Glad it seems fast from 'the outside'. It feels like I am crawling along at a snail's pace from here!
I try to do something on it every day, but some days all that amounts to is like today: Screwing on a blanking plate to a power wall socket. Total time invested: about 5 minutes.
Now I am working :(
Some more posts on the latest progress are up.
The area under the sink has been filled in with drawers and cupboard doors, so it looks a lot more finished:
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Cupboards-and-drawers
I've got the solar panels fitted:
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Solar-Panels
And most of the water system is fitted and functioning:
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Water-system
One question I get all the time when I try to describe to people what I am building, is - 'How big is the truck?'. Most people have no idea what a Unimog is or what a MAN truck is.
Most of the pictures on the blog are taken in isolation, without a person in the shots, so here is one of me and my Doberman in front of it so you can gauge the scale of things!
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How-big-is-your-truck?
Cheers
David
Hi.
Thats a neat trick to stop the water filters shaking and still unscrew them easily.
Nice setup you have there, I dare not let the Mrs see it.
Cheers
Thanks - I have had to but quite a bit of thought into stopping things vibrating over corrugations. That Stainless flap really damps down the wobbling of the filters to almost nothing.
I am sure some of my designs will be a "fail" so there are bound to be some v2 improvements once we've done a few thousand Kms.
This weekend's efforts involved putting a door on the wardrobe, fitting an overhead cupboard over the sink, and designing a way to hold the crockery so it wouldn't smash over corrugations.
Nothing too exciting about the wardrobe door. It's a door on hinges with a magnetic catch.... Inside is just a hanging bar and some Ikea drawers on some very simple shelves.
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The shelving material is ultra light weight fibreglass waffle board. Each shelf only weighs about 200g. Blog link: Hanging-space-and-drawers
The overhead cupboard was a lot of fun! It needed to have a microwave, an exhaust fan and filter and some shelf space.
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I swear that about half of the design time on this job was trying to work out where to fix the gas struts!! It's not as easy as it first seems. Blog Link: Sink-Stove-Overhead-Cupboard
Lastly, I had a couple of goes at designing a good way to store crockery.
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This took more thought than I initially imagined. My first prototype was very short lived. The trick is to stop the plates and bowls from moving when you're travelling, but still allowing easy access when you need to get a plate out. Blog post: Crockery-drawer
Have you thought about stacking the plates on their side in a deeper draw, each one with its own padded slot? The other question... Do u need to carry breakable plates when there's so many other products on the market...? Still want a truck!! Played with a Merc Zetros 6x6 the other day... :D
Tin plates m8. Get like 10,000 plates and bowls from an oriental emporium. JOB DONE. Lol :P
Otherwise awesome work, this thread makes me want to buy a truck hey. Looks totally awesome.
Now those Zetros trucks are BIG! How did you score a drive in one of them? And did they say how much one cost?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sitec
Cheers
David
Say no to tin plates :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Wicks89
Mrs Spud wants "china" plates, so that's what we're going with....
I've thought about these, but I don't have a drawer deep enough, and my simple design is very compact:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sitec
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