Well I did all that and the NS wall ! :).
I started with emptying as much back out of Nina as possible, she had filled up with tools and oddments. Then went and got Henry and vacuumed up every bit of dust I could find. Part of this meant clearing out all the metal channels in the floor, one less job when I come to remove them in the near future.
Next, I washed the surface of the OS wall down. Now if this was the metal wall of the van, I would have sanded the metal a little to get the glue to stick better, but as Nina is lined out with a Fibreglass shell, I felt that sanding it would create more of a problem than not, ie it would create lots of very fine fibreglass dust coating everything, so I left that part out, and so far so good.
Once it was all washed down, I masked the two windows using 50mm masking tape and newspaper. This was obviously to stop all the glue overspraying, and it does, you have been warned ;). Actually sometimes when spraying it, it looks a little like Silly String :S.
The next part was quite momentous, I unwrapped the carpet that had been sitting in my front hallway ever since it was delivered, NEARLY A YEAR AGO TO THE DAY ! Wow, how time flies. Slowly the house is emptying of everything that has been stored there all this time :). Past few weeks has seen the solar panel disappear and the carpet, as well as the smaller bits I have been fitting like the EHU socket.
Well, what happened from there on in, might be better illustrated by the timelapse video I recorded using my GoPro :)
Hopefully that showed you how hard (and fast !) I worked :P. Got lots more little bits of carpeting to do, the side door, the roof panel when it goes back on, some more bits of bare wall, and then the wooden window surrounds, the seat boxes etc. Wont have time now until the weekend after this, almost two weeks ! Hope I don't lose the momentum ! :). Its on my mind a lot now, I really want to finish soon and just use it even for one night at Frampton, just to say I did, it gutted me not to have used Scooby before I sold him !
I'll leave you with a few pics, see you in a couple of weeks, if not before if I manage something on an evening beforehand :).
NEWS UPDATE -
Remember Emma ?
Had an email from Ben who bought her whilst I was doing this, he has put me to shame ! In the short time he has had her, just take a look at how far his build has gone ! Best get my skates on ;).
Well done Ben ! Sorry Emma has been playing you up, glad its sorted now though, fingers crossed she behaves from now on. Please do keep in touch :).
Thanks for stopping by ! Come back soon ;)
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