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Postby planovet » Mon Feb 16, 2009 9:58 am

Keep up the good work. Gig 'em! :thumbsup:
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Postby bbarry » Mon Feb 16, 2009 10:22 am

I'm having fun looking through your pics as we are roughly building at the same pace. :thumbsup: Race you to ITG3? :thinking:

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Postby aggie79 » Mon Feb 16, 2009 5:25 pm

bbarry wrote:I'm having fun looking through your pics as we are roughly building at the same pace. :thumbsup: Race you to ITG3? :thinking:

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Brad, I've enjoyed watching your build, too. As far as ITG3, I think that is out of the question for me. If the lack of time doesn't get me, the lack of money will. Maybe ITG4? :roll: I'm actually shooting for around October to be done for LCG IV. If not done, then at least roadworthy, since I've already paid for the campsite.

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Postby aggie79 » Tue Apr 21, 2009 11:49 pm

:? Thomas' return to work got me motivated. I finally made it back out into the garage after almost two months of not working.

Since I love woodworking but don't like finishing wood, I thought I'd try something different on the interior. I'm using 5/16" engineered flooring - the multi-layer wood veneer product not the laminate fiberboard type. It is attached to my plywood "frame" by stapling the tabs and gluing the flooring with polyurethane glue. The edges are glued with Titebond III. The flooring sat in my garage for almost 3 months so the moisture content should be the same plywood frame. Here are some pics:

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After the glue has a chance to set, I'll use my jigsaw to rough cut the flooring edges and cut out the door and then I'll use my router with a template bit to finish the edges to the profile and opening.

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Postby Anthony J Grant » Wed Apr 22, 2009 5:16 am

Love the look of the wood :thumbsup: Ive been considering using it for the countertops, Keep up the good work. :applause:
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Postby bbarry » Wed Apr 22, 2009 6:18 am

Now that's a unique approach! :thumbsup: :thumbsup: How thick will your final wall be?

Congrats on getting going again. You'll get a second wind when you get the walls up and see it starting to come together...I promise!

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Postby aggie79 » Wed Apr 22, 2009 9:01 am

Anthony J Grant wrote:Love the look of the wood :thumbsup: Ive been considering using it for the countertops, Keep up the good work. :applause:


Thanks Tony. We too like the wood look. I'm hoping this may be a viable alternative to using hardwood ply on the interior. I caught the flooring on sale at the blue box, and stacked a 10% coupon that I got from the post office, so the total cost won't be much more than the hardwood ply plus cost of stain and varnish or poly.

bbarry wrote:How thick will your final wall be?

Congrats on getting going again. You'll get a second wind when you get the walls up and see it starting to come together...I promise!

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Thanks for the encouragement Brad! :applause:

Our wall section is 5/16" flooring + 3/4" plywood (actually MDO plywood) + 4mm Baltic Birch Ply + .040 aluminum. To many units of measure and decimals for me, but that would make the wall around 1 3/8" thick if my calcs are about right. (The 3/4" MDO is just "framing." I am using Grant's method of insulated wall construction.)

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Postby planovet » Wed Apr 22, 2009 9:21 am

Glad to see you are back at it! :thumbsup: Will look forward to seeing it in October.
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Postby 2bits » Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:03 am

Man, that is a very inventive idea for the walls! Yeah, after getting back into the sand/stain/polyurethane game this past week. I have further reinforced that I am not a fan of that but that's why they call it work eh! You picked up on an interesting alternative! What are you looking for your headliner? You could do a prefinished plywood like paneling. Glad I could be an inspiration, I guess I better kick in I was slacking for 4 mo haha!
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Postby Juneaudave » Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:11 am

WTG!!! :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Hope that flooring works :worship: ...it sure looks good going in!!!...Juneaudave
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Postby aggie79 » Sat May 30, 2009 8:52 pm

:applause: Finally, after a job change, vacation, honey-dos, etc., I finally got a little more teardrop time.

I finished applying the engineered flooring to the plywood sidewall "frame." This is a picture of the flooring from the back side (street side.)

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I let the flooring run "wild" then trimmed to the profile with a jig saw followed by a router with a template bit.

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Here is one completed interior wall. (Both sidewalls are complete.)

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:thumbsup: October and LCG IV are coming. I've got to get moving along!
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Postby bbarry » Sat May 30, 2009 9:01 pm

Looking good! Keep pluggin' away at it! :applause: :thumbsup: :applause: :thumbsup:

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Postby aggie79 » Sat May 30, 2009 9:02 pm

:worship: Now for a test of my patience. I need to cut the dado for the rear bulkhead without another "character" mark. Template is in place and my heart is pounding.

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Two passes with the router and a pattern bit and we have a dado.

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:thumbsup: Success! Now all I have to do is cut the dado for the front face frame, and it will be time to start my cabinets.

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Postby 2bits » Sat May 30, 2009 10:09 pm

MAN! You do move in big waves! I totally understand that "I don't wanna, but I gotta" feeling. I really felt that when cutting holes in my hatch for the tail lights and other stuff. Just you wait haha :R I think your interior wall idea is very original!
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Postby aggie79 » Sun May 31, 2009 7:45 am

bbarry wrote:Looking good! Keep pluggin' away at it!

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Thanks Brad. I fully understand the concept of teardrop time now.
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