Thread: Cookie Monsters Puma D90 Build

Next job was to carpet the shelf and the drawers with marine carpet. We chose the short pile version, as with previous drawer systems id found that the longer pile carpet tended to pull out a bit and leave strands of carpet around.
Quick set contact adhesive was used to glue the carpet to the timber and the aluminium.


My wife Linda applying the glue:



Marking out for the inside of the drawer:



Drawer lining trial fitment:



Finished product:



First trip away with makeshift dividers in place !:



After a couple of trips away with the single drawer, we are looking to make another couple that will be stacked on top of the existing drawer. We will also put the gulwing door on both sides to access the fridge on the drivers side and the cooking gear on the passenger side. The new drawers will end up the same height as the fridge and I will use mesh to stop items stored on the shelf from ending up on our lap or on top of the fridge.
That's all a little while away though.


Cheers Cookie

All,


Below is the info on the telescopic drawer runners I used. They lock in both the closed and open positions, so are great for this type of application.

1 x
LOCKING SLIDE 1016mm - 227kg Rated
RDF1016XLH - $157.08

Freight Adelaide to Adelaide $6.60
Total $163.68



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45 Jacobsen Crescent
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Below is the sketch of the drawer and the frame that was used to fabricate both parts - apologies for the quality.



Cheers Cookie

Another little mod we wanted to do was to make some decent drink bottle holders, as the factory holder on the front of the cubby box is a bit impractical.
When you have standard 750ml drinks bottles in there, they foul on the gear lever and generally get in the way.
I also wanted to use the space where the factory drink bottle holders are, for a switch panel to house all the auxiliary switches I would be using(more to come on that later).

The new bottle holder fits were the factory sub woofer is installed at the rear of the cubby box.

I had my sheet metal mate knock up the holder and then assembled it up :





The centre divider was riveted in place and the holes drilled for the existing speaker mounting holes (150mm x 150mm):


The internal faces were then trimmed with some left over marine carpet:


The holder fits 2 1.5L SIGG water bottles:


Ill post up a pic of the installed holder and the drawing shortly.

Cheers Cookie

Great idea, my Sigg 1L model has been banished to inside the cubby box, which will invariably leak all thru it one day.

Biggest gripe about those bottles is how any change in air pressure / elevation leads to them leaking all over your lap when you open them. No matter how careful I am, it gets me every time!

Thanks Toxic.


Whilst we made the holder to fit the 1.5L sigg bottles, we do tend to use regular 750ml sports bottles, as they are easier to open whilst driving. We keep the sigg bottles in the back for top ups.


I was considering making another holder that was as wide as the gap between the seats, which would then be able to hold the 2x sigg and 2x 750ml sports bottles - still undecided though.


Drawing for the holder below:





Cheers Cookie

Holder installed using existing speaker mounting holes:

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Cheers Cookie

Next little job was to finish off the switch plate that I had folded up, that sits where the original drinks holders were in the centre console.

The switch positions were marked onto the panel and then stitch drilled around the circumference of the rectangle and the centre cut out with tin snips.


Then the rectangle was filed out to size.


More rectangles filed to size.


All the apatures finished, ready to accept the switch's.


Switch's mounted.


Cable was then run from the battery box to the switch panel and the switch's wired up.


I'll post a pick of the installed panel when I get back from a work trip.
Cheers Cookie