTW Native, I don't know where in Texas you are exactly, but I always imagine skoolie builders in Texas living in China Grove.

https://youtu.be/Gg9cNGHl-bg

Unh how how how...

[musigenesis]

Originally Posted by HazMatt

Then there're thems of us in residence a mite closer to La Grange.https://youtu.be/Gg9cNGHl-bg

Unh how how how...

They gotta lotta nice girls there.

[HazMatt]

Git you an hm-hm

[musigenesis]

Because of how the motor on my table saw is attached, there is one width of stuff that I can't cut with a 45 degree bevel because the engine mount blocks the guide rail. It's about 9.5" which was exactly the height of my side blocks, fortunate because I realized it's a lot simpler to just notch one of the pieces to fit over the other and the same thing is achieved.

[Native]

Lookin' less and less like a bus!

[musigenesis]

I'm considering using this stuff for my shower walls: https://www.homedepot.com/p/PLAS-TEX...8615/311314398 so a Sunday experiment to see if it works and looks OK. I'm going to back it with plywood and I don't want to rely on just glue to attach it, so I'm seeing how well I can screw it in place "wet" with Dynatron-550 (I'll use the white version -570 for the actual shower stall).



Countersink to prevent the screw from dimpling the material.













I think this will be watertight without relying on the adhesion of the sealant, which will be pinched all around the screw head.



Building a theoretically watertight box to test this material out. My shower will have a full ring curtain so the walls will not be exposed to water to this degree, but I still want it watertight. I'm obviously not all that concerned about having a pretty shower.







This plastic is kind of hard to countersink accurately for some reason - a couple of these are big enough to work the screw head through although with the sealant and glue they should hold fine.

[musigenesis]

Originally Posted by Native

Lookin' less and less like a bus!

True, I'm not sure what it does look like, though.