Back-country tear project

[Cliffmeister2000]

Cliff,

Since the picture above isn't mine, I don't know how he protects the stove. For my use, I have the Camp Chef Oven which has a similar stove top to the coleman (lid & two wind deflectors on each side). I want to use this guy's idea over my camp chef oven/stove unit.

If wind is a really big problem, I guess I'll have to make an aluminum shield or something. For now, I think the lid & sides will help.

Sounds good. You probably don't have the wind problem in the Great Northwest that we have in the desert Southwest anyway.

I would not begin to know how to work with stainless steel...

[greekspeedoman]

Luckily for this project, I don't need to do any welding. It will just need to be bent. I'll toss it in a brake and bend it where I need it and then drill the holes.

Welding is a different story but not much different than regular steel. It just takes different supplies.

[Cliffmeister2000]

Mark, I saw the way this guy built his draweres and stove, and thought there might be some design ideas in here for you!

http://www.adventuretrailers.com/teardrop.html

[greekspeedoman]

Thanks Cliff,

I knew they were making a prototype but I didn't know they had started production. Cool stuff.

[greekspeedoman]

The last 10% takes 90% of the time.
The last 10% takes 90% of the time.
The last 10% takes 90% of the time.
The last 10% takes 90% of the time.
The last 10% takes 90% of the time.

This sentence has been repeating itself in my mind for hours during the past few weeks. Why? Because I am sanding again. Living in the Northwest created a bit of a temperature obstacle for me when it came to finishing the outside of the jPod. It was simply too cold to do it until mid June.

Here is a brief outline of my progress towards finishing the exterior of the jPod.

* Added bolts to the fenders
* Finished skinning the Galley hatch
* 2 coats of epoxy on the Galley hatch
* prepped the cabin doors for epoxy
* sanded forever
* Applied another primer coat to the jPod
* sanded, epoxied, & primed the door jams & galley seal surfaces
* Sanded the primer
* Applied the Brightside Exterior finish

I like the Brightside Marine paint. It gives the jPod quite the finished look. It is nice to have the trailer look good instead of something some homeless person is scraping together in my garage. So far, I am very pleased with this product. My thanks to many people on this forum who wrote some great reviews of many different products.

My goal is to have the exterior weather worthy in a few weeks. It is an ambitious goal but I think it can happen.

I posted a more detailed write up of my recent progress on my website: http://jpodbuild.wordpress.com/posts/

Here are a few pics:

My friend Nathan helped me tip the whole trailer


Here it is drying & smelling amazing (I can see the little pixies!)

[greekspeedoman]

It has been a while since I've updated this thread. I have neglected it and need to update. I will start with my most recent progress and then post a go-between.

The Galley is the last big project for the jPod. I have started it 3 different times only to remove my work and start again. After camping in the jPod for a weekend, we have finally decided what we want from our galley.

A new discovery is a 12V refrigerator which pulls very little on the battery -it uses the same compressor as an Engel refrigerator. In my last redesign, I am making an area for this refrigerator -with the hopes that I’ll be able to afford to put one in someday. Our friend Karl recently purchased one and I await his review of it. Here’s a picture of the Compact EdgeStar Portable Refrigerator.

Here are some photos of my recent progress on the Jpod. I dry fitted the gas struts & they make opening the back hatch so much easier. I look forward to the final install of those -I need to do some finish work first. I also mocked up the stove slide out. I bought & bent a piece of stainless steel sheet metal for the stove to slide out of. The stove will come out of the stainless hood & the stainless hood will come out of the galley hatch.

In essence, it will telescope out of the back of the trailer & make more counter space. I’ve also updated the the Galley page on overlandtrailer.com with more pictures.

[Cliffmeister2000]

Progress! I love it!

We tend to stop working in June, because then it's too hot!

[YuGun]

Good building ı hope for you.
Sincelery,

Note:That oven is very nice. Tiny oven i like it. Ä°s this a special oven manifuctured for RV's (Or caravans)

[greekspeedoman]

The oven is made for campers. I just put it in the trailer. Here's a link to it: http://www.campchef.com/blog/?p=26

[greekspeedoman]

A jeeping friend sent me a picture of a slide out drawer that telescoped out of a jeep trailer. It had two or three levels & was really quite clever. I’ve wanted to do this too and finally was able to purchase the stainless steel to make it for the Camp Chef Outdoor Camp Oven. In the future (again, one of those changes/improvements), I’d like to cut some round holes in the side of the stainless slide-out counter to lighten it up a bit. I’ve never seen something like this in a teardrop before but that doesn’t mean it hasn’t been done. I just haven't looked very hard.

The trade off is that the extra slides use up about 1″ of horizontal space in the galley. However, the slide-out provides an additional 20″ of counter-top. It is really stable & only loses 1/8" over 7 feet of pull out. I compensated for this by angling the slides up a bit so the oven is level when pulled out. If you plan to do the same in your rig, you MUST get heavy duty roller-bearing slides that can take the abuse. Senior Management and I both thought it was worth it. After camping with it once, we’ll never go back!

Watch a video demo on my website: http://www.overlandtrailer.com/2010/06/21/better-than-playground-slides/

Here are a few pics of the recent work & slide-out: