I am a do it yourself kind of chick! I make pretty much anything my home needs. I most enjoy working on my shop! I work in healthcare by day and use building/woodworking as my therapy and stress relief. I really enjoy working with reclaimed pieces. I started a small woodworking business (www.thelwoodbylucy.com) when my spouse was going through chemotherapy. My shop saved me that difficult year!
Hopefully you still monitor these comments. Is there any tricks or issues with cutting in more windows later on after the pmf has been done? I have to build my trailer outside so I am trying to weather proof it right now. As winters coming.
@ashleyderrickkish5004 that is a really good question. I have never cut it after the fact. If I had to, I would probably cut through the PMF with a utility knife first. I just wouldn't want any stringy fibers to get caught in a spinning blade and pull off some of the cloth.
@@thelwood also I have an outside box corner. Do you have any specific tips for trying to glue the canvas to a hard corner like that? I assume the canvas is going to have to overlap is this something that is going to be a concern?
Good video about gluing foam. This is useful for me. Most of us are not willing to go through that much work, even if we need to know. As you know, there are many ways to skin a cat. You can glue foam with hot glues that normally melt foam by priming foam with latex paint, the paint will keep the foam from melting. Depending on the heat of the glue, you need up to 5 coats of latex on the bare foam. This works perfect when using fiberglass resin to glue foam or for fiber glassing large surfaces of foam because the wet fiberglass melts unprimed with latex foam.
Dometic brisk II , it works great. I added a soft start system so I can run off of a regular outlet and a heat strip to take the chill off in the mornings
The very best adhesive is expanding spray foam. It is a wonderful/terrible product that works incredibly but is also extremely messy and will stick to your fingers for days.
An alternative is using latex paint in place of glue and bedsheet in place of canvas. Paint the foam, apply cotton material while wet and repaint cloth. Total soaking of material. Then repaint until material texture disappears… fiberglass screen also works and is very strong. As long as you repaint every 5 years it should last a long time…
Hi Lucy Wonderful videos. I have been thinking of building a teardrop trailer for towing behind my motorcycle. I live in Ireland and we have very strict regulations on sizes (1m wide 2.5m from rear axle to end and 150 kg or 2/3rds of the weight of the towing bike (whichever is lower)). Could you please advise on the dimensions and weight of the foam teardrop? Many thanks in anticipation Graeme
Good job! Greetings from Holland. Please can you tell what type of insulation foam panels you used to build up this nice little caravans? I will appreciate it if you could tell me the name or type.
Good job! Greetings from Holland. Please can you tell what type of insulation foam panels you used to build up this nice little caravans? I will appreciate it if you could tell me the name or type.
hi, love your videos, but I do not see how you made the openings and got the windows in. I looked at several of your videos to see if I could catch that and I didn’t really understand it. How do you get them to stay in place?do you put a rubber edging around it or caulking? Looking forward to seeing more videos.
@aquagamer1212 it is a full mattress, but I have wooden slats that I pull out, so when the doors are closed, I stuff a body pillow in the space between the bed and door. That makes the total width about equal to a queen.
Hello I am based in Maryville, TN. I've been experiencing homelessness after a fallout with a former roommate and have been looking into building something like this to be pulled by a bicycle. If you have any advice or know anyone closer that could help if you can't please let me know. I have a job but rent prices are kinda crazy these days
Why not use Epoxy with microbeads for edges and epoxy for flat bonding will never break apart. always light sand to scuff up to give adhesives something to bite to.
I am trying to ‘design’ my NV 2500 and I like your well thought out layout. That being said are you willing to share some of your measurements? If not could you share the depth of your kitchen sink cabinet and induction cabinet. I am struggle to decide what size bed to put in the rig. I spent this last year in my promaster city micro camper so I’m loving the space especially the height so I’m wondering if i am going overboard with a queen size mattress. Thanks in advance for any information. Happy trails.
The induction cabinet is 19" deep, 34 tall, 29 wide. Sink cabinet is 17 deep, 34.5 tall, 38 wide. I put a full bed but have pull out slats for when the back door is closed and I stuff a body pillow in the space between the bed and the curve of the doors. That gives me a total width of a queen!
At the beginning of the video before you added the canvas to the top you taped some trim down. What is that trim? I did look through comments to see if you already answered this but I didn’t see it.
@latenightwoodworker3283 Thank you!! I had a busy year, I decided to teach high school science (from a career in healthcare). So first year prep was crazy busy! So happy to be back in the shop!!
Just use epoxy. Buy in bulk gallons and also use it to seal the foam with 6oz fiberglass cloth. Some one is sure to say it is to expensive. compare it to the per gallon cost of glue.
A very well organized and equipped shop. You can tell a lot of time was spent planning and laying out this shop. A video I will be putting on slow speed to pick out some ideas. Thanks.
Absolutely first rate layout. Cannot fault anything you’ve done. Just imagine if we were married. We’d starve to death because we’d both be in the workshop all the time. On second thoughts don’t imagine that, I would only slow you down! 😂😂👍
