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Yeah, I’ll be punching a small vent into the floor once I build a compartment for the tanks. Everything I looked up in relation to RV propane had 1/2” lines, so 1/2” I think it will be.
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MCI 102-C3 coach to RV - General/Floorplan
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aczlan said,
JNHEscher said:
Yeah, I’ll be punching a small vent into the floor once I build a compartment for the tanks. Everything I looked up in relation to RV propane had 1/2” lines, so 1/2” I think it will be.
That should be good for 102k BTU 70 feet away from the tanks, or 200k BTU 20' away, so it should be plenty.Yeah, I’ll be punching a small vent into the floor once I build a compartment for the tanks. Everything I looked up in relation to RV propane had 1/2” lines, so 1/2” I think it will be.
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I'm moving back in, kiddies! New phone takes fuzzy pics and I'm sure they get even fuzzier upon uploading. Parts run tomorrow and then I'm on double duty to build a bus and fix a house. Or rebuild a house and fix a bus.
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Spent Tuesday night loading in my tools. Welder, plasma, lathe, power and hand tools. Superb weather that night. Approaching blizzard warnings were all over. We didn't get the worst of it, but damn. Buried several thousand dollars worth of equipment again. Wife and I just spent a couple hours digging most of the snow out of the bus. Roughly 300 gallons worth in liquid form. Continuing to pursue the shop build once roads open back up. Had enough of this.
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Wasn't quick enough. We have one 40/10 tarp that we got for an awning. Took three months to get it from date of order. Thought about using it, but I'm glad I didn't try. Wind hit over 100mph in our area.
bdkw1 said:
But global warming!
Feels cozy, don't it?But global warming!
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Might have mentioned this before. O-ring over PVC into DOM. Grabbed the rings from Whisler. They're a perfect fit to hold the PVC conduits steady within the DOM pass throughs that I'll be welding into the rear bulkhead. Makes an air and water tight seal, too. This way I don't have a draft around the pipes when I close all this up and the pipes won't rattle around in the DOM.
Edit: Adding this info in case I need to pull it up again. The O-rings that fit are 035-N70R at Whisler.
Edit: Adding this info in case I need to pull it up again. The O-rings that fit are 035-N70R at Whisler.
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9 out of 10 welding positions are insanely awkward and test your muscle contraction steadiness. Anyone else relate? I need to find a more compact welding lens so that I can get my head into places it won't fit with a bulky helmet on and something that won't continually fall off when I hang upside down.
I'll be a welding mofo over the next few weeks now that I have the power to do so. Started on this two nights ago and couldn't turn the amperage up enough to get clean deposition. Started tripping the 20 amp GFI breaker. Swapped in a 30 amp and some 10/2 wire. On a roll, now.
I got the DOM lined up surprising straight. Used the self-tapping screw method again to push warped metal flush on the backside. This tube will be cut flush with the welds and be used to create the next four conduit sleeves.
I'll be a welding mofo over the next few weeks now that I have the power to do so. Started on this two nights ago and couldn't turn the amperage up enough to get clean deposition. Started tripping the 20 amp GFI breaker. Swapped in a 30 amp and some 10/2 wire. On a roll, now.
I got the DOM lined up surprising straight. Used the self-tapping screw method again to push warped metal flush on the backside. This tube will be cut flush with the welds and be used to create the next four conduit sleeves.
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A few passes with a dingleberry hone and there be a very nice, clean tooth for paint when the time comes.
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Gapped, tightened and marked the next conduit. Ended up inserting one of the 1/8" washers between the cut coupler halves for a little extra gap in case I ever want to add a threaded adapter and need the room. Painter's tape crosshair in a drafting stencil to mark dead center for the hole saw.
This next DOM sleeve should go a little better. I grabbed a 76mm hole saw when my buddy and I went out to start on this right after we got the bus towed up here. I didn't bother to convert the mm to in. Supposed to be a 2-3/4" hole and 76mm is 3". Oops.
This next DOM sleeve should go a little better. I grabbed a 76mm hole saw when my buddy and I went out to start on this right after we got the bus towed up here. I didn't bother to convert the mm to in. Supposed to be a 2-3/4" hole and 76mm is 3". Oops.
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DE Jeeper said,
I use a leather "helmet" with a 2x4 lens for the tight areas. It has a draw string around the bottom so it doesnt fall off. At the welding store the other day a saw millr had a nice small area mask.
https://store.cyberweld.com/miwe26.h...RoC6JwQAvD_BwE
I use a leather "helmet" with a 2x4 lens for the tight areas. It has a draw string around the bottom so it doesnt fall off. At the welding store the other day a saw millr had a nice small area mask.
https://store.cyberweld.com/miwe26.h...RoC6JwQAvD_BwE
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Mr. Mindless said,
I use that exact mask for tight areas and a LOVE it.
DE Jeeper said:
I use a leather "helmet" with a 2x4 lens for the tight areas. It has a draw string around the bottom so it doesnt fall off. At the welding store the other day a saw millr had a nice small area mask.
https://store.cyberweld.com/miwe26.h...RoC6JwQAvD_BwE
I use a leather "helmet" with a 2x4 lens for the tight areas. It has a draw string around the bottom so it doesnt fall off. At the welding store the other day a saw millr had a nice small area mask.
https://store.cyberweld.com/miwe26.h...RoC6JwQAvD_BwE
I use that exact mask for tight areas and a LOVE it.
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DE Jeeper said:
I use a leather "helmet" with a 2x4 lens for the tight areas. It has a draw string around the bottom so it doesnt fall off. At the welding store the other day a saw millr had a nice small area mask.
https://store.cyberweld.com/miwe26.h...RoC6JwQAvD_BwE
I dig it! Betcha there's a supplier in Springs that has some.I use a leather "helmet" with a 2x4 lens for the tight areas. It has a draw string around the bottom so it doesnt fall off. At the welding store the other day a saw millr had a nice small area mask.
https://store.cyberweld.com/miwe26.h...RoC6JwQAvD_BwE
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Interim post. Always loved nasty weather and the spacious views out here allow for some wicked sky backdrops. We're pretty much in Kansas land. The metropolis along I-25 is just over that hill with the Rockeis behind it.
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Elwenil said:
That much flat land would give me nightmares. I need mountains near me to feel normal.
You're tellin' me. I can't stand flat land or no trees. Mountains would have been great, but we didn't have the two or three million dollars it takes to buy a house up there. It is really cool to see storms coming or passing from about a hundred miles away, though. This was also helpful while in the San Luis Valley. I could look out and see the sand storms brewing on the west side of the valley fifty miles out in time to cover up and lock down.That much flat land would give me nightmares. I need mountains near me to feel normal.
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Plugging away on it throughout today. Had a quick battle with a hole saw pilot that walked. Burned in most of the second sleeve. Hate to grind off some nice welds (there were some ugly one's too), but I ended up grinding the sleeves flush with the bulkhead like I had originally planned just to make this whole process easier. I just finished lining up all five conduits and sacrificing a couple couplers to make spacers. I had revert back to the standard coupler OD spacing because adding the extra 1/8" ran me out of room before the last conduit pressed against the AC conduit union. Some sharpie and stencil action, and then back at it with the hole saw. Might have all these done tonight.
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Almost there. Hole saw ran out of chewing ability. Pretty sure I have another new 2-3/4" Lennox around.
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Found my other hole saw...and the motivation to get at it again tonight. Burning in the fourth sleeve and then finishing the fifth tonight. I suspect some already assume, but I am putting an o-ring on the PVC to sit in each end of the DOM for the best possible alignment between the axis of each before tacking the tubing in. It's all fitting together very nicely. Snug with the o-rings, too.
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Done for tonight. I'll nib off extras and radius the corners tomorrow. You can tell the fourth hole skewed a little. Still fits.
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Dun. Couldn't find my tootsie roll set, so a rasp in the drill made a chamfer. If I remember right, my next step is to tack in the unitstruts.
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bigun said,
Elwenil said:
That much flat land would give me nightmares. I need mountains near me to feel normal.
You get used to it or you don't and head back to the city. That's what happened to lots of folks who headed west.That much flat land would give me nightmares. I need mountains near me to feel normal.
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bigun said:
I've always lived in countryside with steep hills, woods so thick you couldn't walk through them and streams to cross in every direction. City is alright for a little while. We'll enjoy what we have while we have. I'll need some greenery, though.Elwenil said:
That much flat land would give me nightmares. I need mountains near me to feel normal.
You get used to it or you don't and head back to the city. That's what happened to lots of folks who headed west.That much flat land would give me nightmares. I need mountains near me to feel normal.
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I've heard that before...
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All ready to strip paint so that I can put everything back in and start tacking unistruts. Found my respirator, but it needs new cartridges. Should be able to find some tomorrow. I'm going to go ahead and strip the entire inside vertical walls of the center so I don't have to take the conduit assembly apart any more before tacking.
While in town, we're grabbing a couple more sheets of ply and straps to run some more shelving along the other side of the bus. Digging for lost parts and tools in the storage container isn't much fun. That and I need to get it all out to dry stuff. The north end of the container got packed with snow too.
While in town, we're grabbing a couple more sheets of ply and straps to run some more shelving along the other side of the bus. Digging for lost parts and tools in the storage container isn't much fun. That and I need to get it all out to dry stuff. The north end of the container got packed with snow too.
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More grindering. I forgot how juicy your goggles get when the midwestern night fog rolls in.
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Anybody do acid? You see some weird stuff in bottles. Dipped and rinsed the unistruts. Weld ready. I didn't have any suitable container to dip these in that wouldn't cause a mess so we ordered a 12" spaghetti jar. I might get around to tacking a couple in tonight. Might.
