SLO_F-250
Explorer
Time for an update, don't you think xdbx?
Yea Dan! Whats up with the skamper??
Course I can give you too much crap. Ive been letting my camper sit and working on the truck! :sombrero:
Updating a 1988 Skamper 072S
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Yea Dan! Whats up with the skamper??
Course I can give you too much crap. Ive been letting my camper sit and working on the truck! :sombrero:
Skamp made its maiden voyage this weekend...
Turns out our favorite campground was still closed for the winter... This early spring has been AWESOME! :wings:
I'll update more later this week when I can photo document the progress. There's certainly been a LOT of work since last post, mainly in the building of that corner mold. We ended up making several different molds and plugs, and the project mushroomed quite a bit. We've now got a good male plug which made 2 good parts, one out of fiberglass cloth, and one hybrid cloth and blown strand reinforcement. I'm going to test out both to see which I like better...
Turns out our favorite campground was still closed for the winter... This early spring has been AWESOME! :wings:
I'll update more later this week when I can photo document the progress. There's certainly been a LOT of work since last post, mainly in the building of that corner mold. We ended up making several different molds and plugs, and the project mushroomed quite a bit. We've now got a good male plug which made 2 good parts, one out of fiberglass cloth, and one hybrid cloth and blown strand reinforcement. I'm going to test out both to see which I like better...
More Skampin...
First time running the furnace overnight. A bit of a pain to start, but once the pilot was nice and hot, it was solid. Fan was a little loud though. I'm going to look into swapping that in for a quieter one, and see about instaling a reostat/fanspeed controller. Will have to see how low I can go before the sail switch cuts out.
Also ran the fridge on 12v for the first time in transit. It worked great, but killed my type27 battery in short order. I believe ~20 hours of run time. Definitely need to get my act together and get my charging system set up.
Anyway, enjoying mine now! Hoping all this helps those in need. Here's a neat photo my better half snapped this weekend in upper michigan. Quite the artist she is...
First time running the furnace overnight. A bit of a pain to start, but once the pilot was nice and hot, it was solid. Fan was a little loud though. I'm going to look into swapping that in for a quieter one, and see about instaling a reostat/fanspeed controller. Will have to see how low I can go before the sail switch cuts out.
Also ran the fridge on 12v for the first time in transit. It worked great, but killed my type27 battery in short order. I believe ~20 hours of run time. Definitely need to get my act together and get my charging system set up.
Anyway, enjoying mine now! Hoping all this helps those in need. Here's a neat photo my better half snapped this weekend in upper michigan. Quite the artist she is...
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SLO_F-250
Explorer
More Skampin...
First time running the furnace overnight. A bit of a pain to start, but once the pilot was nice and hot, it was solid. Fan was a little loud though. I'm going to look into swapping that in for a quieter one, and see about instaling a reostat/fanspeed controller. Will have to see how low I can go before the sail switch cuts out.
Also ran the fridge on 12v for the first time in transit. It worked great, but killed my type27 battery in short order. I believe ~20 hours of run time. Definitely need to get my act together and get my charging system set up.
Anyway, enjoying mine now! Hoping all this helps those in need. Here's a neat photo my better half snapped this weekend in upper michigan. Quite the artist she is...
Looking sweet! Love the front bumper! I need to get lights back on mine! Im in the same boat as you. Really need to get the battery isolator setup going. Been on my to-do list to order everything for a while now!
ToolBox Guy
Adventurer
Entire rig looks awesome!!
Love the build and thanks for the info! Just picked up a '92 Skamp and like you, I have it in a larger pick-up ('08 F-150 with a 6.5' bed). How do you secure your camper? Mine doesn't overlap the bed rails much, so I'm worried a frame mount system would touch the outside of the bed. And the distance between the camper Eye-bolts and the bed rails is fairly short, so I'm not sure how well bed rail mounts would work. plus the angle isn't the best I would think. Any advice would be great. Thanks!![IMG_8497[1].JPG](https://expeditionportal.com/forum/data/attachments/346/346750-e3ffd85a692a05c1ed595445c4b54d56.jpg "IMG_8497[1].JPG")