13 June 2021

Campervan build THE FINAL GLUE-UP !!


This is the FINAL glue-up for the campervan internal build. All that's left for manufacture is the final sanding/varnishing of this divider-wall piece, and then upholstery and optional stuff. Upholstery includes padding for the seats and some curtains. Optional stuff is luxury items like additional lighting switches, 2nd battery charging relay etc...

Once the upholstery is done, I'm off to register this with VicRoads as an actual campervan. I don't HAVE to, it can remain registered as a regular vehicle, but this final step will reduce the annual registration somewhat, and add some notoriety to the build...

These images don't reall show what's going on...but they're the final manufacture step, so they're posted here for me to bask in. Everything was made with the last of my materials and offcuts, which included laminating some 3mm ply sheets together to form some usable sheets of 6mm ply for the sliding door. There is a 'barn door' look to the sliding door that divides the main camper from the storage area under the bed, and another whittled down stick from the yard as a handle.



Laminating some leftover and not-so-good sheets of 3mm ply to form a more robust 6mm sheet. Compressing a large flat surface is surprisingly difficult without a vacuum system.

The small drill-vise in the middle of the image is another hard rubbish find. It's actually better quality than the one I bought which is a little above it in the image.

Oh and the small vice mounted to the wooden-board is another hard rubbish find. I did a blog post on the refurb for that one back when I got it.
I found the Bosch toolbox on hard-rubbish. It's in perfect condition with padded insides and a slide-drawer. I keep my cheap Ozito drills, batteries, and charger in there.

The new compressor is absolutely awesome in the workshop. Even if its only job was to blast everything (and your clothes) with air to clean-up after each job, it would pay for itself in awesomeness in no time.