The Ultimate DIY thread - Ubuilding (Pics)
Hey all, There is another, albeit smaller, side to this whole RV thing - those crazy folks who build their own for whatever reason. Whether you've scratch-built it from the ground up, assembled a kit...
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Thx mang...
Funny thing: this originally started in my head as a bare-bones teardrop get-outta-Dodge camping rig but morphed into a bit of a behemoth. The next one will be back to a stripped down sleeping/cooking area with a beer cooler, secure space for hunting/fishing gear and that's about it...
Still, as the ol' body makes its creaks and groans at the end of a long but fun day, it's nice to have a real bed to crash on....
Today I started on the tail light 'pods'. I have the lights I'm going to use in the short term until I mold in some funky wrap-around automotive tail lights but I wanted to mount them in an external molding so that the only structural wall penetration would be for the wiring.
I have read elsewhere that styrofoam painted with a couple coats of TB3 will make the foam impervious to the deleterious effects of styrene-based resins... meaning it won't eat the foam ?
I certainly have enough TBIII on hand to test the theory !
These units will be screwed on (since they'll be replaced eventually...probably), so it makes sense to see if that particular piece of "internet wisdom" holds true. It should work but this will prove or disprove it for sure...with pics to follow, of course !
Anyway, on with the pics. Assume that the lights will be centered and the teardrop lens will probably be a bullet a la classic Caddy tail lights...but this is what I'm thinking:
The idea here is to lay up the pods with conventional (styrene) resin and glass since they will be bolted on rather than bonded. That will make sure that both sides are symmetrical (if not it would bug me every time I saw it...)
Funny thing: this originally started in my head as a bare-bones teardrop get-outta-Dodge camping rig but morphed into a bit of a behemoth. The next one will be back to a stripped down sleeping/cooking area with a beer cooler, secure space for hunting/fishing gear and that's about it...
Still, as the ol' body makes its creaks and groans at the end of a long but fun day, it's nice to have a real bed to crash on....
Today I started on the tail light 'pods'. I have the lights I'm going to use in the short term until I mold in some funky wrap-around automotive tail lights but I wanted to mount them in an external molding so that the only structural wall penetration would be for the wiring.
I have read elsewhere that styrofoam painted with a couple coats of TB3 will make the foam impervious to the deleterious effects of styrene-based resins... meaning it won't eat the foam ?
I certainly have enough TBIII on hand to test the theory !
These units will be screwed on (since they'll be replaced eventually...probably), so it makes sense to see if that particular piece of "internet wisdom" holds true. It should work but this will prove or disprove it for sure...with pics to follow, of course !
Anyway, on with the pics. Assume that the lights will be centered and the teardrop lens will probably be a bullet a la classic Caddy tail lights...but this is what I'm thinking:
The idea here is to lay up the pods with conventional (styrene) resin and glass since they will be bolted on rather than bonded. That will make sure that both sides are symmetrical (if not it would bug me every time I saw it...)
