Having just completed the tie-downs and camper corner build over in Chapter 6 Jacks and Tie-downs (steel & aluminum, sandwiching the wood and siding) and spending the past four days posting that big job, which actually began about
10 days ago with parts taken to DS-in-law for welding, I was ready for a break.
Besides, lately the nice Spring days have been making it really hard to stay inside, and numerous Spring chores are calling my name! It's been beautiful for late March in Wyoming.
Now it's time to re-group and get some other work done, and get my head into the next portions of Lil' Queeny. I may be in and out for awhile.
But there are numerous small jobs I could get in the meantime, and they'll be in here - Finishing - as often as not. I think one coming up in "Exterior" and a couple in "Electric", etc.
The major jobs still to do include upholstery, at both the dinette and the bed, and both of those areas will include some lumber building with special treatment I have planned in those places. Also the bathroom work, the exterior edge trimming, clearance light special treatment, floor, and the fresh water lines and plumbing! Not to mention specialty things that may well end up as "future modifications", such as storage bins in the right side wheel wells accessible from under the cushion in the wing.
I suspect these main things might all get finished by summer some time, but the April completion goal is not attainable.
However, this project isn't about getting done, it's about doing what's necessary. And at this stage of the game, I don't feel it can be rushed. It just needs to take as long as it takes.
So here's a little piece I did the other day that I haven't reported on yet. Trimming the interior of the overhead bunk escape hatch.
If you've done anything with vinyl home siding (maybe steel siding is similar, I don't know) you know what I mean by "J trim" or molding. If you look at it's profile it's in the shape of a J, and is fastened to your house along a wall edge, giving the end of a length of siding a channel to sit in. It holds the ends and finishes the edges.
That day (long, long ago) when we bought some clearance priced siding at the home center for me to cut my camper's interior "outside corner trim" from, DW pointed out the J trim pieces and asked if I could use those. I said, yes - maybe. So here I am using them now.
Here's what I had after making some rips and cuts on the table saw. I had just enough to do the four longer runs around the escape hatch, but two pieces were not long enough to miter the 45 degree angles. So I used a slightly different treatment in the corners. Also shown are the holes drilled for screws.
Here's the view from the pillow.
And from the Greatroom.
I also removed the unsightly decals from the aluminum framing. Shhhh, don't tell OSHA. That black handle is temporary too. We haven't yet chosen final cranks.
