Moho's First Build, Updated 10-25-11

[StandUpGuy]

Are the walls skinned on the opposite side of one and other?

[Moho]

Curious why the walls are skinned already. Don't you runs spurs / wire first ? Sorry- I'm a newbie ....

Not gonna have any wires in the sidewalls, except a couple close to the edges for a couple running lights. Those couple will be close enough to the edge and I can just poke through the wall with a special electrical drill bit I have. 99% of all the wires will be running overhead though the spars. The spars are just gonna butt up against the walls and get glued and screwed. Only skinning both of the side walls. The front, rear and roof sections will be skinned inside only until all of the wiring, etc is done.

[Jpageau]

ah ha! now I see. Nice
Progress man. Lookin' good dude.

[razorback]

nice job man. like the way you think.
Were you ever a member of the "BALDKNOBBERS"?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SmiBPEGa5w&NR=1

Like your avatar.
Larry

[Moho]

Walls have been up for a day or two. Not much build progress as I have been testing things removed from the popup I disassembled for the frame. I wanna make sure all this stuff works and is useable before planning out the space for it. The 12 gallon water tank is leak free and is useable. The faucet works, the stove works, water pump works but isn't check valve style, so it will be replaced.

[Moho]

So the 12v power supply works, however it is very basic. It's basically a 12v transformer with diodes for backfeed prevention.


I'm thinking a couple of options here.

• Leave it as is, as it does work and the transformer windings are good, etc.
• Add a rectifier circuit, bridge it, add necessary caps etc and install toroids for RF to this power supply
• Build a new one from scratch with Toroidial Transformer (I have all the parts excluding the transformer)
• Buy a power supply center

The cheap guy in me says leave it alone, the lazy guy in me says buy a new power center and the electrical engineer in me says build a competely new one as I would enjoy building it or update the current one. Gonna sleep on this one a few days before I decide.

[Jpageau]

yeah... tough call. at some point i'll be making that decision, that's if mine works. You never know being torn from an old popup.

[Breezy13]

That thing looks tough as nails, especially if the coil is good!

[Moho]

Not much going on the past few days in build world. Waiting on parts and such to come in. The biggest setback was finding the cooler I wanted for the galley. I wanted the 70's coleman metal thats 6 inches longer than the normal size and with a good shell. Finally won it on eBay a couple days ago and should get it in this week. All of the galley dimensions are based around this cooler and want to maximize use of space so waiting til it got here to start framing out the galley.



I did decide to repurpose the old power supply, using it for Electrolysis of old metals. I'm going to go with purchasing a new power supply. I got the water tank installed in position. Other than that it's been alot of standing back, looking at it, measuring and deciding how I wanted things in the galley. I've been getting a whole lot of "Will you quit staring at it and do something!" lol. Spent a TON of time in this album http://s134.photobucket.com/albums/q120/ams-texas/Galley%20Gallery/ getting ideas and such. I have the "have-to's" worked out and will see how much room I have for the "want-to's" when a few things come in this week that I ordered.

[campmaster-k]

Great work Moho! and way to go on the Coleman stuff.

[canned o minimum]

MORE Coleman stuff ??? This guy is a NUT ! What is he gonna start collectin next ?

Collect string lites... collect string lites.. collect string lites...

Subliminal...subliminal...subliminal...

[Moho]

Made some progress on the build since I got some of the key components in for galley layout. It's way to early to do a full post, so updates can be found on my blog at http://mohovius.blogspot.com/

[StandUpGuy]

Did you remove the plastic film from the insulation before gluing?

[Shadow Catcher]

Moho
I am big on adaptive reuse but Compass Rose came with a Progressive Dynamics power center so I did not face the question of trying to adapt something. I am however mindful of the care and feeding of deep cycle batteries and there are some over voltage and reverse voltage protections built in the PD devises.

[Moho]

More progress on the galley, Spent alot of time setting up my work area in preperation for winter, since I will no longer have access to outside sawing etc. Got a dust collection system going and trying to clear out a few things to make more room.

I got the cooler slide and utensil drawer built and the upper cabinets finished. Temp hung the doors on clamps to see what it's gonna look like. Taking a little longer than I expected, as it's my first time doing cabinet construction. So glad I really like the shaker style cabinetry as I can;t imagine trying to do more detailed cabinet construction my first time. Also first time I've used my dado even though I've had it for many years, lol. I see alot more woodworking tools in my future as I am really enjoying this work.

Next will be the stove/grill slide out on the left side.