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Lowly Update: For the record: I hate painting. Finishing the cabinets was a big hurdle. We decided to "whitewash" the built-in cabinet carcasses. Diluted white milk paint was mixed using a thrift store blender and applied using foam brushes so that the baltic birch plywood face and end grain...

Lowly Update: Its been a minute since my last update - summer and family stuff keeps piling on. Progress continues but at a less than desirable pace. Here's some stuff to prove I haven't thrown in the towel. Cabinet installation was completed resulting in test-fitting of all sorts of...

Lowly Update: More 3D printed goodies. Above the passthru between the habitat and cab is the location where air and electricity is run from one side of the truck to the other. I needed to build a cover for this area to hide the ducting and wire runs. I thought about cutting down a large PVC...

Lowly Update: A scattershot group of 3D printed components for the habitat while the cabinets get sanded and I wait for warmer temps in order to get them finished. First is a multicolor nameplate for a couple of electrical buttons on the fresh water side of the system: I needed to provide...

Bump: Price reduced to $15,000

Lowly Update: I designed the dining table to not only telescope up and down but to also double in size. This required a bunch of headaches as one would expect. First was milling the holes/slots for the concealed hinges. These had to be exactly aligned using a router set to different depths...

Lowly Update: Some more 3D printing, this time for the interior. First was the latches to hold the interior back wall hatch doors closed: A bunch of these are needed to conceal behind the hatches and be opened with the flick of a finger: When the rear bed is lifted up to the ceiling the...

Lowly Update: With the tanks back in the shop I was able to start fitting the components to turn them into working diesel and grey water tanks. The diesel tank/box has the following hookups: compressed air, diesel heater pickup, level sensor/sender, breather, engine diesel pickup & return...

Lowly Update: Tank and box work progresses. With all of the mounting brackets welded on by RGW the tanks/boxes were brought back to my shop for the last time. They were jacked back up into place and the steel subframe cross-members were match center-marked with the mount holes on the boxes in...

Lowly Update: A scatter shot of projects involving the 3D printer have been completed on Lowly. First was a couple of temperature controlled fans to pull air from the habitat's envelope and push it through the electrical cabinet (and back into the habitat). The goal is to provide a little...

Lowly Update: External tanks and storage boxes were welded up by Rogue Gear Works. Time to bring them home and test fit them - good thing I've got a big van! First had Things 1&2 help assemble the latches onto the box doors: Got the boxes located underneath the truck behind the rear...

Lowly Update: The exterior rear of Lowly's habitat will have a pivoting framework that will allow for elevated bicycle storage and a way to lift and lower our spare tires without the need for a complicated and electrically driven 4-bar linkage system. Some of the bits & bobs of this system...

Lowly Update: We will be using a urine diverting/desiccating toilet in Lowly. It will be housed in a compartment adjacent to the shower, sealed in by a large exterior cargo hatch: The toilet will be mounted to a custom aluminum shelf that slides in/out on super duty locking drawer slides...

Lowly Update: Cabinet carcass install has been completed - on to fabricating the drawers and cabinet doors. Please keep in mind this is my first rodeo into making these things so without a doubt I'm going about it differently than a professional would, but I do have my reasons! First big...

Lowly Update: 3D printer got fired up to help finish off the stairs. Bump stops were needed behind the top step to keep the stairs from rubbing and squeaking on the habitat's aluminum extrusion. A bit of orange PETG and some rivets did the job: On the other end, foot pads were needed to...