skinning

Hello! First time poster and builder here. I'm about 90% through building a custom camper using the rigid insulation panel + Poor Man's Fiber Glass method, although I also have some light framing inside made of mostly 2x3's. So, I recently learned that PMF is more water resistant than...

Hey everyone, I'm at the roof raise time. I've gotten some mixed messages from others on what size. One piece of feedback was that a pre drilled hole required 3/16" while a reused hole required a 1/4". I'm going to largely be using reused rivet holes and wet riveting them in. Thing is, the 1/4"...

Hey Skoolie Friends, Been a while! We got married, had a baby and put our project on hold for a bit. Back at it now and back to hitting our knowledge wall. We successfully completed our roof raise, decided to go unconventional with hybrid plywood to metal siding instead of sheet metal so we...

Luckily, I get to park my bus at work and use my 15m breaks, plus my 30m lunch, to get little tasks done! Today, I started pulling all of the window retaining screws and interior paneling screws, to access the four rearmost windows on each side. YES, I said screws! square drive screws, to be...

I'm not quite sure what gauge the interior ceiling sheet metal is, but I was thinking I would just use this to skin some of the windows on the exterior. Would anyone has any reservations or words of caution with doing this? I also have like 500 sheet metal screws to reuse from the inside as...

On overlapping skin panels would a person use an adhesive or a silicon this to go along with the rivets. Thanks