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#19 (above) Time to get the stainless steel sink countertop on... (above) Instead of carefully measuring the plywood case, I make an 1/8" plywood strip pattern...Hot glue gun and utility knife are all that's needed... (above) The pattern gets traced onto the sheet stainless steel...

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By design, this Sprinter falls into the steel tent category, low on bells and whistles, high on multiple functionality...Purposely, the systems inside are kept simple, low in cost to install and maintain...Compromises exist and those who have me design and build interiors that are similar to...

There is 49" between the wheel wells...More than enough room for two...

# 18 (above) Behind the driver seat... (above) This is how I did the side door table too...T-nuts go where the screws come up from the brackets... (above) Countersink the T-nuts at least flush... (above) Rough plywood tabletop mounted to drop down hardware...I'm thinking of 1/4" walnut...

# 18 (above) Curb side door drop down table 99% installed...Still need to white paint the edge and get the right screws to mount it... (above) Simple... (above) The magnets align with the screws...The screws are washered out for optimum magnet contact...Nylon bimini top hooks hold the...

# 18 Here's what the cork lid looks like... (above) Since I took two days off to do that show in Portland, I'm working Saturday...I'm also into a cold...But the hope is to get the drop down tables close to done today...This is what the driver side rear door looks like...The masking tape...

The Pressure Sensitive Adhesive (PSA) is a double sided tape that i got on a 18" wide x 750' roll for about $450 a few years ago...I don't remember where i got it...It is "destructive strength" which means that the bond will hold and the materials will fail before the adhesive bond breaks...I...

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The fan blades obscure most of the light anyway...It doesn't do much to increase the light back there...I think once the conversion is done the ambient light will be fine...I'm adjusting the wall plan to accomplish that... BTW: If you daydream less about getting laid, you might notice it's...

# 17 (above) With the drawer faces on, it was time to make pulls for the drawers and doors...Some walnut was rough cut, then planed to 5/16" thick and ripped to 1" wide...A quick fine sanding was followed with a thinned poly-u varnish bath and air drying... (above) The base of the pulls were...

# 15 (above) After a weekend of torrential rain, fiberglass and epoxy on the new SUP, and refinishing a hundred year old rocking chair, it was back to the drawer slide bolts... (above) The walnut slide bolts are sealed in a bath of gloss polyurethane varnish, thinned out 50%, air dried and...

Q& A # 2 Yeah, it was something like that...Those were drawer Accuride brackets, "repurposed"...Simpson brackets would work just as well... The important thing is to mount the bracket to the 1/2" plywood case wall first, and leave at least 3/8" gap behind the bracket so when you put the...

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Sure...The skylight square hole and the bolt holes for the skylight and the L tracks all were caulked with underwater grade 3M caulking...Water and air tight...The other holes that were drilled through the wheel wells for wires and for the drain got a similar sealing...All the other sheet metal...

# 15 (above) Before the drawers get installed, they get scuff sanded with 80 grit on the random orbital sander...Later I'll round off the top edges by hand... (above) A couple hours in the van and they are fitted, shimmed and secure... (above) The drawer faces are cut to length, then to...

Holes get screws...Are you saying that it's important in your climate to prime where screws fill the holes...???...That seems like something an engineer would do...I'm not an engineer... Are you saying screws should get rubber grommets...???...That would prevent a tight attachment, no...

# 14 (above) Looks like a good day to build some drawers...The shop got cleaned up and a new blade is in the tablesaw... (above) The measurements have been made and the rough cuts are done... (above) Drawer sides are rabbeted... (above) All the drawer boxes are assembled before the...

# 13 (above) Behind the driver seat will be another drop down table, this one will be wall mounted...To attach it securely, the 1/4" wall plywood was cut with a knife, then backing/mounting brackets were made... (above) The van wall is not plumb and for the table to open level the plywood...