Building A Murphy Bed System In A Camper Van | Simple Hinge Design

hey guys welcome back to live stream today we're going to be going over how to build a Murphy bed system in your

camper van I thought this is going to be an awesome video for you guys because I've seen a lot of these Murphy Beds but

the one that we actually built in Thomas's van was pretty cool so we're actually going to go through how I built

the frame uh the hinges that are involved we're going to go over a little

drawing here to show you guys how to actually install one and then what to look out

for measurement wise but this turned out to be really clean it was kind of like an open 80 20 format

as far as we actually didn't cover the frame now covering the frame that's something

that you guys can do if you want to you can put you can do like like you know fabric board over it you can do wood you

can do bamboo something like that um but let's hop into let's see here if

I can pull this video up basically what we're going to do is here we go we are going to

kind of go through back in time of how this uh merch bed came about

so you guys if you look at the screen that I have right here this is uh the beginnings of Thomas's van build which

we're also calling Marine One and the layout is

the water tank on the left power system on the right now it doesn't matter which side you do

what um because what's going to make the Murphy

bed either work or not work is your layout so if we go over here this little

drawing pad you guys are going to be able to see that we've got a couple things we've got our

our water over here we've got our power again like I said these two things can be independent does

not have to be on the left side or the right side what is important is

let me change the color here is this Gap right here

so there's a couple if you're doing a Murphy bed you have to keep in mind of two things

you have this measurement in this direction and then this measurement in

the y direction if we want to get technical so

each one of these uh links has to be equal

because when the bed is coming down it's obviously going to touch wherever

this this distance is now uh when I say equal

that is in a perfect world where your hinge and corner of your

bed frame is right there on the edge so we know that's not going to happen so we

can go ahead and erase this I will make this will make sense here in just a minute

so you only have to have two measurements you worry about um and once you get this Arc going

correctly Landing in this spot it'll be a nice system and it'll work really well

so let me show you about where it's going to land so if we go back to the videos let's let

me hop back over here okay if you look at this video you can

see this bar right here and so see if I can actually

get a better view of it okay so this two pieces of 80 20 right

here this is where that end of the bed is going to land so if we go back to our drawing tablet

this is this piece right here

okay it's this piece right here so we're looking like that

so that's where the bed comes down so the first thing we need to do is this

uh over here on the Y side this is the most important because this

distance here has to do with

and let me get color there we go it has to do with

see if purple shows up this has to do with the height the interior height of your van

um this is important because nothing else matters if you don't have enough height to get the the bed system in here

the way you want so first thing we're going to do is we're going to check our height

and then so this is our total height the purple here is our total height of our van

and then to find out how long our bed frame is going to be we're just going to

subtract this number right here

so let's call this a so we're going to subtract a and a is going to include it could be

our wood thickness

it could be our 80 20. thickness which in our case is an inch and a half

so let's just say that this is inch and a half

so a is inch and a half um

okay that's a is an inch and a half and right here just remember this is

probably also going to include your ceiling so essentially you're taking out

whatever you're going to anticipate your ceiling to be that seems pretty obvious then down here at the bottom let's call

that b so this height is going to be

your water tank could be your power system it could be storage compartments

anything like that whatever is underneath your bed so imagine that this right here is where

your mattress is going to lay down so if your mattress lays down right

there then that is where

it needs to be thank you

okay I'm back so B is that height

and so let's just say that this is uh

we'll do 18. come on

put it 18 and a half inches so we got 18 and a half s are 19. and then we got 20.

just just to give a simple math so we've got 20 inches from the height that we've got to subtract

now that tells us this number which is

running out of colors

let's do this let's do green so we got green so green is what we're

trying to end up at so green is

how long the Murphy bed frame can be I know it's the height it look might be confusing but it's actually the length of the bed

because when this actually comes down is going to be down here okay

so today's video is going to show you how to make this Frame

and hinge it on this corner

um and then add slats so that it can support a mattress so that's the the goal of today's live

stream so now we know the math behind it the height of your van

minus whatever the ceiling is and minus whatever your water or storage system is

you know the bottom gives you that maximum leak that your bed can be now you want to you're going to want to

take away two other little measurements which are this is going to be the air gap that you

want so that the bed can actually come into the space as well as down here at the bottom

so this could be like a quarter of an inch for example and a quarter of an inch down here it just gives you room to

be able to to move the bed so for example if we go back to

uh we got a new example

let's go this is the this is the ending video but

it shows you what I'm talking about so right here this is the gap I'm talking about

and this is the gap up here it's just so that it allows it to to

move in there you'll see it in the video here in just a second

so we're using 80 20. and we're going to go to let's just play through these videos

that way I don't miss anything since it's been a while since I did this

um let's see nothing in that one let's see what are we doing this one

I think this one is just measuring okay this is perfect yep okay so let me back up there we go

so let's just look for example at this water tank so we've already got our floor in

and the water tank is sitting directly on the floor and then this water tank this is

actually from Titan Vans they're a Titan van DIY system

and they have these little mounting points and what I did is I built a frame around the tank so I wouldn't have to

worry about it moving and whatever uh the width of the tank aft with the 80 20

was 12 inches on the inside which is perfect because a six inch mattress that is folded

um like in three parts you just fold it half not three parts in half when you fold it

in half it's going to be six and six so it's 12. so that will allow a six inch

mattress to fold and fit in our Murphy bed um

I don't know what we would call that the chamber that the Murphy bed sits in how about that

um so this little chamber area that holds the mattress you got to think about that too make

sure that in this case your storage water tanker power system is is wide enough

to accommodate the bed when the uh bed system itself is fully closed

all right so is there a tank and everything kind of worked out really well the width of this tank

um just it happened to be 12 inches and then the 12 inches with the inch and a

half of 80 20 gave room for the frame so so far we're doing pretty good

we know our height right here we know um

or high thinner ceiling we got that so the next part is the trickiest part of the whole process

so what I'm doing now is this one's hard to actually measure

um I mean you can do all the math you can measure but this is more of a real

life problem and what I'm saying is build the structure and frame but this bar right

here let this bar be adjustable that way when you build your frame you

can move this up or down to just dial in how you want the hinge system to work

because what I'm saying is the hardest part is the actual hinge system itself

let's talk about that real quick so let's go to a new page

so like I said before if you had a let's just say you had a hinge like this

and this was your pivot point if this is 10 inches and this is 10

inches when this comes down this is going to fall right at the 10 inch mark

because of where the the pivot point is but with the Murphy bed

you're going to have a hinge Pivot Point but remember this is now not a perfect

line that is not a perfect one um

it's not perfect because your hinges here

like this so the hinges on the outside so now

depending on where this hinge is located so say in our case our platform is

actually maybe a little higher so this is what I'm meaning when you have

to kind of play around with this angle is so that when this folds down

it's going to enter it's going to hit where you want it to to lay down on so I'll show you how to do this this is

coming but what I want you to keep in mind is this hinge is going to mess up your measurements because it's not

a perfect Pivot Point you're you're not equal distance from here and here

because when this hinge comes down you have this distance that is affecting

uh where this part comes down I think that'll make sense later in this video

if you have questions put them in the comments below

oh Daniel what is going on uh is it a medium roof height or is it a

van this so this is a medium roof fan

Yep this is a medium roof fan

uh that's a really good point okay let me pause there this is why the chat is so important

definitely ask questions in the chat because the medium roof van limits

how long our bed frame can be because we can only be so high

so if we had for example let's go back to this

so this area and let's see if I can go red so this area right here

if you guys can see this this area would change depending if it's

a medium roof High roof

so depending on this this distance would change which would make your

bed length change so I'm pretty sure that makes that makes sense

um videos there we go all right so

so now that we're paying attention hold on make sure I keep you guys with me

so now that we're making sure we're paying attention to where this uh this hinge is right here

okay keep a close eye on this in this next part hmm

okay so I got to give you guys another example

because it's actually more complicated don't worry I will teach you how to do

this it's not complicated it's just kind of kind of got to mess with it a little bit

all right see these hinges what I was trying to explain and this is

I didn't draw this right so this is the 80 20 bar of your bed

this is the 80 20 bar of whatever uh

let's just say this is the water water tank down there right so this Gap right here

um the pivot Points here in the hinge is here

so in a perfect world trying not to do all this math on you guys but

it's hard when it's exactly that's what it is geometry how about that

um in a perfect world you see this this would be your perfect Arc to where this distance

um these two distances would be the same problem that we have is where the hinges

so this little Gap here is going to make when it folds

down right here it's going to actually be longer

that's what I was trying to say

so what I'm going to do so what I did was I made the bed frame

and then this adjustment allowed me to go up or down ever so slightly

so I could dial in this over here think think of this Bottom bar as your bar that allows you to make

adjustments after you've made

this okay we're going to go over this I'm going to jump back and forth but once you make this

you can you still have adjustment I guess that's what I'm trying to say

so

let's go to the next video all right so

these slats right here you can find them at Ikea these are IKEA bed slats

you guys have probably seen them um they come in they come in this little pack

kind of tied together and then they're going to have all this webbing on them and then what you want to do is measure

the width of your bed so uh in our case the bed was 48 inches

wide so for a 48 inch wide bed we didn't want to cut each of these 24

inches because what I wanted to do and you'll see this here in a second yeah where's my mouse

oh come on get the video there we go

if you'll notice uh they're overlapping right here so if they were perfectly 48

this you wouldn't have this overlap you need this overlap so that you can connect them to this

middle support

and don't worry I'm not going to go too fast I'm going to step by step through this whole thing so you have your key bits let's

um take my other package and somehow I was able to just cut on the

miter saw I was able to just cut these extra ends off and get them out of my way because they were larger than the

length that I had I don't have the exact length and yours is going to be different anyway so

but anyway what you want to do is you want to buy these IKEA bed slats and you see how they have a bend in them so this

bin allows it to have a little bit of flex so it's you know more comfortable than just hardwood or the 80 20.

and so if we come through here

and so I line them all up there you go you can see the webbing

so I went to my miter saw in the back room and I measured and I you know

just math

I'll find out where I wanted my middle beam to be

and one thing you want to do hopefully I might mention it later in the video but I'm going to mention it right now so don't forget but when you build this 80

20 frame you can use four angle brackets that's perfect but what really makes

this so much of a stiffer frame is you're going to want to drill and tap

this middle bar and you're going to want to drill and tap these outer bars so all three of

these bars you want to drill and tap the ends of them and then drill through

all right let's go with a drawing pad so let's see how fast I can draw this

all right so you have your 80 20 bars so you want to drill and tap through

here so that you have a screw going through here and a screw going through here and

a screw that's going through here um because what's going to happen is

these bamboo they have a some spring tension in them and so once

you bolt them down it's going to make this bar want to torque and turn

and it doesn't your angle brackets are not going to be it doesn't matter how much you tighten it it's not going to be

able to hold that and they are going to twist a little bit so if you drill and tap

Let's uh let me get more detailed view here so if you

there we go so the 80 20 usually has a hole right here

and on the inside is going to have that same

hole right there hold on

I can get fancier than that there we go

okay so what we want to do is we want to

drill and tap through here and then have the screw go into this one

that way you have your angle bracket here for example

and it allows this to not twist so this won't twist

by drilling a putting a bolt in here in this Bolt goes through here

so let me know if that makes sense

so we have our frame they put together now our frame right here we've the

length of our frame is what will fit

um like this

right here so remember this is the this that green

measurement is what we used to find the length of a frame

all right so we got our length of our frame check this here okay good

so we got our frame made and let's see what the next step we do here we're putting in our angle brackets

and these are 80 20 official angle brackets they're not anything that's been modified

and I'm just checking double checking Center

got my Hardware and what I do with angle uh with 80 20

every single nut every single one is has a lock stainless steel lock washer

on it and they lock so well

um those lock washers they lock so well that if you ever tried to undo it it actually cuts into the aluminum coming

out that's that's how good you really don't even have to use Loctite on those type of joints

it is very extremely difficult for that uh stayso lock washer to have that

nut Come Undone but you can put Loctite on all of them

there's some in some different areas that I put Loctite on and some that I did not

but in some areas it was so difficult to get it out that actually called the the Allen threads and I had to use a new

uh Saka head cap screw so now I'm just kind of clamping all

these together I'm doing my measurements and I think this is when I go to the

miter saw to chop it

yep so you guys can see see how I did a nice clean cut on each side and then I'm coming through and just triple checking

that I had that overlap that I want and I'm laying them all out

and this is kind of fun to do this

yep so just laying them out and then you know you

kind of have to turn your brain back on because you know you can start at the beginning right here but you know how are you going to finish at the end

so I had to start thinking about how I was going to finish and I think I I possibly had to cut one different

not sure here let's see

so I just come all the same

yeah so it actually worked out pretty good I think later what I do is I take one of

these off because when I have to fold the bed up it was in the way and I had to leave like maybe three inches of a

gap instead of an inch and a half but then we just move further and we

have you do have to pre-drill every single hole going into the 80 20.

and so I cheated a little bit and what I did is I just used a

um actually no so I I thought I was using the uh

self-tapping screw to actually drill my hole and then use a drill bit but as you obviously can see I did use the drill

bit um so that's kind of a that's a DIY hack if if you don't have a drill bit for

every single screw that you're trying to drill in and you're using self-tapping screws you can sacrifice one of the

self-tapping screws to get your hole going because usually the screws are not that strong and once you get it drilled

in there sometimes it can Gall up so you can kind of sacrifice the first screw and then take it out and then use a

fresh Screw As the the one that you want it to uh hold you know whatever you're holding to

your van it could be wood it could be metal so now what I'm doing is I'm using one of the slats to

maintain the proper space between all the slats and this is just for visual

purposes it's just so it looks very professional when it's done

and the nice thing about 80 20 um it's it's really not that heavy I mean I can move this around no problem

uh so yes I'm just drilling each one and

those these are called lathe screws l-a-t-h

lathe screws

so keep going just drill them all in there and fast forward here a little bit

make sure you vacuum up like I was doing vacuum it all all the uh

the aluminum out always vacuum vacuum all the time keep everything clean so you're not

scratching your nice floors that you just put in

and here you can see me go through and just start the next piece

and so this one I have to be careful on the inside because there's not really a channel to vacuum out the aluminum as

you can see it's covering up the whole Channel so I'm having to just really make sure I

vacuum before I put the next piece in and allow that suction to get whatever fine leans out because this middle rib

is pretty much 100 percent um uh what am I trying to say

yeah it's closed it's a great tip tapping to add extra

strength yes yes drew that is a um

I want to say that I knew beforehand but uh

I found this out later

yeah I found this uh I found this out later because I put it

into a Thomas's van and uh

at first uh just the grip of the aluminum to

itself like the cut in it was really strong and I was like okay it wasn't it's going to be it's going to be all

right but then I started to uh this okay this is what happened when I started to I'm not jumping ahead

we're going to talk about these hinges that I used they're spring-loaded hinges they're actually made for fire doors but

it wasn't until I started putting the the preload on these hinges that it that

uh not tapping through the frame to tighten it in that's when it showed

itself so when I put this because that force was actually starting to to tweak it I think that's

what it was it was something later um because I was trying to do it without it

just because I mean that's one two three that's six tappings um

oh the other reason that it was the uh kind of finding out later was

I realized that to tap those threads I had to take the whole thing apart so

I had to take this uh I had to take this front part off I had

to take the two I had to completely take off the left and the right side so

um yeah this is for you guys so you don't have to you can you can learn from my mistakes

yep so just uh putting it in here I think this is I don't think I'd do anything that we're gonna miss on this

stream yeah really just make sure you're vacuuming that is the

that is the most important

and like I said I think I kept this rib this blast rib I needed the extra

distance so I think this one is not in the current setup

uh yeah so we're coming back in the van and so now let's talk about the hinges

before I go too far so these two hinges here these are uh

they're they're pretty difficult to find and uh if you guys are doing DIY stuff

there's a two ways that things are happening you're finding parts at Lowe's and they fit or you have no idea where

it's located you find one place and it's really expensive or it's like hard to get shipping wise

um so this was a little bit of both I was trying to go online so I I usually

go to Lowe's all the time you anybody you ask anybody I'm at Lowe's all the time

but I didn't buy the hinges at Lowe's because I didn't think these were the the right offset so the holes right here

the reason I'm talking about this imagine you want to buy a hinge that Springs loaded but there's no

engineering engineered drawings to tell you if these holes

are going to line up like that so this hole and this hole so

you don't you don't know that um I mean I don't have a problem taking one of these pieces to Lowe's and walking

down the aisle but it's just it's just kind of cumbersome uh so one thing that I did was this is

kind of my going back to my engineering days is I try to find companies that have engineering drawings where I can

I can print it out or I can I have some reference that I can actually tell me the exact distance and of the holes in

relation to the this axis right here that it spins on so not this slip to

this lip which is typically what like at Lowe's you would find because you know a homeowner or somebody they just want to

know how their door shutting but for me I want to make sure that these holes will line up so I don't have

to modify the bracket and I can just bolt it through this hole to a t-slot

nut on the 80 20. okay so long story short I found these online

and then I found them at Lowe's so they actually have these at Lowe's

um they are the reliable spring hinge the three and a half inch

version with a quarter inch radius as you can see that

spring hand spring hinge three and a half inch with the inch the quarter inch

radius and the way that these work is right now you can see this is this is all floppy

so there's no it's not pre-loaded so if you can imagine

like a fire door or whatever apparently has to be able to self-close

so these hinges are part of that self-closing mechanism

and the way that it works is there's a there's a little pin that comes in the package

and if you look at the bracket you want the words facing out okay

because in our case that's what we're doing um

and then we've got okay so

you got the words facing out because this there's like a little chamfer right there you see so that's where the bolt

would go on but you don't have to worry about that you're not going to use the center one if you're using 80 20. you're just using these outer two

so the way that the spring works is if you guys can see right here there's a hole

so this hole is where you put this pin in now this is the wrong way to do it

because the pin is just going to fall out but I'm gonna put the pin in temporarily just to show you guys an example so

watch if I take this it just falls down see how it falls down

but you take the PIN all right take the PIN

and hopefully I don't damage my computer over here I'm gonna try to hold it but

you can see it Springs like that

so once you get this on the bed system itself here's the secret

it comes with an allen wrench all right you're gonna take that allen wrench and you're going to put it in here

and you're going to use this to pre pre-load so see

I can't let go of this is going to fly across the shop but when I pull this it's wanting to swing back so what you

do is you're pre-loading the spring inside and this thing uh this thing is

it looks like it's not going to hold a lot but I'm gonna read the package here so

let's see here so it has a 50 pound unless door 50 to 85 pound and 85 to 100

pounds um uh I mean this is a this is okay

the point is you're going to have to keep adding Springs until you get the

list of lift assist that you want so for me

I said the 80 20 bed was not that heavy but it's pretty heavy so for me I crank it down as much as I

could and as soon as I'm just going to do this not not too hard so I don't tear up the

shop but what I'm going to do is let's see if you can see that okay see how when I pull it down those

hope those those holes move almost like a like a chamber and a gun

you see that how they just kind of go through so what you're going to do is pull it down until you get the desired spring

which is probably all the way and then

I need three hands this is not gonna work all right so you pull it down

oh God so you pull it down and then Once you

pull down the preload you stick the pin in okay

and once the pin goes in then you can release this but now be careful because

see this this is uh this hinge see

it's pre-loaded okay so how what does this have to do with the bed well

when you pre-load this hinge when you pull the bed down it's going to want to push the bed back up I mean not that

hard it's just going to give you a little bit of assist that way when you're going up and down

up and down you know you know it doesn't wear you out okay back to

back to the video here okay so we got our spring hinges

and let's see here so this was my

way of actually installing this by myself so I took the bed frame and I took a

ratchet strap and

all I did was wrap it a couple times and they gave me like a little pulley system and that way I could pull it up taunt

like that I could get the

hinges bolted and the secret here is this is up here

now what look I kept the Gap that I was looking for up top about uh I think it was a quarter of an

inch and I use this to balance I put in the middle so it's balanced

and it gave me my quarter of an inch Gap at the top so now I leave this Bottom bar loose

I put the hinges on this top part of the bed

and then the uh laughs thanks April

it's hard work uh the thing is I really enjoy it so it's

um you know what they call that Hardware's not that hard if you enjoy it um

if you go step by step and just take your time you can do this but

so the benefit of this is the results are so cool because it's so precise you

get a spring assist and actually uh you know Thomas and I we left it open like

this because it kind of I don't know kind of has like a little Zen Vibe you know like with the slats

it it looks cool so we didn't cover it up after this

um okay so the Bottom bar keep it Loose this top bar of the bed

you're going to put your brackets on there first so what I did is I'm bolting the brackets

up here actually no I did it Opposite if I'm telling you guys what to do do

the bed and then do the bottom

okay so you know how I said uh so I said earlier that you want it's not going to

be perfect on paper so you're going to need to have adjustments so

notice how I've got the hinges in everything's kind of loose

and I'm just using my hand up there to kind of just massage it into place

we have two hinges here I ended up putting five hinges on here

it's a cool thing to do but it's the same time it's not going to solve all the problems in the world you know you're going to

have to use multiple hinges so however you feel about that you can cover them up but we the design of this

build is kind of very like you know kind of military 80 20 with just a little bit of style type of thing and that was the

vibe that we were going for so I think it looks really good I'll show you the end result here in a second

all right

um then we're gonna go let's see here

oh man this is real time video probably me talking

yeah you guys are in for a treat in the upcoming streams because I've got I've got all this footage from this build and

the editing just takes way too long it's just easier to kind of walk step through step with this and uh

uh you know plus it's just nice to interact with you guys get some questions at the same time

okay so here I am I've got I took the oh yeah yeah let's see here check it out

so you see what I did I've got a piece of wood up here on the top left and that's got my Gap set because I think

what I did is I I wanted to test this out so I got my gaps all set and then I

clamped down on all these hinges and the 80 20 bar

um let's mute this

all right keep going keep going there we go okay guys this is the first

time that I opened it up

all right a couple things man this is dark I don't know if you guys can see it so let's go back I want you to pay

attention where this Frame is coming out and notice how when it as the frame comes

down the bed is going further out so that that is that uh

so over here when the frame comes down it's going

further out right there and

so I had to uh well I'll get to it so anyway it came down

here's the other thing you got to make sure that when uh when

it comes down that this piece here and then the bed

coming down here you got to make sure that This Plane

is level that's why you want this bar down here

to be adjustable so that if you make your bed just like a quarter inch

too long you can you can change it right here and you don't have to remake this whole

bed because you can't change any of this if that makes sense

April I appreciate those comments so this is pretty new uh stuff number one

for the channel the channel is pretty new um

I've been doing this stuff a while but the channel is New so uh if you want to invite more people to

watch this stream uh I we're kind of working out the Kinks as far as timing goes it really just has to do with what

I'm doing on the van or on the computer so we will get a solid schedule

it seems with the comments right now like this time of night as you know everybody's at home watching videos so

this is probably a pretty good time maybe like an eight o'clock stream is what we'll do

um so yeah uh but yeah spread the spread

the word we're going to be doing all kinds of stuff and I always suggest to you guys if there's something

that you're doing on your build or just say you're not doing a building you're interested in something put in the comments and we'll do a stream on it I

have I have tons and tons of content that I can go over just like this and show you

what I'm doing because this is old stuff this is this is stuff that I've done weeks ago months

ago so the content is there to review footage that I have

um and this this is a good format I love this format because it's getting my

footage that I take out there and it's not relying on me to fully edit everything and get it perfect before it

actually uploads to YouTube because right now you know you guys are you guys are seeing this in real time

um all right so the bed's going up and down okay it works

um okay so this is the last video I have of me uh putting the bed in

so the lat the next uh the next video will be the last video here and then

um we've got a couple people in the chat so I think we actually might be able to

take some questions that'll be pretty cool so let me get to this next video um

where is it back up Let's see we did this one this one this

one this one that was the last one okay so this video here

uh we're just going to go right to the beginning um

so this video was taken so this video you're about to see here this was taken at Adventure van Expo

Chattanooga Tennessee this year so I have a full video and blog uh not blog

Vlog that I did at the van show so what I did is um I did a whole entire filming

of like my whole trip there spending the night in my personal van not this one it's another van you guys

might have seen um and uh I went through and kind of did my

normal thing so when I go to these shows I try to do a couple of things uh I try to interview as many companies as I can

to help you guys with content uh we take the Expos we chop it all up so that we

have the vendors they're all going to kind of get their own video and uh

there's no affiliation with anybody at this event it's strictly just curiosity of seeing what these companies have to

do uh and just show you guys what's happening in the industry because not everyone knows about the shows

um not everyone can go to the shows so I put together these videos

um so this was a video file from Thomas's van

now let me get there there we go

um so this is Thomas's van this is this is very close to being finished uh so this

is kind of where the van is at right now the fans coming back in January to have

a couple of these end caps and fabric panels finished because like I was saying you know

trying to get something ready for a show is very hard but uh I mean Thomas has been awesome to

work with I mean you know we've really been able to collaborate and

the relationship's so good because we can actually we bounce off ideas we can be patient actually do things the right way instead of kind of rushing to get

something done and so it just makes the overall build uh that much better awesome April hope

to see you in the next live stream uh I'm gonna try to do one tomorrow

all right we're not over yet I was just thinking April for for watching the stream so far

um so right here we've got the platform over the water tank that we actually upholstered and then now we've got the

the bed frame or the uh the actual Murphy bed itself we've

got everything dialed in so that it's meeting up with the right side

and I'm just talking about how we you know upholstered the tank over here this is this is a good way to to show

you guys um just to finish the end result I'm not sure how far this goes in we're

just gonna let this play for a second yeah right after this I think I I

actually fold it up so you guys can see uh what it looks like we'll talk about that water system too

in another stream all right so here is the the bed so you can see it's super clean

this is a locking system from 80 20. um

and then at the top I put like a little felt pad at the top

uh

let's see here I wonder if that's a set yeah yeah there we go we show so that we'll show you the how clean it is so

you see we planned the root this roof to actually come right at that lip so I got

about eighth of an inch Gap right there before the bed comes in so it made it a

really clean transition

uh and then back up back up and then this is the recess to allow the

bed to fit in to uh the channel here

and uh yeah that is uh it's pretty much it for the bed let's I'm gonna just

scrub through here real quick and see um that's our power system we'll talk

about that in another video uh yep okay

I'm not going to spoil it for the guys who haven't seen the other one but yeah so there's the final place where the bed

rest

all right let me pull up some other stuff here for you guys

hey guys thanks so much for watching this stream again uh we're gonna end it here with a little lengthy tonight but

um a little late tonight rather but uh yeah we're gonna end the stream here um but before I sign off here just

wanted to uh show you guys over to one second let me pull this up there you go

over to uh uh my company's website so that is uh

Odyssey custom vans so you're watching van Builder HQ but doing all the building is

Odyssey custom vans and uh you know chances are if you guys are watching this video you may be

interested in building your own van with you guys asking those questions in the comments but you also may be looking for

someone to hire and build your van professionally so I'd love to reach out to you guys

um by getting some info and if you are interested in contacting me go to

odysseycustomvans.com head over to the website Thomas's build and other bills are not

on here updated so that'll be coming up in the next coming weeks but go here click on contact just put your name

phone number and email address and then down at the bottom where the message is just give me a little idea of you know what you guys are looking for as far as

a professional build you know I'm always looking for new projects to bring into this shop and I'd love to get in touch

with you and go over your your van build for uh kind of making your adventures a reality

so guys thanks so much for watching and uh we'll catch you in the next live

stream