Building The Atma Travelear Teardrop

[Phooey]

I thought it was just me so I got another glass of wine and tried to read it again.

[nevadatear]

Ok, Caryn et al. Dave, you want those hundreds of trailers to see your beauty at the Dam dontcha? Or something like that.

[KCStudly]

Ok, Caryn et al. Dave, you want those hundreds of trailers to see your beauty at the Dam dontcha? Or something like that.

Good sport.

Dave, I think the message here is that we are all having a good time watching your progress and sharing in the excitement of seeing you get close to camping in her.

[DMcCam]

Thanks for the excellent laugh there Debbie!!! Thank you all for your continued support of our build, today we finally had some teardrop time!!! It's all fit and finish now, so buckle in and hang on for the ride to the Dam gathering folks! Updates every day or so I hope.

All the Best,

Dave

[_Ryan_]

Thanks for the excellent laugh there Debbie!!! Thank you all for your continued support of our build, today we finally had some teardrop time!!! It's all fit and finish now, so buckle in and hang on for the ride to the Dam gathering folks! Updates every day or so I hope.

All the Best,

Dave

Great news! I for one will be waiting anxiously for updates! Don't forget the pictures Dave!

[nevadatear]

Yeah hurrah! We will have one of charlie/gutairphotog home brews to celebrate!

[DMcCam]

Hi Everyone, We got a little more done this Sunday (it was finally warm enough). Put the AT up on stands and got to work on the molding.


Here a shot of the passenger's side wall bottom edge trim just attached.


Same from the back. Still needs clean-up but it's done.

We did fit the wall cap molding for the galley outer walls but had to wait for next time out to install them. The driver's side lower edge molding has to be on first.

More to come,

Dave

[Cummins01]

I love this project! I cannot wait to see it all finished, beautiful work!

[jeporter25]

Truly stunning work Dave.

[DMcCam]

I love this project! I cannot wait to see it all finished, beautiful work!

Truly stunning work Dave.

Thank you both so very much!

Happy Wednesday Everyone! We got the last of the edge molding on the AT today! First we installed the lower passenger side wall edge molding then fitted the galley wall edge to it. The hatch needed to have its hinge sealed and the zinc screws changed out to stainless. Now it's all drying up then I'll clean up around the trim.


Here a shot of the driver's side.


Looking into the galley.


Here's the passenger side.

More to come,

Dave

[S. Heisley]

I can hardly wait to see it in person!

[DMcCam]

Hi Everyone, and thank you so much Sharron!

It was a good weekends work with quite a few things accomplished. Finally got the hatch trimmed out and it seems to be a pretty good fit. Please excuse the squeeze out butyl tape, silicon caulking and smudges; I'm working fast so she'll get cleaned up later. For all those brave souls who are finishing with aluminum a few words of encouragement; patience will serve you well. Even though Grant's moldings are dead soft, it still takes a lot of work to make these tight bends. The stuff buckles and you'll need to hammer it out again and again with those dead-blow hammers. Eventually you'll get it if you take your time and work through it.


The driver's side trim with the hatch closed.


Hatch closed.


Here's the hatch open...yep, the struts are installed but not enough to keep it up. They are 120 pounders too. I'm guessing 130-140 lb ones should do the trick.




A couple of shots of the edge trim with the hatch open.


I installed the galley lights too.


Here's the passenger side door with the rain cap over the window and the drip gutter installed!


Same for the driver's side, wahoo!


I wanted to see how the drip gutter looked with the driver's door open; looks good yet needs to be tweaked a bit.

Thanks for following.

More to come,

Dave

[Lonnie Mac]

I still say OMG every time I see this build!

[DMcCam]

I still say OMG every time I see this build!

Thank you very much Lonnie Sir!

All the Best,

Dave

[down under tech]

It sure looks GOOD Dave. See you at the "Dam".