10222012

Worked more on the bus, still putting up walls. Put in the floor for the refrigerator, started insulating the walls of the refrigerator enclosure. Also put aluminum tape around the bus heater enclosure.

10212012

Took off today to work on the bus. The plan is to get it ready for a trip to Tennessee, for Christmas.

My main objective now is to get it livable and able to travel. It's at the point where I can start closing up walls and securing cabinets to floors. Water, plumbing, and electrical is secondary, but still important. I just want to be sure it is livable and able to make the trip there and back. and

Update 10162012

Few more pics of black/gray tanks. Will have to take them back down. I want to paint the inside of the wood with some waterproofing paint, and add some more support. Will then plumb and then water test them.

Update 10152012

Worked on bus heater vent. Built support for fridge, and under fridge drawer. Worked on hanging black and Gray water tanks. Pain in the booty.

I know, I know its been awhile.

Let me just say, what has been taking so long to post (besides life) is the electrical. I don't want to do all this work to have it burn up or to hurt or kill someone. So that being said, here is whats going on.

Plumbing. The biggest pain in the butt, has to be, how to vent all drains.

Update 030712

Been a while. I have been extra careful about the electrical on this bus. Anything else I can figure out and fix mistakes and or live with. But with the electrical I wanted to be sure I got it right. Best for life and limb.

I have made a friend with a gentleman that is building a bus to transport Disabled Veterans. He has helped me out with the electrical, even rewiring the mess the other guy made with the wiring. I am going to write up a blog post with a lot of his info in it, so look for that.

This is the work that has been done. What I need to do now is get a 50v extension and tie up some loose ends and my electrical should be done to the point I can start on my plumbing. Slow going but well worth doing it right.

Added #12 black wire. I had #12 green wire and thought I only needed one wire. So after much deliberation, research, and reading responses to a question I posted on Skoolie.net. I decided to run the black wire with my green wire to connect my ground to the ground post.

I am going to use the black as the HOT wire and the green as the GROUND wire. If I had to do it over again I would have used black and white wire so as not to confuse myself later or anyone else that may have to work on the 12v wiring.

 I also cleaned up a bit by zip tying the wires together. 

 When doing research on the 12v wiring I found that I needed to put in wire protectors so I did not put a nail through my wires or my water lines. Good thing I saw that. The silver metal plates you see on the wood in the first two pics, are the wire protectors. They are med gauge metal that will not let me drive a nail into the wire. 

 See the little love note my wife put in my bus?

Hopefully I will be able to work on it some more tomorrow evening.

 

Did more electrical work. I have moved bus to Huffman where I can work on it. Deal with the guy that was going to trade me a generator and wiring work for a boat, did not work out. So DDH sat up for about three months getting no where. I can now work on it a little more.