Recent content by Jmanscotch

I considered that option, but the wood side panels are behind the bed mounts, so I would’ve had to cut out just the sections that are exposed. The side panels are also glued to the furring strips too. Ultimately, between the time I would spend removing all that wood, cleaning up the furring...

Lastly, I came back in and painted the walls. Since we had thought the bright white FRP was a little sterile looking, we opted to go for a slight off white, Alabaster. Pretty happy with how it turned out, all things considered. It’s far from perfect, but definitely loads better than the FRP...

Well, after a bit of a break and a few talks with the wifey, I decided eating the cost of the FRP and ripping it off would make us happier in the end, so I dove in and did one of the most tedious jobs on the trailer yet…scrapping and sanding all of the construction adhesive off. A flat blade on...

Mostly true. From my experience, they don’t mark them up in price for the “new” shipped to market, not initially. I’ve bought two (and this might be the third) vehicles from Carmax in the last 8 years and each time I’ve had them shipped for free (and the wife too, even when they said it’d be...

Indeed. I’m in central Colorado (not rust belt thankfully) and the Tundra is a one owner, bought and owned only in Arizona. Sun-fading/damage is more of the concern on it.

I had originally planned to use this: I still think a full coverage adhesive like this would net you a better result. The adhesive caulking seems like it will inherently leave some waviness to the panels via unavoidable high and low spots. I ultimately chose not to use it as I wasn’t...

Not sure why I didn’t think to share that detail, thanks for asking. Loctite PL Premium is what I used first, that failed. Though to be clear, I suspect it might’ve been a cold weather related failure. I didn’t really care for how thick and unspreadable it was before the failure though (even...

Yeah, I’m sure there is a more ideal adhesive out there that the RV industry uses that’d work well, but it’s likely too expensive for the DIY route, especially when the screws and screw caps are a solid $10 fix. Wish I had committed to this route earlier as the panels without an adhesive...

Found we had some white trim paint sitting around from years ago and went ahead and painted a bit of the trim inside the trailer. Then tidied up the solar wiring a bit with my favorite wire loom material. I don’t love my routing and roof mounts (3M tape mounted holders with zip ties) so migh...

Welp, checking in on the trailer this weekend and the adhesive has failed to hold. It hasn’t completely failed but it has failed on maybe 50% of the total surface area. There’s adhesive properly stuck to the FRP and stuck to the wood, but the adhesive didn’t retain adhesion with itself and...

I finally cut out the clearance for the cooler to open. Less than ideal, but it works now and was easier and quicker than any alternative route. Then started in on hanging up the FRP paneling. I ended up using Loctite PL Premium 3X adhesive caulking and generally, I wouldn’t recommend it...

Aimed to get over a hump this weekend by putting the paneling up inside, but snow and a sick daughter kept that from happening..soon though. Instead, I worked on a few smaller projects during her nap times. As the snow started to fall, I started fitting the solar panel mounts. I bought two...

Built, installed and caulked the under bed storage dividers. The center storage area is for storing gear (camp chairs, propane fire pit, table, etc) so it’ll be accessed from the rear galley area. It needed to be 6’ deep to fit the gear, so the cabin side of the center storage area is shallow…a...

Knocked out a few more things, on a mission to get the bulk of the interior in. Made some bedside shelves that’ll house a couple cup holders and a power plug. Then moved onto the v-nose upper cabinet and finishing the lower bench. Build a basic frame and added mounting points to the wall...

Had a few short hours today and worked on some small projects, not worth an update really but wanted to share as one of the projects I finished up ended up revealing something I screwed up and really just felt like sharing that. Installed the galley side lights and caulked the headboard...