Started cutting wood for all these bits.
Author: Aaron Bockelie
Master bedroom door
Master bedroom door. Keeps the peanut gallery out. Its a nice space saver, and still locks. Little felt pads and some angle channel helps keep the sound from traveling. It feels like an elevator door. Those are just drawer hinges doubled up. The clear plastic panel above lets natural light in from the roof hatch.
About making those luggage doors flat again
Someone asked how you make those luggage doors with the big folds in the flat-ish. You know the ones – the bus driver thought they could make it over that hump in the road and high centered the vehicle instead. So I’m assuming you don’t have completely destroyed doors, like no tears in the sheet […]
So you said you wanted to paint a bus?
Well, this was a lot of work. Lots of pictures below. Wire wheel strip all the failing paint from the new panels (didn’t scuff them, cheap alklyd paint applied under humid damp conditions) Then sand everything else, sand around all the rivets.Scotch brite around the rivet dimples. Walnut blast remaining paint from rivet dimples. There […]
Primer materials
I’m using Omni MP243 aka spray mud as the primer. Its specified as a DTM primer if its clean steel. A light sanding afterward yields a completely adequate subsurface for topcoat. I thought I’d hate working with rivets and crappy surfaces that will never get fixed (usually I’m block sanding everything) but I have embraced […]
Exterior Paint
Right now I’ve switched gears and I’m preping the exterior for real paint. The weather here should be good for another month. The crappy temporary primer peels off the sheet metal I put up like a fruit roll up. I’m pretty excited to get this done. Lots of sanding and seam sealing. I’ll probably tackle […]
Countertop Progress
Just a work progress photo. Countertops close to done – working with cesarstone (quartz epoxy) material is interesting. It is pretty forgiving stuff. Lots of drawers and things going in. Plumbing and wiring next.
Cesarstone Countertops
I got these countertops from Second Use in Seattle. Someone else’s kitchen remodel mortgage payment becomes my eventual freedom from a mortgage.
Water tank system thoughts
I plan on using dual shur flo pressure demand pumps, one for each fresh water tank, mounted at the lowest water level possible. (Down in the bay) Its about 10 feet of head pressure, which is easily accommodated by one of those pumps for a shower head. So, yeah gravity primed. I’ll set up a […]