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rruff I know you know all of this stuff anyway but here are a few thoughts.... It is just my opinion based on nothing particularly scientific and I am probably splitting hairs and of course, there is the question of what is toughness. For me due to past terrain choices, toughness is generally...

Agreed and thanks. I also borrowed a few ideas along that stratedgy from your past work. And, yes, about an 800 lb reduction from my Kodiak but I do miss a lot of what the moulded fiberglas shell had to offer , not the least of which was it's exterior toughness.

It is funny how the lingo used to describe things can be slightly different. I have always thought of "Space Blankets" as those very thin mylar sheets with a reflective coating which are folded up very small and are sealed in a plastic bag and are designed pretty much for an emergency, one use...

Looks great and welcome back to the old Kodiak!

We use both a footprint and a "custom" cut piece of building wrap (Tyvak) under the tent. As ITTOG mention, it is critical to make the tarp slightly less wide than the tent floor, all around. Cheap tarps work just as well. We don't use it under the vestibule. We are mostly worried about...

VerMonsterRV I recently put a flexible SS exhaust pipe through a composite panel, albeit with lower exhaust gas temps from propane. For part of my insulation "sandwich" I used a mounded re-enforced silicone engine turbo flange. They are available in a variety of configurations and diameters...

Tucson A few years ago, I used a one part Coronado brand industrial polyurethane rust paint called "Rust Scat" to do the exterior of a fiberglas truck camper I had redone. It is found in Benjamin Moore stores and the same paint is now called something else, thank goodness. I wanted to have...

Dean, when we "winter up", I'll be banging on your door for some advice! PS, just got "Barrow's Boys", it looks great.

ITTOG Thanks. I have had a few of the moulded truck campers. A Bigfoot (8'2") and a couple of Kodiaks (8'3") to be exact. I liked them all for different reasons just that now, I really wanted to get away from the weight and size and with the Bigfoot especially, all the build-ins and "mass...

Wow, Dean, that is pretty over the top! Sounds like she had a burr. Like Klahanie mention earlier, I also have never seen our inland ferry folks double check anyone's assurance of compliance. Out here in the Kootenays, we are what I think you call "chill". Our Ferry Lady generally wears a...

Klahanie Ah yes, another failed attempt at humour. The story of my life.......... The "joke" was about our Canadian dollar being referred to as a Peso or worse, by many of my American friends and a few folks here as well. The costs cited on the post were in Canadian dollars, very rough...

CPT Camper Build - Part 3 and Final I am pretty much finished with my build, all but a few trim bits are left and one last circuit I am still designing but it can wait. The only big thing left that I am considering is through bolting the camper to the truck bed. My “thinking inside the...

Gator70 Wiring was all surface. For the runs to lights, I used white click together track to enclose the wire which worked really well. The double sided tape that it came with seemed of pretty good quality but I backed it up by caulking all of the edges. I had to cheat a piece of hollow trim...

Thanks for the response COT. You are right, the "CAD" for me was invaluable. Many of our initial ideas were actually pretty goofy and with the full size model, these got nixed before I even lifted a tool. The camper is light nodoubt. I thought it was more like 700 lbs but I just don't know...

Further to my last reply to you, just FYI the CPT campers orginated from mobile, truck based ambulances so I am guessing that the robust floor in my unit is just a continuation of that standard. The floor strength and the ability to secure equipment, gurneys, etc to it, would be vital in the...

Thanks for the compliment and good question on the floor cleats. Initially, I used both glue and screws for the floor cleats but that was before I drilled the hole through the floor for the vent in the propane locker. After seeing the profile of the aluminium/foam/aluminium core, I was...

Ah yes, gone but not forgotten, just like Dame Edna and Sir Les Patterson....

Thanks TT. Indeed, it is beautiful, when you get it right...:)

Part 2 - Cabinetry Once I had played with and changed around the cardboard mock up of the inside cabinetry, it was time to get going on it. As I mentioned before, I chose to work with wood just because of familiarity. I certainly under stand the not insignificant weight gain with it...

In sand, we scratch out or dig a slit trench perpendicular to the the run of the tiedown string and then loop the end of tiedown around the middle of a piece of stick . Then just bury it a foot or so down and stomp on it to pack it well. Often you can scratch out the trench with the same...