Well today I got round to fixing it, I don't know why it took me so long to do it, it was a fairly easy job, and I already had a spare panel of the right size 6mm ply.
This was the old panel, removed from the seat with the hole punched out ...
This would have been on the inside of the seat, just in the front of the chemical toilet compartment. Luckily it didnt punch far enough to damage the toilet !
This is the seat, with the panel removed, ready for the new one !
Sorry about the horrible orangey lighting, as usual I took these photos with my iPhone, its just more convenient than using my DSLR and no chance of getting sawdust inside ! The top is the 'front', the seat is on its 'back' to make it easier to nail the new panel on.
And here it is, nailed on and ready for covering.....again. Excuse the gap on the left there, as I was using my circular saw to cut to size, the waste dropped where I didnt have it supported, and made the saw go off on a tangent. Too much haste and not enough care, lesson learned ! Luckily it wont show when I put the finishing lining on.
Oh, and another mistake, you can't see here, but when I was nailing the two cross members a third and two thirds up the panel here, I just merrily went on and did it without any measuring or pencil marks, and just as merrily missed the battens underneath all the way along ! Cue two pencil marks from side to side and some hasty re-nailing ! ::red face::
Here we see my seat back where it belongs all fixed and waiting to be finished off when the rest of the interior is done.
Yay :). Now to make sure I secure anything that I am transporting in future properly so that it doesn't happen again.
I am thinking about introducing some very low profile wheels into the pull out seat to make the process of pulling it out when the storage is full a bit easier. I have an idea on how to do it, will fill you in if and when it happens.
Another finally today, I put my new dog cage in place across the back of Nina, underneath where the kitchen will eventually be. It fits ok, from back to front is right on the maximum that I allowed, so thats good for the dogs, they have the biggest available space, but I have no room for errors in my storage at the back, so I m hoping my big pop up marquee (portable photography studio) I take to the rescue dog shows I attend, will still fit whre I intend it to, stood up on the passenger side right in the back corner.
This is the beast all set up at a show, its amazing how small it packs down, but even then takes up a fair amount of room, so I need it standing, all 70 plus kilos of it ! It also has two big bags that carry the sidewalls which I am hoping will strap on top of it once its in situ.
This is my cage in place, I can see now its there kind of how things are going to end up, but then I have the plans in my head, sort of :S, so apologies to you all if it just looks like a cage in the back of a van, which of course it is without imagination ;). Talking of imagination, imagine some blue LED downlights in the roof of the cage matching the downlights above each of the blinds in the side windows, adding some more atmospheric lighting when camping on an evening. Obviously turn them off when the dogs go to sleep !
Going right across the top of that will be my Smev Sink/Hob combi built in to a wooden surround and worktop, with cupboards from floor to ceiling either side.
This is my Smev Sink & Hob that Jen bought me for Christmas last year, its still sitting in its box on top of the cupboard, can't wait to be at the stage where I am fitting it ! :) Its the same one that I had in Scooby, and it looked AWESOME, really finished the look of the camper off as well as being the 'kitchen'. Here it is in Scooby just to refresh your memories :)
While I was sitting looking at my cage, I started thinking about the cupboards either side, and looking at the wheel arch boxes the Ambulance conversion people made, I wonder if they need to be so big, if they do, I could at least make them square and more useful for storing things on top, so I guess thats another job, take one off and see if I can squeeze out some more storage space somehow, even if its only a couple of inches.
You can see from the mark on the wall that this is where one of the fold up crew seats was positioned. I need to store the gas bottle on one side, and if I can gain a few inches from the length, then it may be able to be seated on the floor, rather than higher up, which I would prefer.
Well, thats it for today, been a fairly busy one so not an awful lot done, just a lot of ideas going around in my head.
Oh, I did find a Vauxhall Movano on eBay that was being broken for spares, it had all the bonded side windows I wanted, but sadly they had all been sold by the time I saw them, so its still buying new ones a couple at a time until they are all done. Probably a better option anyway, saves all that cleaning up ! ;)
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Gas Cylinder Storage Cage must for kitchen safety.
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