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Post by Mustang on Mar 25, 2017 8:29:14 GMT 10
I had the same thoughts "what if I don't like it" So I cheated & used sticky back tiles, the floor is mostly covered in mats now anyway. Brent
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Post by atefooterz on Mar 25, 2017 10:14:26 GMT 10
During the recent 20+ days of non stop rain and various resting places of mud or fine sand, with water in common, an old habit of grabbing bits of thrown out carpet off the nature strip, has led to very practical throw away keep my floor dry & clean random pattern items. If there is no awning set up for a mud room, or if travelling & having a quick rest stop when even throwing off sandals/ thongs feet are still wet. Getting towels ultra wet & dirty- gritty is ok if being a day/ weekend camper but having to store them until washing machine is available a pain. I just cut 1m to 2m sacrificial mats out of old carpet after washing & drying them so an easy throw away item after a few uses or one good soaking. Bits can even be used as anti chafe padding when lashing things down = why i started grabbing bits of old carpet... steptoe like.
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Post by tasmillard on Mar 26, 2017 10:27:39 GMT 10
I noticed in the past my tip shop had rolls of marine carpet. Was tempted to grab some for my garage floor but decided it wasnt urgent at the time. Marine grade at least has a rubber backing and is meant for water (I must be addicted to marine grade stuff - ply, carpet...).
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Post by 78466noM on Mar 27, 2017 0:18:04 GMT 10
No carpet is going into van that means carting a vacuum cleaner around and with the wife's asthma a straw broom sweeping it would probably set of an attack so hard floor and maybe some mats that can be taken outside and shaken away from the wife a holiday in hospital is no fun. what I would have like to do was lay 7mm ply down first cut it to size and lay it over original floor then sand it and hit it with a clear coat for floors not the water based one as it won't let the timber change color over time. but that couldn't be done as the wife wouldn't have been able to go any where near it for months I did the house five weeks before we moved in she was here three days then in hospital for three days it took another two weeks with the house fully open to get rid of the smell but the floors look good.so the mr mdf laminate flooring is going in.
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Post by atefooterz on Mar 27, 2017 1:04:08 GMT 10
I do 2m carpet strips so the first meter is the hession back to scrape & grab fine stuff then the nap. This size is good to hose & defurr prior to using, plus the hession seems to dry fast so no nasty smells after 1 or 2 days.
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Post by 78466noM on Mar 27, 2017 9:02:55 GMT 10
I picked up the flooring for the annex that is supposed to stop sand being trudged into van when the wife picks the mats I will let her know to look out for the hession backed ones. we will have to steer clear of the rubber backed ones as the wife also has allergies on top of the asthma which is a trigger for it and latex is one those nearly everything that has rubber in its making has latex rubber.
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Post by atefooterz on Mar 28, 2017 21:54:26 GMT 10
I picked up the flooring for the annex that is supposed to stop sand being trudged into van when the wife picks the mats I will let her know to look out for the hession backed ones. we will have to steer clear of the rubber backed ones as the wife also has allergies on top of the asthma which is a trigger for it and latex is one those nearly everything that has rubber in its making has latex rubber. Latex allergy is a nasty. Mine come from throw out on the nature strip, i bag wrap them to bring home, then they stay "in quarantine" for a while in the weather to sun steralise & rain or hose - detergent if a dry spell, then cut & store. i have 3 atm so 1 in use, a spare & another if i chuck out the first if it gets manky: Some places have mud that does not clean or if it is too yuk & wet to travel i just chuck in a bin! Even the unemcumbered with design fussy partners, knockabout types, need some standards!
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Post by 78466noM on Apr 3, 2017 8:23:25 GMT 10
I have the base of the of the upper rear cabinet half done have to make frame for front then put ply on the top section to make as strong as possible hoping for new shift to start soon then i can spend two days a week getting van ready. will post photos when I get the frames up.
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Post by 78466noM on Apr 20, 2017 9:33:27 GMT 10
had a bit of a slow down on van as a list of appliances had decided to give up the ghost since Christmas the wife's hard drive in her computer her $1000 printer the main fridge 12volt caravan fridge and last week the main tv and my motherboard and power supply in the computer got a good deal on the tv waiting on parts for my computer so I am on my celery lap top. So Tuesday I spent hunting up what I needed to put the electric brakes on and as it goes the mounting plate I welded to the axle was perfect for the 9inch brakes but puts the drum the width of the mounting plate too far away so a remodel have ordered another pair of mounting plates and will have to mount them and weld them to the plates already on there. second problem is now it very hard to get wheel and off so have ordered 90mm shackle plates to replace the 75mm shackle plates hopefully the extra 25mm will lower axle just enough for wheel to be replaced easily.Anzac day I have a fence to put up so parts should be ready for brakes for Tuesday week. On a positive I now have lights working on rear of van just have to set up side lights I was going to put the original style lights on side but the rubber gasket won't sit right because of the shape of the aluminum profile so now to make it neat I am going to solder wires on LED lights I have and run the joined wires inside wall. Not what I wanted to do but won't cost me anything as I already have the 10-30volt lights. This type is the best to buy cost is a bit extra but less likely to fail something to do with main parts used to let it run multi volt as opposed to the one just for 12volt. Have fun hopefully fence is finished Tuesday and I get the lights all finished next Wednesday.
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Post by Mustang on Apr 25, 2017 19:37:18 GMT 10
I guess after all your hard work, some results can be disappointing, but consider what you have done successfully, later on this will seem like a minor setback. keep up the good work & reporting.
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Post by 78466noM on Apr 26, 2017 12:34:46 GMT 10
not disappointed that things don't fit as it should strait up it is old mechanical moving from one part to a different part only has a thirty percent chance of bolting strait on perfect no modifications so a minor setback but nowhere near the straw that broke the camels back I now have the parts so next Tuesday is brake put the new longer shackle plates in and hopefully get side lights in . today is getting the rear upper cupboard in and the father in-law should have my computer ready this afternoon if so will bet some pic's the poor little laptop will do them but takes a while.
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Post by tasmillard on Apr 26, 2017 16:12:06 GMT 10
The Millard was similar in terms of wheel space and guard when trying to remove it. One way is to put a scissor jack in between the axle and the frame to force a wider gap.
All the very best mate, your getting there!
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Post by 78466noM on Apr 27, 2017 9:44:18 GMT 10
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Post by 78466noM on May 4, 2017 20:46:20 GMT 10
Finally got the upper cupboards in rang electrician to make sure how I have to run conduit so next Tuesday in with the conduit organize electrician and start on fixing the backing plates for electric brakes and putting in new shackle plates photo chucket is playing up as soon as it works again I will put up photos.
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Post by 78466noM on May 7, 2017 0:16:42 GMT 10
Well photo chucket has been invaded and I have had to move to flickr so here is the photos I have taken of cupboards and the rear lights will have to make up a file of the build so far and move it to flickr so all is in one place. www.flickr.com/photos/154612785@N05/shares/QUy039 see if this works
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Post by tasmillard on May 8, 2017 8:25:55 GMT 10
That is coming along really nicely, looking great!!
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Post by 78466noM on May 10, 2017 19:59:49 GMT 10
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Post by Mustang on May 11, 2017 17:51:10 GMT 10
Holy Dooly, what a fussy job. I only passed our cables through conduit through the frames, elsewhere it was like original. Great Work.
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Post by 78466noM on May 12, 2017 0:50:22 GMT 10
My way of looking at it the electrician has to sign off on it with it this way there is no hidden problems and no where for the wires to chafe on aluminum frame the hard plastic rings didn't give me a great deal of confidence age made them brittle and loose in the holes. I ran the twelve volt though it any problems down the track can be fixed by cutting and running wires under van 240volt is not so easy but can kill very easy.
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Post by 78466noM on May 17, 2017 19:42:58 GMT 10
Got a fair bit done had a go at the brakes again another wrong part so that has to wait did get the longer shackle plates in now the wheels are as easy to get off as when it had eight inch brakes makes it a lot safer to change wheels in an emergency situation, also got a bedhead made somewhere to put the lamps and mobile phones also got the running lights all on and working fiddly work and a lot of working out how the side lights were going to fit on but done now still a lot of tidying up. www.flickr.com/gp/154612785@N05/1eb269 Electrician will be here Tuesday or Wednesday so it will have electricity just to flick a light on will be a big change.
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Post by tasmillard on May 23, 2017 13:28:50 GMT 10
Looking great as always and getting closer each time. When you get the van registered, I think I will also 'feel the joy' with you as you have been so kind to share the journey. Looking forward to that moment
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Post by 78466noM on May 23, 2017 17:41:54 GMT 10
We now have electricity had to get up extra early and it cost a fair bit but well worth it and I know it is safe. I have also now got 10 inch electric brakes on still have to wire them up. I have another day off so will see what else I can get done. www.flickr.com/gp/154612785@N05/wi5e1p
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Post by Mustang on May 24, 2017 9:36:51 GMT 10
We now have electricity had to get up extra early and it cost a fair bit but well worth it and I know it is safe. I have also now got 10 inch electric brakes on still have to wire them up. I have another day off so will see what else I can get done. www.flickr.com/gp/154612785@N05/wi5e1p Re the brakes: Use at least 8mmsq cable & wire in parallel not series. Parallel is equal length cable to each brake, earth both sides. Series is down one side & across to the other brake with one earth (too much voltage drop,) (Although the older industry adopted this method) As for the plug, I bought both sides together then soldered all to a smaller diameter cable to suit the flat 7x pin, a few mm of smaller cable would not amount to too much voltage drop. Collyn Rivers (RV Author) says not to solder ? but I do, I dont know how you get out of it. Cheers Brent
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Post by Rattles on May 24, 2017 10:42:13 GMT 10
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Post by Mustang on May 24, 2017 17:25:49 GMT 10
Well, I never knew such a devise existed, an interesting website.
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