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Build Thread on NOPEC - Continued - Making the exterior "One" One of the many downfalls of older (maybe newer as well) factory built mass produced campers of any sort, is that they are invariably screwed together, basically turning a bunch of small pieces into a single entity. This labour...

Looking forward to seeing your ice road adventures!! I don't know if you guys have seen these yet, but Parks Canada recently released to YouTube, a Trilogy of documentaries ("Into the Arctic") made by a relatively young Canadian Landscape artist/videographer named Cory Trepanier from back east...

It is amazing what you can do with long underwear, a tarp and a headlamp.........

Recently, I rebuilt a fiberglass shelled camper and went through the same quandary when it came time to finish the exterior. I looked hard at all of the marine stuff, both one and two part as well as, the various bed liner products, etc. Like you, I wanted something that wasn't too shiny, easy...

Further to my last post. this is the second installment of this build thread; c. Re-do all of the interior walls that were affected by the fiberglassing (cont'd) After I glassed over all of the window holes and other large openings, I then had to fix the inside walls. I filled the holes in...

Always winter because there are waaaay better things to do outside when it is above 0! (other than skiing, of course....)

I think the issue these days is the trend towards lightening the weight of our vehicles and part of that is the continuing reduction of the thickness of the sheet metal in the pickup boxes, be it steel or aluminium. Several years ago, I had a set of commercial stake pocket anchors with a camper...

Warning - Kinda lengthy and photo heavy.... Further to my last post. So the plan with this camper was as follows, Stage 1 - Interior mostly a. Gut the interior down to a point where I could prep to fiberglass over all of the unwanted openings. b. Fiberglass over these body openings which...

As winter starts to gently settle in around these parts, I have plans to do a bunch of renos to my camper which I "built" just before COVID. While thumbing through some photos to remind myself of what I had done, it occurred to me that others might be interested in the successes and failures...

Old Timer just hanging on, Saskatchewan this fall.

A few thoughts to further muddy the soup. First, very sorry about the loss of your wife. Many manufacturers out there that make both smaller and large slide in campers and to me, it seems that most of the smaller campers are designed to take advantage of very the popular short box...

Take a good look at your back door. On my 90's Kodiak rebuild, I had the same issue. However, there is a flange which encompasses the door, held on with Phillips screws. When removed, it just gave me enough clearance to remove the old 3 way fridge. I can't image that the original build saw...

Yup again, and with basic skills and a friend or two with a few more, it is amazing what you can create that is both excellent and your own, even from the old stuff!!

Pisew Fall on the Grass River in Northern Manitoba during a portage while paddling the length of the river. You are right, we didn't consider running it, no, not for even a microsecond.........

I would agree with Trackhead on the build. It is just great and has been really inspiring. But, one of the best thing to me that came out of this build thread was a simple comment from IdaSHO a long time ago which I always rely on when I am banging away on my own projects. If I remember...

In BC, a steam donkey is generally known as a stationary steam powered winch which would have in the logging early days, functioned as what is known today as a yarder. It has a generally vertical, silo appearance and comprises of a vertical firebox on which sits the water box and coils, valves...

Yup, looking down on Farwell Canyon. At the center of the photo, you can see the top of the dunes and the path that gets you there. I never get tired of doing that road or being in that country!!

BC's Central Cariboo this spring.

Taken a few weeks ago on South Arrow Lake near Fauquier (which is BC's most carefully pronounced ferry crossing ("Folk yeah" is correct, not the other...). When I was lining up the shot, I had a flashback of my X mother-in-law and her sister, but am bigger than dwelling on ancient...