Started the bed today but I doubt I'll finish it coz I used one of the ply sheets for my genny box thinking I would pop round to the wood yard and pick one up any old time :rolleyes:
Materials are thin on the ground now so I pleasured myself by making a dust pan. It weighs about three pounds :eek: but hey, when youve got a welder :).
This evening I am cutting out bits of paper and attempting to create the angles and things for the pull out step. :confused:

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Managed a bit of boxhing this afternoon between other pressing (paying) jobs. :oops:

Two large vintage van jacks have also made an appearance so between finishing the bed and painting its underside I will mostly be inventing some ridiculously complicated retractable supports from their acme screw and miter gears. Why? Coz I’m awesome :p

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Take no notice of the bracing. I have to stand this lot up against the wall to paint it so it’s just there to stop the joints from cracking while I man handle it. ;)
 
Finally managed to get a tin of undercoat so flipped up the bed and glugged grey stuff all over it. Three coats should do the job then it’s onto a quest for half a gallon of Isoflex to finish it off.
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Trying to find a local tin basher that’s open and bashing is also proving inconvenient.
I want to reproduce the five inch sill that bejewels Henry’s hem line so I need four lengths of aluminium bent.
It has been holding the job up to be honest as I can’t fix the floor down until I have fitted the sills.
I need four eight foot pieces bent at 1” x 5” x 2” so it’s not something I can do myself.
 
Yes at the moment people have spare time, but everywhere is closed. I am after some sheet folding over 1 m, also holding me up. Let your fingers do the walking,! Good luck.
 
Last coat of Isoflex this morning. That’s three coats of undercoat and three coats of Isoflex. I dare so much as vapour gets through to that plywood never mind water.

although I have lots of time at the moment I have been inundated with jobs to do for locals. I have fitted a pile of locks to neighbouring lockups and fitted a local garden with decking and a bar. My jobs have been suffering as a result. Almost time to permanently fit the bed on the chassis and create the sill, if I can get hold of one.

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While continuously phoning round to get some ally sheet bent with no luck I finished work last night and had a right good moan about it to one of the engineers. Ang on he said, fetched out the body work supervisor who exclaimed, well we have a ten foot bender in the workshop :eek:
I’m taking a sheet into work and they will cut and bend it for me, no problem.
God luv em. :)
 

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