Lots of Progress Since the Last Update

 Things are really moving along this week. Kim has sanded all the epoxy inside the camper nice and flat and smooth. Sore wrists seem to be the price to pay but she has mastered getting a surface nice and flat. She spent Saturday sanding the inside of the trailer by herself while I worked at NAPA filling in for a coworker. 

                                   Kim's dusty legs covered in epoxy dust. 

We bought these light switches from a used camper parts guy on Craigslist a month or so ago. Surprisingly we were not murdered and got a few good deals. Kim painted them a nice retro teal color. I installed them underneath the front cabinets to contol the interior lights. 

Here she is after a ten cent lesson on using the scroll saw making spacers for the side marker lights. She can still wave at me with all her fingers!

I made a cardboard mock up of a box to go on the trailer tongue frame. It curves along the sides to match the contour of the body. 

Once I was happy with the cardboard version, I made this box for the trailer tongue. It's made from cut offs of the plywood from the sides and roof. It will hold the deep cycle battery that will power the inside and outside lights as well as the ceiling fan. 

I installed a panel inside to mount the main disconnect switch and the bus bars that connect all of the brown and white wires that power the front and rear side marker lights. The big red and black wires will be connected to the battery, sending power in to the fuse panel in the front inside cabinet. This will all have to be disconnected and the box removed for more coats of epoxy and to allow us to put the outside layer of plywood on the roof and down the front. I temporarily hooked up a four wire connector and plugged into Nick's truck to test all the lighting. We have power to the turn signals, stop lights and running lights! That was a relief as all the wiring will be inaccessible once the outside plywood is installed. 

After a coat of epoxy. We still need to decide how to hold the cover on. Maybe leather belts like an old trunk or some reproduction draw clasps. 

I cut the holes in the ceiling and temporarily installed the led lights. 

Next was making the cutout for the ceiling fan. I glued the bracing in the roof a few nights before so the glue was nice and dry. You can see some of the wires that run through the roof spars that will be hidden under the top layer of 1/8 inch plywood. The space between the roof spars gets filled with foam insulation in this type of skin and frame construction helping to keep weight down. 

We fit the doors to the openings in the camper sides and mounted the hinges and the door handles. Because we cut the doors out of the side panels as we built it, the cedar strips on the inside of the camper all line up nicely once the finished doors are installed. 

Hopefully this is the last coat of epoxy on the galley walls and the countertop. It looks so much smoother after Kim's sanding the previous coats nice and flat. Next step is to epoxy the ceiling and interior walls for hopefully the final coat and start building the cabinet door frames. We have some cool plans for those. More progress to be made tomorrow!