Recent content by Beavervalley802

Progress has been slow around here, or at least slow by the standards of someone who wants to take off in 2 months haha. Anyways, i have almost finished glassing. Tomorrow ill be slipping the body for the second to last time, to do the inside of the roof. After that, back on its feet ill frame...

Should be pretty light, the shell all dried in with windows should be <700lbs, currently its somewhere in the 250 range id estimate.

Yes lots of progress! All my epoxy showed up 4 days after ordered, so thats sweet. I have 1 layer of heavily overlapped 1700 2/3 down each side. I have one layer on the interior floor - it will get 1/4" birch ply over that for my finished floor. Then i'll be flipping the whole thing over to do 2...

Im looking at these windows on ebay, does anyone see a reason why i couldnt install them horizontally (41.5 wide)? It would save me a few hundred bucks...

So i've made some progress, and layed a little glass on the exterior. Im waiting on more epoxy currently. E-bond told me 3-6 weekz on the 15 gallons i ordered...but i recieved a shipped notification today, claiming delivery by friday, fingers crossed! Im going to make a day of the next session...

I've been getting after it! My method is to tape/epoxy the entire structure together, then i'll coat the whole thing. We'll see how much i regret that hahah. And yes, im too cheap to buy longer clamps...

Yeah, they got me on doxycycline. Symptoms cleared up in a few days. Im just glad its not the disease that makes you allergic to red meat!

Well, i got slowed down for a few weeks...lymes disease is no joke! Yesterday i finally laid up my first few pieces! Epoxied and taped. Very happy with how this stuff cuts and sands. In the second picture the box is sitting backwards on the truck frame.

Are you glassing the inside too? My planned order of operations are as follows, tell me if im way off. 1 - cut all sides/floor/overhang pieces 2 - epoxy each side/section together with the tape 3 - epoxy the whole damn thing together, with more tape 4 - finally cover the whole camper in the...

I ordered 40 yards of 50" 1700 biaxial, and 75 yards 1200 biaxial 6" tape to start off. I really have no idea what im doing, other than what ive read here and on some boat building forums. I know i'll figure it out, but its gonna be a learning curve. I tried the ebond epoxy as well, solely for...

We have foam! 16 sheets of 1.5" 4lb pvc foam. Carbon core was awesome, showed up in under 3 weeks. Im still waiting on epoxy and clothe. I ended up going through raka rather than fiberglass supply. I talked to them on the phone, their shipping was faster and cheaper, and overall the guys there...

Thanks for all the info! The overlaps are definitely something to consider. I'm stoked to get started on the actual box! The truck is 1 solid day of finish touches from being a driver again, and then on to fiberglass work.

4lb 1.5" pvc foam on the way, 16 sheets. They said it would take about a week to cut, and a week to ship, so im pretty stoked about that. NOW, i havent ordered any fiberglass yet. Im looking for suggestions on what type of cloth/matt to use. This will be getting layers both inside and out...

Im not sure, he was kind of quiet/mumbling, and as soon as he told me they were technically closed, i wasnt going to ask more questions.

I just got off the phone with someone at carbon core - they answered after hours, then acted annoyed that i called...anyways he told me it would be a week or two out if ordered tomorrow via the website. Im going to call back tomorrow during business hours to confirm.