The camper has been at Koops’ for a few weeks, and we are definitely at the point where the devil is in the details, and while a lot is getting done, not a lot of it is visible. But, here’s where we are.
The top rail is done, on the front and the back. It hides the solar panels mounted on the roof, and provides a place to mount running lights, which is the solid panel with the holes. On the back (not pictured) it will also be used to mount the wide angle reverse camera.
Our water ports have a door! And, Koops’ got to use their C&C (etching) machine to machine to make this nifty sign on the door.
The entrance door can be latched open! I’m sure this was done in part for the crew working inside the camper, because it was really annoying to be whacked by the door every time you carried something in or out.
The back doors also have latches to hold them open. I don’t think I would ever get anything done in a machine shop because I would always want to be making some new gadget that would be super useful…like this.
The bathroom now has a door, which feels surprisingly substantial. It doesn’t have a handle inside yet, so we were having fun talking about locking each other in there. With the composting toilet.
This is a hole which goes from the electrical cabinet to the roof, inside the rail. Cables from the solar panels will come into the cabinet from the roof, and any cables having to go from the inside out will also fit. It doesn’t look like a big deal, but this took a lot of discussion since we didn’t want it any bigger than it needed to be because we were worried about leaks, but wanted it big enough that we wouldn’t be limited on what could go through it. Deciding to put it in the rail reduced some of the worry about leaks and allowed us to make it a little bigger.