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Trailer 22

Mattress and curtains installed. Cute curtains done by Jess. Eventually I'll make the inside womb pink or something funky.

Just a handful of tiny things left to do. I want to inject more grease into the bearings so I need to pick up a grease gun. I want some wheel chocks, but I have some 2x4s I'll prolly end up using instead of making anything fancy. I also want to install a tiny peice of window trim around the passenger side window for aestetics. It's presently drying in the garage. Should be about 1 hour of work tomorrow after the day job.

Then PACKING!

Trailer 21

Op!

Trailer 20

GREEEEEEYYY.

Looks black in these photos, but it's the same grey as my TRUCKKKK

Still gotta:

1. Wire and install the running & brake lights
2. Hit the frame parts + exposed steel with some flat black spraypaint
3. Weatherstrip
4. Grease bearings
5. Install fenders
6. Install 12v adapter into box thingy

All by next week!

Trailer 19

Primer. It's a fumy good time.

Trailer 18

Got that box fabricated in. I originally tried to match a radius curve from the outside on the box - a cabinet maker I am not. After some demo and massive removal of dried liquid nails, I created it as it is.

Everything's wired up in the front. I should replace the dual 10ga battery mains with some 8ga when I get some, and I'm missing two crimps as well (making the lights flicker amusingly when I hit certain spots with the orbital sander.) The fan runs and blows nice outside air right above where our heads will be.

I still have to install the back two fans on some sort of sliding closing system. I haven't stood around a hardware store yet and scratched my ass thinking about it, but I will soon. Maybe before the trip, maybe not. I dunno.

Trailer 17

Was REALLY hot this weekend, only got about 10 hours of work in over three days. Pretty wimpy, but I got the door and windows in. Was a PITA. Pretty much everything is varnished too.

Things left to do for tomorrow night:

1. wire up switches, fuse box, solar charger wire, fans, fan guards and put the battery in a fixed place
2. create a little box inside to hold all of the above nicely out of sight with hinges for access.
3. Vaccum, sand off drippings and clean out the interior
4. duct work from the front fan to a nice looking vent on the inside, inc insect screens/fan mount/etc. Future expansion includes a filter and a AC radiator.

Things left to do before August 25th

1. Hatch t latch
2. Prime and Paint everything
3. Install massive weather stripping and rain gutters over door + hatch connection points
4. Repack bearings, reinstall temp fenders, wire up break/turn signals and outside running lights
5. get it inspected by KDOT

Trailer 16

Welding is fun! Steel > wood. I should make the next trailer entirely out of steel. Mmmm.

Everything that faces the outside has been caulked and varnished.

Things left to do before road trip:

1. Varnish the underside/inside of the hatch
2. fabricate and attach a door with window
3. install a receiver hitch and light harness in the truck
4. install the hatch t-lever and locking mechanism
5. pack the bearings & attach the temporary fenders
6. wire and install temporary taillights and running lights
7. paint the damn thing & seal the bottom 2" of wood with tar
8. build a cubby and fan housing on the inside & attach cargo net hooks to the ceiling

I'll try to hammer out some of that tomorrow.

Trailer 15

Day off work! Makes up for the massive overtime I put in from last week. Aaah. Worked harder than I would have at work. A nice 95 degree afternoon with 90% humidity made for a perfect day to sweat like I'm hanging in a fn sauna. Kansas July sucks.

Picked up another few sheets of Luan to skin the hatch. While skinning it 'separated' due to the pressure the luan was putting on it trying to bend back to it's native shape. I'm gonna have to do a creative fix for it which might end up looking sweet.

I've gone through like 20 bottles of liquid nails. It's really quite impressive the amount of that crap on this trailer.

Second - bondo is fantastic. Fiberglass bondo can cover gaps and be sanded down. I picked up some 'lightweight gold' bondo which is comparatively green runny diarreah to the pubic soup of bondo glass. It hardens in a flash after using it for maybe 60 seconds. It was pretty amazing to behold and totally took me off guard the first batch: Stir stir stir smear smear crumbly wtf?!

Random pics below. Oh the hinge is installed on the hatch. It's the black thing with the 90 screws in it. It actually opens and closes!

Trailer 14

OMG three days in a row wtf.

Stuck on the outer roof on everything but the back hatch. Was really hot this afternoon. Good lawd. Mixed up some pubic hair soup (aka. bondo-glass) and used it to seal the joints and small gaps. Remember when I said that roofing tar was some of the nastiest stuff I've ever encountered? This stuff took the cake. It looks like what you pull out of a clogged shower drain and it smells so strongly that it occasionally penetrates the respirator. The smell is so strong that it seeped through the garage door and has permeated the house. Goodness. It's like baby diarrhea.

Oh, last shot is of 'extending my luan.' Gotta go get one more sheet for the back hatch and I should have all the siding done.

Trailer 13

Varnished the outside. Used my patented 'put heavy shit on the luan' bending technique as seen below to get the glue to stick. Uh, lights wired up. (they work!) Ceiling wiring done. Still gotta insulate and skin the outside.