03 July 2021

Tid bits before Certification evaluation


Just some quick fixes of loose ends and things I wanted tidied up.
  • added non-slip-foot-strip (adhesive coarse sealed sand paper) to the seats to prevent cushion slipping.
  • made another angle bracket... Magnet added for the large sliding barn door under the bed. Cornering was wild without it.
  • added some polycarb' strips to the underside of the fridge, which in turn is screwed down with thumb screws to prevent movement inside the drawer
What's not necessarily obvious in the van build photos to date is that beyond certain items like screws and pop rivets, I've hand made virtually every fastener, gizmo, and hidden doo-dad from scraps of something else. This includes basics like angle brackets.
Powerfull neodymium magnet with really nice countersunk mount hole through the middle. Bracket painted. This sliding door is quite large and heavy, yet the single magnet is almost too powerfull.
There are always hidden screws underneath rubber feet on every gizmo ever built. I'll be attaching polycarb strips to these screw locations.
Always scavenge thumb screws from your dead gizmos and hard rubbish you find on the kerb...
Threaded inserts into the fridge-drawer will make the thumb-screw application a cinch.

Clean, tidy, robust, easily removable without tools.
No more cushion wander while you wiggle your butt around in the seat. Startling difference.