Dusty Mark wrote:We've spent a total of 17 nights in our teardrop so far this season and continue to customize it for our uses. We're traveling to Ely, MN for a week soon and the lows at night will be in the thirties. I built a small slide-out shelf to hold a portable ceramic space heater.
The tray is constructed from 3/8" thick Baltic birch plywood with 1/4" spacers under the drawer slides to give 1/2" screws something to bite into. The outer edges of the tray are 3/4" Baltic birch plywood to hide the drawer slides when stowed. The shelf has a clean look that fits with the rest of the interior build features whether stowed or in use. It only reduces clearance under the bulkhead by 1 1/8" over the width of the shelf.
The drawer slides are mounted sideways. They're not meant for this, but I got the idea from the 500# drawer slides I used in the galley. They're rated for about 1/4 of normal capacity when mounted on their sides. This is sturdy enough for the little weight that we'll place on the shelf.
The lightweight ceramic heater rests on the shelf perfectly. This is a great way to keep the heater off of our bedding and also keep it away from clothing hung on our coat hooks on the walls.
The tray is sized to hold our MacBook Air for watching movies. Yes...we're planning to eventually replace the teardrop with an Airstream Flying Cloud 20. We'll get lots of use out of the teardrop before we go over to the "dark" side of stand-up campers.
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