72 IH + ‘85 Alaskan = Questionable Judgment...

Nailhead

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A few days after I got back I got a nice surprise:

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Black Friday isn’t all, well— black.


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Nailhead

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A few days later, I decided to test my new solar suitcase.

First, I removed the valve core from my trailer spare and then refilled it with my compressor (the highest-amp load I could come up with):

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I did this two or three times. The result:

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After maybe an hour on the panel:

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I like this thing, and it wasn’t very sunny out.


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Nailhead

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Next, it was time for a permanent fix for those broken-off corner angle rests.

A few essential components from McMaster:

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Removal of the range for access to the DS mounting point (with surprise bonus!):

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A little cutting, drilling, and tapping later, and we have rests for the upper camper section:

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Nailhead

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This is the skid plate/support for the dumpster-find 19-gallon F350 auxiliary tank, which I coated with a POR-15-type product from KBS:

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I was incredibly lucky to find this tank, because it fits the space on the rear of the truck, it will allow a usable range, and it was free. It, and its ancillaries, are worth their weight to me.

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The end result on the tank support, air tank, spare carrier, and other parts.
 

Nailhead

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And then a really big day arrived:

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We got to this point and realized somewhere our height measurements weren’t right, and we needed 3/4” at the top of the boxes and below the cabover. Harry suggested a sheet of green-treat 3/4 plywood as a spacer, noting a couple fringe benefits: 1. Better floor insulation. 2. Increased weather protection for the bottom of the camper. Since such a product isn’t economical to purchase in Wheatland, WY, the mating-up of camper & truck was put on hold for a couple of weeks.
 

Nailhead

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Back at home, I decided to liberate the cabling I wanted to use from battery to inverter/charger from its covering:

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This was a castoff from my oilfield days, and it was a PITA to extract that cable, but a couple beers later, I had ‘er licked:

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It’s 2/0, IIRC.
 

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