Sunday Funday- The walls are on

 Yesterday was a big day as we also got the fiberglass cloth and a coat of epoxy on the sides. Kim mixed epoxy and being the rule follower, she held to a strict two minutes of mixing keeping me supplied with epoxy as I spread it into the fiberglass cloth, saturating it and adhering it to the plywood. The beautiful grain shows through once the cloth becomes nearly invisible through the epoxy. This is the same process our teardrops previous owner used to build cedar strip canoes and kayaks. Although we're learning it seems like we're getting the results that we are expecting. I can't wait to show it to Larry. 

Kim had a golf tournament today so it was my day solo to try not to derail the project. She has alot of faith in me, that one!🤣

I convinced Nick to help me lift sides into place on the floor after a nice thick bead of PL Premium 8X adhesive was spread into the joint where the wall attaches to the floor. We clamped it all in place with my new Harbor Freight bar clamps and the clamping blocks I made from some scraps of wood and plywood. 

Once we were satisfied that we had the walls square to the floor (they measured 89.9 degrees on Nick's digital angle finder- close enough for this hack craftsman🤣) I set up the sawhorses and a couple planks to hold the doors so I could do the fiberglass and epoxy resin treatment to the doors. By the second round of pouring and measuring resin and hardener, I was wishing Kim was back from golf! ⛳

After a bit the doors were looking good and the golfer came over to see if we still had a project or if I succeeded in burning down the garage or some such foolishness. She approved of the efforts and we both layed down in the camper to get an idea of how we were going to do the back wall and the galley. This thing is really small!

Knowing that we are going to be using the Yeti cooler that Laura and Kerry gave me, we went back to my apartment and got the cooler to set in the galley area to start planning partitions and counter height. Some fancy work with the tape measure and some smart application of masking tape gave us a plan and off we went to Lowes to get plywood and some pine boards. The nice manager of the wood department of Lowes gave us 50% off a damaged piece of plywood that we could use for part of the door stop trim. We saved a whopping $7 which we applied to ice cream at Peppys.

It pays to ask.