What did you do to your rig today?

[Newcastle George]

until it swells.

Some of us have our conversions finished before that occurs

George

[T1 Terry]

It's all relative.

Just use the floor as the square.

And if you're really serious, one of these to take references and zeroing out a slope..... Great for checking edges that are distance away.

https://www.ebay.com.au/sch/Industrial/ ... protractor

The issue came when trying to build the cupboard for the fridge, the coffee bench with slide out pantry under it all hanging off the bathroom wall, the oven and stove top at 45 deg in the corner between the bathroom wall and left hand bus wall and the kitchen bench along the left hand wall up to the doorway with cupboards under it. The floor rolls off at the edges after the mount points on the chassis and therefore raises up in the centre, so it couldn't be relied on as a addendum plane, a string line dropped from the roof relied on the bus being perfectly level but you need an addendum plane to check for level. Any wall built to hang off a wall that runs east/west to the body line must be perfectly square to outside walls... even though they slope in from bottom to top once they pass above the window line. If any of these are wrong the stove will not sit flat between the 2 bench tops or actually slide into the recess between the cupboards as the oven section is perfectly square. The walls of the coffee bench/slide out pantry could be set out of square because the slide out pantry wouldn't fit So the windows had to come back out so a length of heavy hollow square tube could go east/west across the bus so that could be used as the addendum plan. Once the method of getting the measurement point established it then showed the fridge cupboard was not square to the addendum plan even though it was square to the floor, once that was sorted and each item attached square to the addendum plane it all fitted together like a jigsaw puzzle Oh the joys of building an off set passageway bus, I can see why most builders shy away from such designs, but it does make the inside much bigger for each room as the shower, toilet and vanity/dressing area are combined but walled off from the bedroom, hallway and kitchen. The kitchen increases in size as the fridge is centre mounted and not using up wall space and the added benefit is the lean effect when parked up on the side of the road. With no cupboards along the right hand wall there is no problems with them dumping their contents when the cupboard door is opened.

T1 Terry

[jon_d]

Seemed easy in mine.

[Dot]

G measured up for and I ordered 2 new solar panels for the bus plus G secured the GPS so it didn't unstick from the windscreen when it wants to.

[Mrcoolabah1au]

What size panels solid or flexible how many watts

[Dot]

What size panels solid or flexible how many watts

Size 1480 x 680 x 35mm
Solid.
200w
Weight 15.6kg

[El Gringo]

G secured the GPS so it didn't unstick from the windscreen when it wants to.

OK, how did he achieve that?
What sort of wizardry was used?

Cheers,

[Lance]

I've been told that a smear of Vaseline, rather than a bit of spit, will not dry out and should hold a GPS/Phone mount on the w/screen for a lot longer.
I haven't tried it yet, but will be soon.

[Jon and Kay]

What size panels solid or flexible how many watts

Size 1480 x 680 x 35mm
Solid.
200w
Weight 15.6kg

I thought a 200 watt panel measured 1580 x 808 ???

[jon_d]

Won't the GPS slip down the screen?