Project Choose Your Own Adventure

[ScottyB]

thanks guys.

Best build the club has seen!

you crazy.  

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got the hatch finished, brake light mounted and up it got heaved onto the camper today with help from a buddy.  immediately one of the speaker boxes broke off in hilarious fashion because that inside hatch wall covering material is garbage....wish i never used it but oh well.  brief moment of panic when the hatch then wouldn't close.  found out my hinge screws were interfering with a little bit of the cedar bulkhead at the top, hogged it out with a dremel bit and its better now.  need to massage the trim a bit to seal more evenly but i think i can just pop it with a deadblow in a few places and manage.  i hate the hatch engineering, that has taken at least 3 years off my life.

mounted the entry conduit for all the wiring on the front.  after adding the 12VAC powerstrip for my wife's APAP machine i found out the powerstrip cord is massive.  wouldn't fit in my 3/4" conduit with all the other wires that run to the electrical box so i had to get creative and build "outward" from the surface to make room and give me a place to mount a second 90 degree elbow just for the AC cord.  fiddling around in Home Despot i found a sweet little junction box that worked a treat.

caulked a bunch of trim.  i may be an artist by trade but caulk is not my medium.  total shit job but its a 10 footer.

caught off guard with a pretty important step i neglected - insurance.  thought we were good to go with Progressive weeks ago, before i pulled the trigger on a policy online today i called just to confirm with a human and sure enough "yeah our online system can't account for "home-built", in GA we can't do that, sorry".  so i've buried a couple hours today calling all over for someone that will insure it for an agreed value.  we'll most likely have to move both our cars to a new policy for them to cover the camper under a rider.  home built stuff just doesn't sound like a winning play to them which i can't blame.  might work out better that way...allstate's been kind of shitty with our premiums these days.

i'm covered in cuts, bruises, bites, my skin is tainted white with marine sealant and i have metal shavings in all my shoes.  there are drill bits all over the floor and i've dragged about 8 feet of masking tape into my house on my clothes by accident.  my shoulders are knotted and my hands are sore.  lets do it again tomorrow!

Tuesday:

• mount hatch latches
  mount fenders
  mount tongue box
  mount "porch" lights on side
  finish undercoating the bottom of the chassis
  check over gaps/caulking/trim for watertightness
  

Dave sent me this.  can't wait to put it on the hatch.  i love the Swansonisms and its exactly what this mess has been about.  thanks man.