Let's get ready to rivet!
Underside of my farmhouse sink. Have to start thinking about how I'm going to mount this. The four corner holes I think are supposed to go over posts or rods of some sort. And then I'm also going to have to build the counter around it to hold it down.
I've been rearranging my shed over the last couple of days and I stumbled across one of my seat backs that I did my first welding experiments on. This was actually from my second attempt - on my first try I ruptured the pressure hose between the regulator and the welder because I hadn't the slightest clue how to use the regulator and it was screwed all the way down when I opened the bottle.
After this I signed up for a mig welding class at my local cc.
Decided it was time to cover my static vent in the front. It had a fair amount of rust on it, although there doesn't seem to be any indication that water got inside the bus this way. I was curious as to these things don't just allow massive amounts of water in, but I see now that they're two pieces, where the bottom piece has this lip to stop any water that comes in through the slats in the rounded top piece, which also has channels to allow this water to flow out. Pretty cool design, but I imagine it fails if it becomes packed with snow.
The red line here shows about where my bulkhead wall is going to go. The two blue lines are the transverse beams and are the only things right now I can attach the bulkhead to on the ceiling. I think I'm going to rivet three additional thingamajigs to the roof (rivets going in from above) that I can bolt the bulkhead to, some kind of bent sheet metal of sorts.
I'm golden with a 4'x8' sheet of 14 ga., but holy **** was that thing tough to manhandle (my bus is parked in front and it's about 100' back to my shed and the thing weighs like 100 pounds. I was able to get it on my wheelbarrow and get it back that way.
Reference pics for reattaching my hatch. I disconnected the arms so I could flatten it out on my roof and get over it easily. I'm planning to keep these hatches, but I need to figure out some kind of quick release attachment for these arms so I can take the hatch completely off and replace it with a fabricated popup sort of thing.
Fitting the roof patch.
Since I'm going to have to get my riveter going again, I decided to also deal with the handle for my side exit door. This one actually came off easier than the one in back, although I still had to cut it. Doing this kind of thing with a diamond cutting blade instead of a zip wheel feels a lot safer. I was able to cut in pretty deeply from both sides and then a couple of good whacks with a sledgehammer bent it off.
The last little chunk of handle came off with the little yellow tab, but then I had to completely cut the tray out. I realize now that the tray was probably just held in with seam sealer and that I could have removed it slightly less destructively, but oh well.
I like to get my screws and bolts lined up in an orderly fashion, but sometimes they have to be slightly wonky to deal with what's underneath. This patch is going to be kind of hard for me to look at.
About half the time when I leave my bus at my lot I forget to throw the deadbolt on this door so I'm basically leaving the bus open. I'm not going to have to worry about that any more.
