“Ice cube” A custom square drop camper

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kitchen slider built, installed and tested. I also finished the water tank mounts for the front and rear. This will give me 27 gallons of water capacity. I was able to plumb the tank fill where the old fuel filler was.

 

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Spray day! Full spray bed liner inside before adding the sub floor. Then install floor and spray again, color spray next. Its not perfect but I was on a deadline to go camping the following weekend. I no also got a chance to cut all the aluminum hatch panels that cover the storage cubbies.

 

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First night out. Long way from being done but she tows like a dream.

 

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Designed and made the electrical panel. Trying to keep it as compact as possible. This will be running from a 170ah lithium battery with 200 watts solar on the roof. I looked and looked for something that was clean and low profile for running the solar wires through the roof but was unable to find anything that looked right to me so this is what I came up with. Should do nicely and is only marginally thicker then the wiring itself.

 

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In the spirit of stability I opted to use two 60” locking drawer slides for the slide kitchen. This means both hands were required to unlock and drawer out the kitchen whick quickly became annoying. My solution was to create mounts that attach to the existing locks that allows for a cross bar. Now its one hand opening. Additionally I fabricated some fridge hold downs that bolt to the existing fridge handle locations. The rear fridge mount also doubles as the kitchen sub panel location to run the fridge, charging, and lighting. The power to this sub panel is routed through a small cnc drag chain to ensure no electrical pinching.

 

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Currently in the process of installing the diesel heater. With the limited space I opted to bring the vent up through the floor. Since I have little kiddos and theres always the concern of blankets or pillows covering the vent I created a heater “cage” so it can never be easily obstructed. For fuel supply I have modified a diesel Rotopax which will live in the dead space inside the fridge compartment. I haven’t decided yet if I will permanently mount it with an external fill or go with quick disconnects.

 

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Ventilation fan is installed and wired up. I installed the upper bunk wall foam. I still need to install the front box roof rack before I can add the headliner.

 

[billiebob]

This level of craftsmanship borders on shop guy porn. I really want a tour of the tools in your shop.

 

[Kingsize24]

Absolutely STUNNING work here!