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Mounting Lagun Table to back of Flatline Van Co. 41" Kitchen Galley (3/4" Solid Bamboo)
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May 2, 2025
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all right hey guys welcome back to the live stream it's a late night stream tonight but I wanted to capture something I'm working on because uh once
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I finish it tonight I probably won't be making a video going back to it and uh it's a part of the build that's really
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important um it took a lot of time so I thought you guys would really be interested in getting some footage of it
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before uh it gets taken apart disassembled and put back together um later tonight so this is what I'm
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talking about this is a solid piece of 3/4 inch
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bamboo and it is the back side of the flat Lane
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vanco 41in kitchen Galley now this um the reason that this is uh important
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is there's a contour right here and man it took forever to get perfect the other
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thing is I wanted to make sure that this I wanted to have this be a seamless transition from this bottom piece where
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it uh interacts with the ABC rig uh step trim and then how it comes over
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jogs that edge and then comes all the way over here and there's a couple different pieces uh the electrical the
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Lagoon uh the Lagoon is what I'm going to talk about most but what's nice is you can purchase a
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3/4 inch sheet of solid bamboo um I got this from uh Cali bamboo and I think
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there's only about two places you can get this shipped so uh it's hard to get
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it was expensive but I'm telling you when this when I stain this tonight or do the clear coat on it uh that's why I
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wanted to show you this video is I wanted to disassemble it on video and then once I finish it um you guys can
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see the final product uh when it dries overnight but yeah we're going to do a matte uh clear coat on this and just
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going we're going to do a I think it's a polycrylic is what we're using for it
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anyway that is for this uh we'll sand it up clean it up but I'm going to start going through the uh each piece piece
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just to give you an idea of what we're doing here so the main function of this piece is obviously to hide this uh but
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this is actually the main feature so the main feature is the Lagoon table so a
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lot of Vans have a lagoon table mount on the outside of the van but I really
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wanted to stylistically make this just look super clean very polished so I've
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got a 3/4 inch uh piece right here that's cut to the exact specs of a
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standard Lagoon Mount so you can buy extra one of these if you don't have it
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this is kind of my sacrificial Lagoon Mount this is the Amazon version that I bought this is the real version from
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Lagoon and this is very gritty and kind of rough this is super nice and smooth
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so we're going to be using this one in the end but I use this to open up the holes and do all that stuff but we got
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the 3/4 in and then this piece that we cut off here I used a piece of it to bring this
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Lagoon table out more and the reason I did that is you have an arm this
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articulating arm and if I had just keping it up to the side this arm would
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not be able to rotate so what I wanted to do was I wanted to make sure that this arm could
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rotate and this part back here is not going to rub now obviously it can't go all the way
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but um the goal for this whole setup is so that um I've only got this
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held in by two bolts I'm going to try to be kind of careful with it but for example you have your Lagoon Mount and
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you can have multiple of these in the van if you wanted to uh but what's nice is a company called Panther RV sells a
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prefinished bamboo top with a lagoon Mount already mounted to it so
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uh yeah it's just ready to go now if you want to a lot of people what they do is they'll take this and then they'll offset it uh by one set of screws so if
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you can imagine this width just coming down here to this very edge putting in
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two more screws and that gets you to put it in these interesting orientations such as the front and uh driver and
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passenger seat but this is what I wanted to show you guys today so this was my plan pretty happy about
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it but you got this really cool look here because you've got um not only do
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you have the bamboo back here but you've got this really just awesome transition
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between like a two pieces of clean bamboo
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um give me one second I got to make sure that I'm not scratching my uh I've got tons of tape
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on here but anyway there we go make sure it's not
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scratching um but I wanted to have this just super clean look for working with
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the bamboo and then what we're going to do is I've opened these holes in the back
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side a little bit more and so once everything gets locked
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down you have somewhat of ability to adjust the levelness so it doesn't look
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kind of awkward so I'm going to do that before the show this weekend
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um but yeah I just think this look is really cool not only that we can still
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pull the table out it can go all the way over here or it can come in and this is
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how I'm going to have it for the show uh but what I wanted to show you on the
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bottom is this really cool outlet from Amazon it's a
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uh it's got a spring actuated door on it and it just uh looks really cool
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so I'm just going to pick up an induction
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stove and so the plan here is you take your induction
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stove and I know this is nothing new a lot of people like to cook outside all that good stuff
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but what's nice is um so you got your cook toop up here kind of doing your
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thing and this can be locked in place now I don't have I'm going to be
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modifying this so I'm going to talk about this modification so I'm actually going to be cutting this up on a miter saw and I'm going to show you what I'm
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going to do but that'll be in tomorrow's video so yeah just act like this isn't
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it's it's all perfect um so down here is this box and you can't see it from that
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angle but actually let me see if I can move this camera a little bit
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forward let me change the camera
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angle okay so you kind of saw the top now you're seeing the another perspective of
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this so this is the box and I'm talking about
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um where's the company I think I put the box over
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here all right I have to put this on the comments later I'm not sure where I put the cardboard box it was here somewhere
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anyway this thing is awesome so you have a electrical box that you can feels
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pretty standard it's got Knockouts all over the place it's got adjustable uh so you can have it outside
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of a panel inset of a panel and then it has this uh housing
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here and it's solid metal um it's not a painted plastic or anything I got off
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Amazon it's got two outlets uh they're resistant and they have class 2 USB
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ports which are the 5 volt 4.8
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amps uh earlier today we talked about doing the electrical so this is an continuation of that electrical but
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anyway this box goes in here and then there's this button on it and then when
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you press the button the outlet opens up and it's really cool um what's nice
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is they claim it's water resistant because it has this gasket around this
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and then it has this gasket around the face material that you're going to use
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so technically it's water resistant we all know that it's possible to get water
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in here you you kind of can't really take uh their word for that
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cuz I know that if it's raining outside it's probably going to get in here the
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reason I got it is it's a if you have this on the outside of your van and it starts to rain this will protect you to
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a point so if it just starts to rain the reason I wanted to have this was not only is it
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um uh this is like a stainless finish or brushed finish and in clear
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coated but the rain will kind of come over this and then you have your you can
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open up your outlet
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here and I think I got got this one in here wedged there we go so we open this
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one up and it actually locks in place which is cool so you have to press the button again to close
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it so it's kind of locked into place but what's I just think is really cool is
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you can plug your induction stove in right there and everything's kind of you know
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everything's just nicely just nicly hidden out of the way and um so I like
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the way it looks I don't like things look clunky but again we're going to uh when we finished taking this all apart
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tonight um you're going to watch me take it apart and then I'm going to end the video but you can see we can actually
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have enough adjustability to where I can level this table you know however we want to do
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it but not only can you do your induction stove there's another Outlet over here that you could use for some
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light duty Electrical uh just to give you a heads up if you have a dual burner
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induction there's only there's always a maximum amount of wattage that you can pull from an induction stove typically
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it's around 1,800 watts and the reason is 1800 watts is pretty much what the
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outlet can um deliver so if we just did
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some quick math here you can take uh let's take 1,800 Watts for the max of
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our induction and let's divide it by 15 amps so the circuit's going to break at
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15 amps so technically you don't have a usable 15 amps but let's just say we'll
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write at 15 amps right at that edge so you do 1800 watts divided by amps and you can see if you have 120
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volts power so a clean 120 you have a 15 amp
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service you can get your maximum 1,800 Watts for that induction co uh stove to
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to cook now kind of a misnomer is if you
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have a dual burner 1800 watt induction you're not going to get a full 18 on two
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it's just mathematically impossible so that 1800 watts is going to be divided
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somehow so maybe one burner might be 800 watts one might be a th000 um so one's
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not going to be as hot as the other so you can use a dual burner on here maybe you wanted to have something just
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keeping some food warm while you're cooking the other piece
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and um so just kind of think about that so if you're not using the max wattage
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you could use uh the other plug to I don't know maybe have like a little fan
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going or something while you're cooking and then maybe one of these could charge your phone uh but just know
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that the outlet is uh you know the math is the math it it you can only get so
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much power out of this one Outlet regardless if it has two plugs
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um now I guess you could have technically wired in 20 amp service outlets in your van but uh that's kind
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of thinking a bunch of steps ahead I don't think many people are going to do
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that um but yeah getting back to this my phone just stopped hold on a
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second here we go this is pretty much the setup so this
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will all be cleaned up tonight we're going to go ahead do a mat finish on everything so I'm going to go ahead and take start
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the process of taking this apart I'll explain a couple things and that'll be pretty much the stream um if any of you
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guys are watching you have some questions tonight uh I'll definitely answer them the best
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I can so let's do a little wide angle shot here and
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then we're going to call it a
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night
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okay so we need to go back a little bit
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more
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all right so we go down here we take our plug off and then what you would do is just press the button shut the
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door take our induction off
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don't forget guys we're going to peace love and vans uh we're hitting the road
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Thursday the show will be Friday Saturday Sunday and then we'll head head back
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Monday so it's going to be a long drive to get down there it's it's nine hours from the
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shop and actually I'm just going to take this
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all the way off so we actually have another Mount right here on the inside of the
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van and while I'm at it we're going to take this uh there's St shess threads in
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here so if you overtighten this is that's what's H that's what happened to this one you'll Gall the threads and
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then this thing will the plastic uh indexer will break so I bought uh
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another handle like this you can actually get these handles off Amazon if you break them I'll show you what one looks
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[Applause] like they're really cheap it's like four
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bucks for for two of
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them this actually just came in this afternoon which is perfect
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timing now obviously these are not going to be the same as the Lagoon but um you
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can kind of see it's a it's got the same thing where the handle will index and
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lock it's an M8 thread which is pretty close to the Lagoon thread uh now this one is much smaller
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but I was in a pinch this is two-day delivery so I I kind of like it though it's more low profile so what's going to
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happen here you guys can see the tape is this part right here where the tape is this is going to get chopped
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off because if you can tell if you wanted this to be in a lower orientation
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this is its lowest height so we're going to go and chop this off so that this can actually come down
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lower so you can have a lower cooking surface something more comfortable it doesn't have to be Skyhigh up here so
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right there um the other reason we have to do this is because uh within here there's a a
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channel cut out and that channel that's cut out that's what's allowing this to squeeze
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and grip so what we're going to do is we already marked a hole so we're going to have this
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here and then the the friction spot will be right there so where my thumb is is
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the friction spot so we you can have it here or all the way as low as about
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right there so we can lower this about two two Ines lower than what was
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possible um yeah so we'll do that tomorrow um so here is the assembly itself we're
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going to go inside uh it's just thumb tightened with some
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screws so these screws are 516 -8 for the thread
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pitch the 3 in long because we're going through
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the uh flatl van kitchen Galley a 3/4 in piece
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of um bamboo and then another 3/4 inch
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piece and then another almost half inch piece for the Lagoon table so they need to be pretty pretty
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long so once this is uh done you can actually just take this assembly
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out and I'm going to show you why this was specifically put in this location
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so you can kind of see there um so I just did the table saw here miter saw in both Corners Square everything up and so
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this is nice piece but what's really going to be cool is once this gets uh sealed it's it's it's going to pop it's
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going to look really good all right and then we've got our
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two stainless steel screws this one's already been taken out uh this cabinet
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actually holds itself into place uh due to the Ford gasket over here um I will
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be adding one more screw here I'm not sure if I'm going to do it now or later
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um because when we get back from the show the only thing that didn't get done on this B to fully complete the van uh
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was the plumbing so we still got to do the water pump and the PEX lines uh but
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everything else is ready to go
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that little bit of electrical that you saw today that was the last piece of
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electrical so if you you can guys kind of can see the reverse install so you'll actually open
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this door up and then your screwdriver will be level with the door and then
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you'll be able to unscrew uh this the two screws that
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actually holds the face of this housing
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on so that'll come out here and so later this is where we'll actually um put our
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connections and what's nice is it is keeping the connections High higher up
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than you know if it did it slightly rained on before you you could get time
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to get all your stuff back in your van um I took a lot of time to make sure that the uh Lagoon Mount pole what I did
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is I came through and I drew a profile line on the left hand side of this and
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so what they did is it gave me the visual ual line that I needed right here
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as my kind of my reference so if you can imagine um that was my visual line right
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there and then all I did was I went through and just did equidistance from the bottom to the top following this
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body line and that's how I came up with the placement like this that way when you look at it uh you get
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that uh look like it was meant to to be
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where it's at which is kind of the whole point when you're designing stuff
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um and then I made sure that I was really precise with cutting the bamboo out and this is really almost like a
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press fit in here so it's not going to wobble or move anytime you move that box
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you want to do a nice tight fit like that especially when there's only two mounting points for this whole
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entire assembly uh so since you can't do any more anything to hold it making sure
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this is tight uh is a good idea so now we're going to see why this
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got mounted in the location it got
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mounted yeah so this is a really tight
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fit and then there you go you can kind of see how that is put together so we're
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going to take this over here so that we can go ahead and seal it before we head out
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tonight so now we're looking at the back side of the kitchen Galley what's nice about having
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something like this well in the construction phase is we have access to everything so there's actually these
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access pieces cut out already by Flatline van Cove so that you can uh you
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can do plumbing or electrical that way when the face is on you don't have to worry about changing
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anything um we've also pulled all of our Electrical uh up through a
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hole right here in the floor so everything from the power system comes
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out here and this is our sub panel for the rest of the van so our heater lights
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all that good stuff comes out of here so if you need to work on a fuse you just
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open the Kitchen Gallery door it's right here it's really convenient now this last part has to do
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with this over here and if you can see we've got
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um we've got this slot so these are the adventure R wagon ready slots so if this
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kitchen gy was on the opposite side of the van uh what you can do or the way that this is designed is so you can take
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a bolt for the L track and you can actually bolt this and adjust it whether it's a sprinter or Transit you can
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adjust this to the adventure wagon rails and actually bolt it into the L track
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and so I've done that on the left hand side of the gap and then we've just taken two bolts and bolted it into the floor here and that
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is securing this whole entire Galley for in the event you know an accident or
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quick stop this whole Galley is actually bolted to the structure of the
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van so what I did on the mount right here is I took this slot and I went up
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all the way to the top of the slot and then I found a place where I wanted to have my next hole ho so that way this is
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actually on a metal structure or aluminum and this aluminum structure it's not having to
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uh have the bamboo be at support this uh powder coat aluminum corner here
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is this support So this you can put a ton of weight on this um so it'll be super strong extremely
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rigid we do have the two bolts over here that's you saw where bolted in for the
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bamboo so that's going to be good too um and if you ever buy a lagoon table Mount
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system you're going to have a lot there's going to be a lot of pieces in it it comes with these uh plastic
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shims so if you put them together opposite one another technically it
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could be a spacer um this right here is just a piece of uh I think this is a piece of
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stainless or maybe might might be aluminum yeah it's probably aluminum I should know right um that
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comes with a kit then this piece of plywood comes with a kit and then the last thing that comes
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with a kit is this and then there's a bag of hardware
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and then they wrap this whole thing so this whole thing comes as a kit and then I think you get maybe this arm too it
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all comes like as a kit um not sponsored but I get the stuff from Panther RV I've
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just been buying stuff from them for a long time I like they kind of do business like old school
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business you know you can call somebody up there's humans there um but yeah so this is the whole
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kit so you can take this kit and then do anything to your van uh it's enough stuff to get started with mounting
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Lagoon table Mount if you've if you've never mounted one before all right so um yeah I'm getting
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ready to head out and I'm going to go ahead and put a coat of that uh actually
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let me show you that before I leave in case you guys are wondering what I'm using so I'm just using a a foam brush
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and then I'm spraying on this H polyacrylic it is water-based a clear
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matte and um what I'm doing is I'm just spraying it on there pretty thick and
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then I'm taking a foam brush and going with a grain and just making sure everything dries evenly and I've got a
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sample here that I've coated sanded and
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recoded you can kind of see uh what kind of color change if any is on
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here if you guys can see this is a this has been the finished part so this is
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what it looked like when it's finished this is the unfinished side so it's just going have that nice
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natural tone um and we do need to do some cutting
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into this top Butcher Block section I'm not sure if I'm going get that finished before the show um just got a lot of
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things going on and uh yeah but we're excited to go to the show we're going to it's going to
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be all cleaned up um visually everything's going to look great we'll
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just have a two uh three upholstered panels on the Water System covering
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everything so we won't have the uh the external shower or the control knobs and stuff
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like that in the back which is okay um but everything else will be conceptionally where we want it to to
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show everybody um the rest of the build and yeah so we're definitely uh
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excited and uh if you guys are interested in purchasing this van it's currently for sale as of filming this
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video and we're also anticipating that um
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the next customer that purchases this van or if you are looking to purchase this van um there's always going to be
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modifications people always want to make changes so um I can bet that whoever
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purchases this van is going to want to change a bunch of things um Thomas if you're watching this you know that uh on
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Thomas's van we've added so many things it's been a really fun project um yeah we we've got more plans later this year
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to put more stuff in his van we're going to upgrade uh the battery um we found a
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spot underneath the seat uh s so just came out with a new I think it's a
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2 60 amp hour battery and it is uh the exact
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dimensions uh of the half of the passenger seat so if you put a
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Webasto um stdc 2000 heater in it the remaining space is ex exact dimensions
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of this s so battery so uh it's going to be pretty cool um that would give his
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van let's see let me make sure this uh s so is I think it's a
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260 see s so
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battery let's see
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here
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280 this say a 280 amp hour
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battery same technology as the other s so's we have four 100 amp hour s in his
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van so 4 plus the 280 so it'll be 680 amp hours um it's got a built-in heater
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Bluetooth connectivity it's their 280 amp battery so the dimensions of the battery that's
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really exciting is um it's 13 in by 9 1 12 in by 9.84 in
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so about 10 in and that's awesome to have that much power in such a small footprint because there's no other place
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in the van to add a battery for him um and we just uh we just need a little bit
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200 amp hours to really make everything much more comfortable um he's spending more time in his van um you know using
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all the electronics and the inverter and all that and so we just want to uh instead of waiting for things to
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kind of top off and charge um now this is already saying he's already got 550 watts of solar 400
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amp hours uh yeah so he's he's turning into a van power user so we need to uh
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do a little upgrade um this van has 600 amp hours
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and of the 600 amp hours um two of the batteries are uh the self
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uh no three of the batteries are the self-heating version and what's nice is if there's a really deep freeze um and I
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actually tested it uh I put the van outside and the temperature got I think
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had like 26° like a really cold night and it was cool because the state of charge I think
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was like 80% and then overnight the battery heaters were on all night because the
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van got so cold so the van maintained power and then I think uh maybe 15% of
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the battery or something like that was 10% um was taken down and it was just
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the batteries keeping themselves warm uh during the night so it's pretty
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interesting all right what else do I want to tell you guys before I sign off
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here yeah yeah let me know what you know like about the late night stream
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sometimes I'm here you know working on something just because I need to get it done before the next thing happens the next day but
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um yeah that is going to do it for uh this stream tonight guys make sure
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you're subscribed if you have any questions put them in the comments below I'm happy to answer it in a future video
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um yeah we're going to call night we're going to do a Cod of clear on here and
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then we're going to get out of the shop so uh we'll see you guys on the next live
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