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Angle Iron has many of the same properties as square tube, but you can use the inside. Likewise bent sheet can be remarkably strong/stiff, there's a lot of places you don't need drawers to be as strong as bumpers, The Coroplast above is a good example. Part of outfitting a rig is figuring out...

Metal is great where tension comes into play and thinner than nearly any other material... but heavy. I don't think even aluminum has the same strength/weight ratio as good birch plywood. I had a wooden pull-out kitchen, basically a 5' long box that cantilevered off of my tailgate, that...

Richelieu makes all sorts of tambour doors and has parts for metal DIY kits too. Perhaps they have something that will work. https://www.richelieu.com/us/en/category/hinges-slides-and-opening-systems/opening-systems/tambour-doors/1002766

...So what's wrong with the MV-50? Anything that uses a lighter plug won't be fast enough. Anything that is faster than an MV-50 will cost over $100 & if it doesn't it probably only has a duty-cycle for bicycles. Big-box stores have inflators for under $50, they just take forever, so you might...

Are those Volvo C303's available in Canada? Can you use that with a new body you build yourself?

BlueSea publishes some good resources that are pretty well organized to help you sort through the calculations required. https://www.bluesea.com/resources/1437 (this is the first of 2, the other links are at the bottom) It is worth remembering that fuses or breakers exist to protect the...

The premium one pays for a "legendary reliability" has legendary staying power. You pay extra to roll it off the lot, ten years later, someone else pays extra for something they think they can trust, five years after, the same. All that time, there was a Nissan that did the same thing, no bed...

that will be one crazy ice-cream truck! No regrets!

Make a plywood or aluminum buck you can mount the heater on and insert into the frame of a partially open window. Combustion intake & exhaust point outside, body of the heater, electrics and intake and output inside and custom cut the buck for a good seal once you have the van. --if it draws...

in my experience, using block sealer for anything other than a small leak was just forestalling the day the plug would fail and the big leak would return in inconvenient glory. Small leak fixed, small failure later, big leak fixed...

Congratulations! Musta' been a long wait, let us know what you do with it--

I've run Michlen X-ice on my truck for winter drives up to the mountains; 300 mile round trip with 50-100 in snow and the rest wet at best. They would last 3-4 seasons on the truck for 5 months at a time, excellent snow/slush/wet traction for the whole life, really predictable on ice. sometimes...

If earning money or trusting people were my hobbies, of course I'd pay someone to make my truck dreams real!

Got any seals in there that the TIG might melt? What's the working temp of the braze?

$2.75/watt is expensive, even at 20% efficiency--but if it fits, maybe that's the best choice! You can also look at a pair of 100w panels to fit your roof--many of those are around $1/watt...

I’ll take the sand ladders, thanks- MSG. Sent

If you plan on joining two batteries together, you should probably fuse both ends of the connecting cable (which the isolator sits somewhere in the middle of)--if both ends have power, both can short. That being the case, disconnect one battery when you want to jump someone else, reconnect once...

Nice work! Much harder to pull a hat out of a rabbit... Hope you're having more fun than us watching.

I use ammo cans that go on the roof. No smell, critter proof, fits a small liner and can take a good amount of packing.

I think most of the Victron components I've seen are made in India, for what it's worth. How is REDARC support? I know Victron works to keep their products updated and communicating with each other pretty constantly, which is a plus.