Body (or lack of it)

[T'Onion]

good effort Mike .. loving the colour

[Plasticman]

Back to the 1/2 day again, connected the hob and fitted the oven

back partition for dog box and garage in, all will become clearer!

looking through from the back

water tank fitted, this is inside as we go off a lot in the winter so dont want the hassle of a frozen supply, it holds 60 ltrs which seems a lot but we often get into the wilds for a week at a time so dont want to be stuck for it, same with the leisure gastank, fed up paying over the odds and having a numty propane cyc' in the way, and deciding if its full enough for a week with heating etc, .
will look to fitting a water heater in the back there as I have the system pressurised so it would be nice to have outside shower of tailgate as well as hot tap for sink.

Im sort of glad the colour is liked/ok as I expected flack and to be honest I wasnt sure myself if it would work
mike

[Plasticman]

Back to it this evening, may not mean much but today the gas went live! hob Oven and fridge all working good


fridge I have made to be removable in less than 3 minutes (with spannes handy) base sits in 2 cutouts and the top held by a small bolt at either side, so gas off and disconnect .lift flue off ,slide bolts and its out.

This is the 1/4t v/v for the thermX cat heater, all pipes nice and secure.

fitted one of the leisure batteries and all stuff funtion tested and working, , of the pair of batteries, they have been on smart chargers over the past year but disconnected a couple of weeks ago, one reads 12.6v the other 11.58v so I amd going to run with the 12.6 for now and recharge the other but I fear its days are numbered?
dont like the idea of pairing up a good and bad battery.
tommorow the interior gets another clean and the top painted, just the muddle bit, window seals and some door seals to fit.
slider centre hinge assembly to rebuild and also btm hinge/roller.
tailgate seal and no plaste lights then bumpers and bits and bobs so should be a runner for monday then the work starts on all the part fin nished jobs etc.
mike

[murdoch]

your hard work is really paying off !!

looking real good, love it!

[Plasticman]

Well I hope its paying off we left for a trip on tuesday and are now in Hawick,(hoiyk) van running well will do a blog on another thread in the next day ort so, heading for Alnwick and then edinborough way
mike

[pocolow]

I'm impressed by the work on the van Mike and the quality of the interior, matches the hardwork you've done on the outside. Glad to see that bumper you got of us has been put to good use. Looking forward to seeing all the completed photo's..

Mark

[Plasticman]

Will have to wait a short bit for the rest of the pickies, just back from a 1600 mile proving trip up the highlands so will post the writeup in "general"?
body or lots of its first trip...
mike

[Zebedee]

Very nice work on the interior.
Where did you get the trim for around the cupboard openings?

[Tatty Chap]

Im starting to suspect that this man could create a van from Iron ore and a tree

[Plasticman]

trim mouldings came from olearys in beverley, all different widths colours profiles etc, cheap as owt,

Er funny you shoulkd say that but I did/do make vehicles out of flat ally sheet and tubes of luvly cds, will dig out picks and post, also make the suspension, fuel ,tanks ,headers and inlets
just hate working with wood its the devils clothes
mike

[Plasticman]

well we g

[dugcati]

well we g

[billybigspud]

blimey

i really admire people who have the skills to do this sort of stuff. a real talent. got any more pics?

jamie

[Plasticman]

Christ Jamie. theres 10 pages of posts, how many more do you want!
mike

[billybigspud]

sorry mate, i meant newer ones of how it looks now

jamie