Doors! Do we really need doors?

Howdy all once again. Well building this week seems to have come to a crawl. We have been working on the doors. Oh so much fun! Long story short I just knew I should have cut that extra 1/8 inch off. I knew it! After some frustration we finally just un-did everything we did and re-did it. All is good now and the door seems great. We will need to add a spacer to the hinges on the trailer side in order for it to work like it should.


My trim work isn't the best in the world but doesn't look too bad and think after it's all cleaned up it will be fine.






Still adjusting the doors here. We also lost a couple nights due to thunder storms so all in all it really wasn't a bad week just a slow one. The door on the other should be a bunch better and faster now that we know what we have to do.




A Look see from the inside.







Hung and ready for action. Well almost still need the spacers but that won't take too long. ( I don't think). Tonight we are taking a night off to enjoy some family time but Saturday morning we will be hitting it hard.

Till then.

Another fast weekend! They seem so short.

Another weekend is upon us and we were able to get a good start on things Friday night. As soon as both of us got off work we headed down to the county office and obtained our tags and what not. Quick and painles just the way I like it. Well not completely painless because we still had to pay for the tags but close enough. Then we headed over to Young's Trailer to see what he had in fenders. Pat suggested these so we took his professional opinion and took them. Not a bad deal either $30.00 for the pair. They are raw steel and need to be worked but they are in good condition so it shouldn't be too tough.


I was taking Noel though the steps for painting raw steel and she wiped out the prep work in no time. I told her she needed to come to the shop and do this for me. She kinda giggled and then gave me a "eh right"hahaha. Here's the fenders after the primer.

We spent the rest of the evening deciding on our plan of attack on the galley hatch.


Saturday morning, after a couple cups of joe We dug right in. We trimmed out the galley walls right off the bat. Next was to hit all the wiring in the door and set the latches up where they need to be.














Well I screwed the pooch on this one and was in no mood to change or fix it. I measured twice but still managed to flip the latch when I drilled the holes. We had already cut the lock bars and would have to order new ones to change it. So what all this means is our handle will be 2 inches to the left. aggghhh Noel kept joking all day. "qouting That 70's Show" "We moved every thing 2 inches to the left" " It's art man" :)

Here we set the door back in. You can see the wiring for the lights and speakers.

The first piece of aluminum is kinda on. Just checking and double checking. It's warming up and is quite humid so we are moving a bit slower now.

The lights and the plate holder are installed. I double checked all wiring before getting to this point but for good measure I checked again. Yup they all work. Let's hope it stays that way.

It's getting late Saturday night. Storms are moving in. It's kool to watch them build right over head. Lot's of lightning and thunder. Just kinda a slow even roar over head. It's still hot though. working on getting that second piece of aluminum installed before we call it a day.

It's Sunday morning. Thinks look a bit better this morning. We finished the trim, hinge and got the t-handle installed. The door still doesn't fit quite like I want but after some tweaking this morning it does fit, close and open a lot better. Still need to install the seals but will wait on those until we get some of the finishing details done. This was the only pic we got on Sunday. Wished I would have gotten more. We also trimmed out the doors on the cabin side. The battery, switch and charger are installed.(and work!). We ran all the wire from the galley hatch inside. We also finished priming the underside of the fenders and put on a couple coats of automotive undercoating. They are ready for paint now. We will take care of that this week some time. We are up to 21 tours of our TD so far. It's amazing it's never been any farther than our drive way. Can't wait till it hits the road.

See ya next time!

Raise the Roof!

Howdy all! We avoided the roof for as long as we could. It wasn't too bad. We set up the EZ-up to get the sun off us as it was pretty dang warm today. Also the metal gets hot fast and makes it hard to handle. The way our garage faces we get the full brunt of the afternoon and evening summer sun. So the EZ-up helped a lot.

We temp screwed the back side down. These screws will have to come out once we are ready to install the galley hatch.

Also installing the diamond plate aluminum on the front. We did this so that our trim will cover all edges.

Here it is with all the aluminum on and ready for trim.

Test fitting the trim and getting it all bent in the shape needed. We took it slow and steady. had a few buckles to work out but didn't come out to bad. We will pull it up at a later time and seal it all up real good but for now we are just getting the pieces cut and shaped. I actually shorted myself by 6 inches. GEEZ! So I have to find a 3 foot piece to take care of that. I knew I would be short on some of my trim pieces but I was sure I had enough of this trim. I guess not! oh well, were not ready finish up this part yet so we have some time to get more in. We are going to try and get our fenders tonight. They will have to be fitted and painted. Gave a couple more tours too! It's just amazing at the number of people that will stop and want to check it out. I've lost count but I think that makes 18 tours already and we’re not even done yet. The road you always see in the pictures is heavily traveled and we run into people all over town asking us how the trailer is going. It's crazy how many people are actually watching us build this thing. I always tell them to stop and take a look. Maybe we should sale tickets and give a show every half hour. :)

Side aluminum is on!

Howdy again, a bit late with some pics but this is the right side aluminum all glued up and ready to go. I know by the pics it looked like we already had this done but we only had the aluminum clamped up for storage. But now it's on for good.





This is the last time to see the wood on the other side. Don't think this stuff will be coming off any time soon.






The bottom of the aluminum will be covered with a strip if diamond plate. I elected to go ahead and install some rivets just for good measure. We were able to get or sun to help us on this. He likes using the tools so every chance we get we let him. He did good work. Scratched up the aluminum less than I did. :)



I was able to borrow some metal shears from a good friend of ours. We needed to make some of our trim pieces and I was cutting them by hand. uh! not any more. Made quick work of it tonight with these babies.




Here I'm installing some of the trim we cut. These are only here for filler. My trim does not quite cover the gap. So after looking around at a lot of other trailer builds I decided we could do it this way and all would be good.

Noel just having fun with the camera. I guess I shold take more pictures of her working. She really is working.

I don't remember what I was doing here!

We also installed the shelves in the front cabinet. Sure would have been a lot easier if we would have done this earlier. oh well gott'er done! Noel really like the use of space and thinks it will make some nice storage.

Still have a long way to go and with a deadline. we have about 3 weeks if we want to be able to use it for our family reunion coming up in July. So we will be bust'n it to get done.

Tonight we were able to finish off the insulation. May not be the purtiest job ever but I really don't have much paitence for this type of thing. I taped around some of it to make sure it stays in place. The wind blows around here all the time and first time I roll it out of the garage it will all go away.

Noel did some more painting. These are the shelves that will go in the front cabinet and she also finished off the spacers we made for the speakers that will go in the galley hatch. We did more electrical wiring tonight also. I figure if we do just a bit of the electrical a night it will be done in no time. Storms rolled in so we couldn't work on the TD long. It was a bit cramped in the garage but we did get some done. We called it early due to rain and sat on our duffs for a evening. Quite enjoyable too! See ya tomorrow.

Monday Again!

Mondays! yuck! It's plenty warm here now. We were enjoying the coolness for sure. We have very high humidty which is very unusal. So yeah, I'm complaining!

We started tonight getting that front cabinet installed.


It went fairly smooth other than getting off the carpet glue. My advise to anyone would be to try and be very neat when using this stuff. It's a pain to clean up!!!!!!!






Here you can see it with the doors open. We will be putting a shelf in for sure. We got the pieces cut and ready to go just didn't get them installed.













Here it is all trimmed out and ready to go, minus the shelf of course. We spent the rest of the evening running a few wires and trying to decide what, when and where all the other wires need to go. Most of the lighting is LED so last night in the dark we hooked a few up to see how they were going to look and just where we wanted to mount them. We have 12v plugs in the front cabinet and the rear cabinets. More stuff in the galley. Not sure what we will be doing tonight but we will do somthing.
Till next time!

Happy Fathers Day!

Happy Fathers Day to all you dads out there! Me and Noel did quite a bit today. Not much on the pictures but a lot has gotten done. We started our morning trying to the the carpeting all done. Here I'm putting carpet on the front cabinets. Can't stand that icky sticky glue. We were glad when we finally was able to be done with it.

The Front of the TD, don't mind the staples they are there to hold the carpet while the glue dries. This seemed to be the easiest solution. The staple were short enough that they don't go through the other side.

Here's the back side all sewed up too. We also were able to finish inside the cabinets. All the hardware is on and ready for action. It's amazing how much time you spend on the little details. It's true when they say 80% of your time is spent on the last 20% of the build.

I also managed to get the tail lights altered. I bought these on the net and liked the way thew would look. I went by the dimensions on the website and I shouldn't have. The websites dimensions did not include the extrusion containing the bulb assembley. So we had to chop it off and move to the side so that the lights would fit inside the galley door. The first one took a lot of time but the second one took just a few minutes. Isn't that the way it works?

Front cabinets all covered now. Just waiting for that dang glue to dry.

Noel picked up our matress also. This is going to be nice. She picked it up at wal-mart. 8in thick with some kind of fancy foam stuff. Queen size with a cover. We will have to save off a inch or so on the width but shouldn't be too bad.

We were able to get quite a bit more done but don't have pics of any of it. Some of the electrical components are installed and ready for wire. Loomed up the the trailer wiring that plugs to the tow vehichle. Cut some trim pieces out of the left over alluminum for the roof. Insulted the roof with just a bit left over. Now we will have to buy another piece just finish it. Did some sealing here and there. There was a lot more done but it is just as tedious to read as it was to do it. :)

till next time,

Saturday. These weekends tend to go by way to fast!

Howdy all, First thing Saturday morning we put in the rest of the roof spars. I think we were just avoiding cutting all the metal.





The yard looked like a junk yard while we had all the metal strung out. With the cost of alluminum now days we really wanted to make sure we cut it right. We picked up 2 new pair of snips and some metal jig saw blades. They all did thier job well.






Here is some of the roof metal sitting on top. We are not ready to install it yet but we had to get this stuff down to a manable size. With limited building space cutting it all down to size was the best option.



Here's the other side skin all cut out and ready. Man it sure does make a difference.





After a trip to Silverton for our nephews 1st b-day party we came back home and dove back in. Noel is hinging up the front cabinets. These are not very big but will be very useful in storing al our junk.





We finished up the inside ceiling skin.








Another shot of the inside ceiling. Minus the cabinet. We will get some pics of that today for everyone. We had to take it out to be able to finish up some other stuff on the front.




I think in this picture I just like to look through the door. With the alluminum on and the ceiling in it just looks so different.

More pics come for todays progress. See ya then.