Building The Atma Travelear Teardrop

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Postby DMcCam » Wed Jun 15, 2011 10:32 am

Thank you so much everyone for your kind encouragement and compliments. It sure keeps me motivated.

Hi Doug, I'd really like to have her ready by first of August barring any unforeseen setbacks.

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Postby Rudyjr » Wed Jun 15, 2011 4:26 pm

Amazing eye for detail! This is definitely a treat to follow. Nice to have a partner that likes to sand, how lucky can one guy be! Looks great, Jim
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Postby DMcCam » Thu Jun 16, 2011 10:44 am

Thank you Rudy and boy are you right, I'm a very fortunate guy to have such a great wife.

More building this weekend...

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Postby DMcCam » Mon Jun 20, 2011 11:20 am

Thanks to Johnny D. I picked up our exterior running lights from Kro-Built here in Reno. They're really nice guys and had no problem getting the side lights on special order.

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Here's a close up of the little LED lights.

Great weekend, we got a ton of work done. First we did the last test fit for assembly and then installed most of the cabinets on the drivers side. Then we installed the passenger wall!

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This is the first shot of the tear actually assembled.

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The front cabinet installed with a temporary spar above it.

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With my brothers help we managed to fit my aft cabinets (they were a little off for sure). It's amazing how many tricks of the trade he has at his fingertips. Everything's nice and square now.

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It is unbelievably satisfying to have everything come together so well. Boy do these little trailers get strong fast! I'm mostly using Steve Frederick's shop manual as guide for the build and several members build threads too.

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I cut out the forward and galley cabinet doors then started in on the drawers. This is the galley drawer dadoed and ready to assemble.

Next up are the aft half-round drawers and cabinets faces.

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Postby Rudyjr » Mon Jun 20, 2011 4:16 pm

Wow! Looks great, this thread is the only good thing about Monday's you get to see what progress was made over the weekend! Keep up the good work, Jim
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Postby DMcCam » Mon Jun 27, 2011 12:05 am

Thank you Rudy. We did get more done this weekend, mostly on the cabinetry.

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This is the little drawer for our fresh water jug in the galley. We got this idea from our friends Debbie and Randy's Monstero.

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The drawer will be installed where the drawer slides are below the top drawer in the galley. I finished the drawer and installed it.

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Here's the upper galley drawer open without its face.

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Lisa and I installed and fitted the aft cabin curved drawers.

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Here's how they look open. They now only need to be filed and sanded.

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We got the headliner squared up, spliced and ready to be installed too.

More to come this week.

Cheers,

Dave
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Postby Rudyjr » Mon Jun 27, 2011 1:14 pm

Those curved drawer fronts look sweet! This trailer is really a work of art, can't wait to see the next updates. Jim
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Postby aggie79 » Mon Jun 27, 2011 1:50 pm

Rudyjr wrote:Those curved drawer fronts look sweet! This trailer is really a work of art, can't wait to see the next updates. Jim


+1 on what Rudyjr said. Dave, your work and design are stunning!
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Postby Rudyjr » Mon Jun 27, 2011 3:25 pm

Tom and Dave you guys are both true craftsmen. Both of your trailers are real testaments to quality construction. I can only hope to attempt to build something like this some day. Jim
P.S. Dave nice job matching the grain on the drawer fronts!
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Postby Dusty82 » Mon Jun 27, 2011 3:37 pm

Truly gorgeous! From the moment I saw the way you were doing the wall framing, I knew this was going to be a spectacular build. Can't wait to see this one added to the Hall of Fame!

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Postby DMcCam » Tue Jun 28, 2011 10:37 am

Wow Guys, thank you so much for the fantastic encouragement! It really keeps my spirits high during those 'holy crap' moments.

Speaking of those times, we got the headliner in late last night and I hope that the spars will take care of some nasty gaps I've made at the joints. It was too dark to get good shots so I'll add them as soon as I can.

Thanks again,

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Postby samcrimm » Tue Jun 28, 2011 2:27 pm

Looks really Sweet!!!

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Postby DMcCam » Tue Jun 28, 2011 7:52 pm

Thank you Sam.

I took a few pictures of the newly installed Headliner!!!

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On to milling the spars to size, finishing the upper galley cabinet then on to the tongue box...

Cheers,

Dave
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Postby Rudyjr » Wed Jun 29, 2011 6:12 pm

Looks fantastic Dave, keep up the good work. Jim
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Postby grant whipp » Wed Jun 29, 2011 8:47 pm

Hey, Dave!

Nice talking with you today! Just finished reviewing your latest updates ... fabulous build! Wanna trade doing some cabinets in the Kampster14 for some of those parts we talked about ... :lol: ...?

Keep up the great work, and I'll look forward to checking back on your progress! As always, then ...

CHEERS!

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