Doing the hurricane recovery thing right now so progress is slow, but the 3/8 street elbow arrived today, so I finished assembling the Aquatainer lid / water system pickup rig. Still trying to giure out where the spool of 3/8 tubing walked off to though...
Figured out the issue with my HF Tailgator generator, and after running both the Tailgator, and the Sprotsman 1000 inverter, the difference in fuel usage, the 2 stroke oil and on and on, I am retiring the tailgator to serve only as an emergency at home generator. I don't need the noise camping. That sportsman literally can't be heard more than about 25 feet away through bushes and such.
Waiting for the missing hardware pieces from the Flame King refill set to come in. Their support people got me set up nice and quick... AS soon as it arrives and I finish assembly, I will pre-weigh, or get tare weight and mark the tanks, and fill them. There are a total of 5 so I have lots of filling to do...
Once the filling is done. I will likely take the BBQ tank to the local propane shop and get it topped up. I want to be ready for the next storm.
Ripped cheap 2x4s into 2s2s. Planning on making a perimeter frame. Using Mortise and tenon joints for strength. The plan is the most basic box outline for the frame, create verticals for the door opening, reinforcements for the AC support, awning support etc... And then glue the basic structure up with an unreasonable amount of wood clamps. Once the basic wooden structure is complete, hit it with gobs of waterproofer, And then, we foam.
There is no small part of me that still wants to build this thing to extend all the way over the tailgate using the tailgate as an added 2' of floor space, but designing that has been a bit wonkier than I thought.
Again, using cheap 2x4s and a ripping jig to create 2x2s to keep weight and costs down, so as long as any massive failures happen in the stick framing stage, I am only out the cost of maybe 10 2x4s at most. More likely 6.
To temporarily close up a hurricane caused hole in my house where siding once was, I sourced up an 8x10 silver tarp. Once no longer needed to keep rain out of the attic, I intend to apply that to the awning for the camper. Sadly the intended 3/4 EMT conduit that I was saving in the attic did not survive the hurricane. So time to get some fresh stuff. Oh well.
Anyway, back to the water tank rig. I am planning on moving the pickup between 4 7 gallon AquaTainers as they would be easier to fill and certainly would need a quick connect method of attachment. So I came up with this.
Under the cap is a 3/4 MPT x 3/8" barb nylon fitting, on top is the 3/4 NPT x 3/8 NPT reducer, a 3/8 street elbow, and a 3/8" quick connect, then 3/8 quick connect to a 3/8 NPT x 3/8 barb fitting.
Height could likely be further reduced by using a 3/4 NPT male x 3/8 NPT male elbox, but I used what I could find...