Imagine my surprise when Christmas Morning, while I was still in bed coming round from my yuletide slumber, when a great big box wrapped in colourful puppy christmas paper was dumped on top of me ! Yep, Jen had found another exactly the same all sparkly and new and ready to be fitted ! :). Thank you Jen ! Xx Well, this has made my brain work overtime, planning and designing. I found an app for my ipad that allows you to do such a thing and will export in vector files or jpgs, its called iDesign, go search the name on YouTube and see how it works, its great and really quite powerful for an ipad app. This is something like I want it to look like fitted. Its a partition that divides the front 3/4 of the camper interior from the back quarter which will be used for storage and a secure dog transport cage.
The vent that is already fitted, will be directly above the hob below, so the heat and steam has somewhere to go. Tall cupboards either side, will house the gas and water tanks in the bottom and general storage in the top. Just above the glass lids that are in the up position here, you can see another addition to Ninas ever growing arsenal of items to be fitted, its a microwave ! My friend Sam kindly let me have it when she replaced it for a different coloured one, its only a year old and in excellent condition. I intend to flush fit it in the wall where you see it in the pic. The bars below are the built in dog cage to safely carry rescue dogs when transporting, and of course our own well behaved dogs when camping. It will also be a dog bed overnight, if we can convince them not to sleep on the pull out bed across my legs ! :). Well thats that, what else has happened ? Oh before Christmas I bought two brand new 70ah leisure batteries really cheaply from a guy on ebay, he had a pallet full of them ! My intention is to link them up and have a 140ah cell. My thinking on that is if one fails, the other can act as a backup. I think they will both fit under the drivers seat ok, so will just need to run a supply lead to the rear. What I paid for the two, I saved myself about £80 on a 110ah leisure battery, so a very good result indeed ! Recently, since Christmas, I ordered an electric hook up external socket, meaning i've got to cut a big hole in the body somewhere :S. Also, a split charge relay system to charge the leisure batteries, but ensure that the vehicle battery doesnt get inadvertantly flattened by them. Very simple system, cost me £17 delivered from ebay. Could probably have put the kit together cheaper, but wouldnt have know what to look for with the relay. Far simpler to get the kit already made up for the purpose with a detailed installation sheet to work from. Well thats about it for now, next job is more stripping of the interior, and getting the rear side windows sorted so that I can begin work on the interior :). Thanks for reading, come back soon, promise lots of updates this year ! Especially as the Blogpress app for my ipad is now working again on iOS 5 ;). - Posted using BlogPress from my iPad
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