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Flooring Install Part 4 | Livestream Shop Cam
May 2, 2025
Have questions? Ask in the Chat! Join me on this livestream as we install 1" aluminium supports for the FLVC slide out tray & create a path for electrical wires under the floor. Whenever you’re ready, there are 2 ways we can help you: 1. If you need a vetted parts list, download our → FREE DIY Van Build Cheatsheet to help you save time and money on Van Parts and Gear: CLICK HERE: https://van-builder-hq.ck.page/846c83ab54 2. If you want to get Done-For-You Van Build help, book a → FREE Consultation with my Calendly Link: CLICK HERE: https://calendly.com/odysseycustomvans/intro-call?month=2023-07
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thank you [Music]
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thank you all right guys we are live welcome back
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to the shop we are in I wonder if I labeled the video wrong
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see I think this is part five let's see what the broadcast says real quick
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we're working on the floor
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you know what it doesn't matter because we can fix it later
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all right working on the uh floors you guys can tell we went ahead and took all the stuff that we were
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um using to glue down the floor and if you're just joining us we're doing a live build the next uh couple weeks to
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knock out this van we've got everything in the shop it's just now time to actually apply everything to the van so things that
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need to be modified and painted they've came back from other vendors
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um stuff such as the you know power components the rooftop AC we've been
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working on all that and so everything's just really coming together and so this series is pretty much like a daily
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series just to get you guys updated on what I'm doing with the van and also to
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kind of uh you know document the whole process so if you guys have questions in the future you can go back and reference
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the video or if you have questions right now you just go in the chat and ask me because we're live it's Saturday and uh
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yeah it's nice quiet day at the shop one thing I'm going to mention really
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quick before we get started if you guys are doing your own DIY build and you're looking for some help as far
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as finding parts and you're looking for a way to quickly look at parts for a van from somebody
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that has already bought a lot of Van Parts I want you guys to check out the DIY van build
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all my Amazon purchases stuff that I have in the shop all the tools products and stuff like that so it's already
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vetted and it's essentially an Excel sheet so this is what it looks like
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we have electrical we have Fasteners Hardware HVAC insulation kitchen Roofing
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solar which we'll be doing in the following week we've got the last part
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right here tools awesome section uh all the stuff you see me using in the shop is right here well
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most of it this is a living document so it's always going to be growing over time you can see we got over 255 items at the
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current moment so we're still adding to this working on this list but the nice
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nice way to just have a list I use it just to reference when I need to catch
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help you guys out on your DIY van build all right back to the Stream
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so we are
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back here in the back um and if you're just joining us and you haven't been watching the stream uh we're putting the flooring system in
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typically you put the floor in and kind of build the van up from there but this fan has a pretty complex system in the
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floor we have a flip and fold seat that's going to be mounted over here taking up a hole in the floor we have an
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in-floor hidden shower pan which I'm actually kneeling in right now
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then we have our uh Webasto airtop 40 or EVO airtop 40.
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heater we have some electrical lines that need to actually go underneath the van
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because where we want our control panel the factory wiring is not long enough to
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make our run back to our power system so what we've done is we've set up a
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secondary fuse panel right here so a sub panel if you will and the sub panel is
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pretty much going to power all of our 12 volt components in the van that way if you need to ever work on it it's in one
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location you can take off the back panel of the kitchen galley access it just sitting right outside
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your van replace your fuses do all your main nuts in one location and then your main heavy duty fuses so
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all your mega fuses you know 100 amps 80 amps stuff for the AC and then inverter
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that's all going to be located in this back area so just two nice convenient areas to work on your system you don't
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have to worry about anything else up here we're going to have a very sleek
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interface we're going to use the renergy one system so you have one screen to monitor everything
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we have our victron battery Monitor to Monitor our battery and then we have our Webasto uh smart
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Bluetooth controller which allows us to wirelessly control
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the temperature on our heater which is very convenient because if you've ever
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if you're done camping or van life already you know how nice it is on a cold morning to just crank up that
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heater get the van nice and warm and get out of bed so we want to make sure everything is
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nice and convenient in this van but also easily accessible if it ever needs to be uh
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if maintenance needs to come all right what we're doing today is
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we paused on the second section because like I said earlier our wire is not long
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enough for the heater access so we will have to come through the floor
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here the good news is we only have two wires that we have to do that with so the first wire is the one I just
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talked about the heater and then the second wire is going to be the power supply to the renegie hub so the Renegy
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hub is what is going to control and manage all the
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network cables that go into the smart the Energy Smart lithium batteries
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each of those batteries link up and communicate to the hub
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uh the DC toddc mppt charge controllers both of
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those also connect to the hub once all that's plugged into the Hub and we have it powered right here
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we actually have a network cable and we have Bluetooth connection that connects it to the renergy One controller
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the ranger One controller um it's just a convenient way to
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check on the stuff in your system it's expandable so if you want to add some other gadgets to it we're keeping it
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nice and simple so the next customer they can they can do whatever they want to with it running Jelly actually has a
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subscription to where you can do different Services say for example you set up a wi-fi system in your van
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you can connect to it you can monitor your van remotely which is pretty nice
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but uh that system is on the region one the
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range E1 also has three switches that are Wireless if you saw the van Tour on Thomas's van
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his van has about 16 Wireless controls pretty much every circuit in
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his van is wirelessly controlled this fan is going to be uh more simpler in the wireless
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connectivity because all we want to do is turn our lights on inside the van remotely
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we want to turn on our water pump remotely and then we also want to maybe access
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another item and you can change it up in the ring G1 app
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but Reggie one is actually going to give you more information than you could ever use it's going to tell you all the cell
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voltages and health of the battery so you can really get dive down into the
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menus to make that simpler we're adding the addition of a victron battery shunt
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which is just a simple one uh display that's going to tell you the
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status of the batteries so if you don't want to dive into the ringy one system menus you can just
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reference the victron it's very simple it's also Bluetooth as well so you can download the victron app monitor it on
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your phone so you have renji on your phone you have the victron on your phone and then last but not least was the Webasto uh
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Evo 40 and what's special about this is that it
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is it is uh Auto elevation control so depending on
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the your elevation and altitude that changes the air fuel ratio inside
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this so if you go from say your Florida not that you need heat in Florida but
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let's just say here in Florida it's going to operate at a certain air fuel ratio as opposed to if you're all
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the way up in the mountains of Colorado it's going to be different so this will automatically adapt to that you don't have to worry about it it's
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all behind the scenes but the Bluetooth capability allows it to
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continue to be a wireless device so it's 2023 you know pretty much
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everything is going to have an app and be Wireless so you know why not um oh we got a
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chat right here let's see what we got hello from Canada enjoy watching the
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floor install thank you so much and if you have any questions let me
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know I'll briefly go over the floor system
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that we're using uh so we are using this is our own system
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so I don't want to say I developed this kind of method of the lattice structure
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on the bottom and the kill mat a lot of people are using that however uh this is
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kind of the the layers that I like to have in a van we're using the 50 mil kill mat on the
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bottom that's the sound deaden the bottom of her van to kind of reduce that road noise as much as possible
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we're using these quarter inch pieces of lattice stripping and what that does is
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that combined with the kill mat and the adhesive using Loctite Marine PL Marine adhesive
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that allows us to distribute the pressure or the load from the foam and the floor
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so you don't have those soft spots in the floor so regardless of this being called rigid
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foam board you can still compress it uh it is pretty nice it has a
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compressive strength of 15 psi so that means on a one by one inch square this
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thing can withstand 15 pounds of pressure uh which is pretty pretty good
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but it's not perfect so you want to make sure you help this uh do the best job I
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can and by adding these lattice strips in the floor you get a chance to make sure it's not
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soft uh then that brings us to our plywood we
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have half inch plywood and we're going to be coating that with a special adhesion promoter
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designed for an epoxy application so technically you can just put epoxy on
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the wood but it may get brittle and not adhere well so
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to make sure that this is a excellent adhesion we have a product from Sherwin-Williams that is designed
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I keep messing it up it's either Sherwin-Williams or Benjamin Moore I'll find out later but
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um that special bonding primer allows it to adhere properly it's specifically
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designed for wood and epoxy application so we are going to coat the top of this floor when we get
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done with that and that'll prep it for our lawn seal flooring which is our highly durable
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flooring it's the same floor that's on airplanes the little coin floor
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and it's going to bring in our theme of this van this kind of uh black dark gray
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bamboo that type of vibe it's going to tie everything together
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and then once that's finished we got our power system that's already assembled on the bench we're going to bring it in
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we've already plumbed or drilled the holes for our water tank drain and vent
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so we don't have to drill anything else in the floor which is nice if you have anything you need to drill
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in the floor do it before you put the floor in because it's hard to really do a proper rust preventative if you had
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the floor covering it we do need to build 80 20 cage for the
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or the frame for the water tank but it's very simple it's you know four pieces of
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80 20. a bunch of brackets and just it's easy uh and then we can bring in our kitchen
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galleys our fridge and then we'll kind of go from the bottom to the top finishing off with our overhead cabinets
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our Dometic RTX 2000 um yeah we'll be going pretty well here
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what we're covering today in this live stream are the these floor bracing supports and
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uh I don't know I just made that up what this does is
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we're gonna we need this for our pull out tray I've seen a couple trays on YouTube and
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uh my concern is that the trays are just bolted into the floor with maybe like
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wood screws or something like that and they're not actually through bolted through the floor so if you can imagine
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say you have a Dometic uh fridge
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like a you know a cooler style and you got a bunch of climbing gear or a mountain bike or something like that that's a lot of weight so that full
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extension drawer slide that goes out to your van that looks really cool you need to make sure that the frame of
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it is through bolted through your van because there's a lot of stress put on whatever you're using to mount it
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um and so what we're doing is we're using uh six grade eight bolts we're
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doing two in the back this is the high leverage point so this is where you know if somebody sat on it or whatever if you
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did not do this it could rip out of the floor and then we got two in the front and that's really just to keep it from you
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know coming uh lifting up I believe with the six grade eight bolts
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we won't have to do anything else the frame from the Flatline vanco pull out tray is very strong so we should be good
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but if we do we can just supplement with some screws into the the floor which is okay
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but you need to have some type of brace like this so what we're doing today is we are
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installing one two here uh we're going to be cutting this foam
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and we're going to be installing two pieces of one inch aluminum that's going to allow us to make sure
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the seam right here is Flawless and that over time it doesn't shift and then you have that little bubble in the floor
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some people don't care about that but I don't I don't want a bubble on the floor
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um I want it to be nice and clean for the life of the van
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so we're going to be doing that to begin with this part over here
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we have uh we have our bowls there's a 3 8 3 8 inch bolts here
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and what I've done is I've pre-drilled this
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so that I can put it on top so this is not actually where it's going to sit I'm just doing this so that I can
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take my uh razor blade here and I can cut the foam
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so I'm going to use this as a guide and then I'll kind of show you guys what what I'm cutting out
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now it is true that you could have done I could have done this before I glued the foam in
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but it's easier to do it like this because I have this
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metal piece as a guide and then the foam is not going to move at all I
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mean it's it's in there forever
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but what I'm going to do here is I need to make sure that I'm gonna put this in
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and then on the back side here is where I'm gonna have my little cut out to do my wire run
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and that way I can just go across here and I can pull these wires so I had this 12 volt
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power supply for the renergy Hub as well as this two wire
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for the obasto heater so that's going to go probably just going to go right behind
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there so I'll just cut out like a triangle piece almost and then that way
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I can just lay it in here and then I'll just put masking tape over
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it so it doesn't pop out and then the floor will just go on top of that and then these will be protected
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so let's go ahead and keep cutting out our foam
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and I will take a brush because I am touching I am cutting into the
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metal of the van not really meaning to it's just I need to make sure I'm cutting all the
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way through and I can already feel myself hitting it so just like we've done in the past we've
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got a little paintbrush and our Krylon Fusion paint and we're just going to we'll clean it
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with some denatured alcohol and we'll go ahead and do our
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representative even though it's inside the van
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and it's probably not going to be a big deal always do Rust preventative because you're never
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you're never going back to it
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so now that we scored that pretty well we're going to take these bolts out
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so there it is it's just a piece of one inch Square tube Square tube aluminum
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and it's from Lowe's it's a thin wall but it's it's very strong somebody was asking about the wall thickness
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and it's this is uh I think a lot of stuff I do in the band
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is a little Overkill anyway but I just I want to make sure that
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uh it's it's how I believe it it should be done
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again don't worry that you're cutting in to the damn floor
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it's okay we're going to do our rust preventative but we want to make sure we have a nice clean cut for this
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so that the piece of aluminum just slips right in
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all right so you may need a chisel and that's just
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to break up the foam
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so if you take your time you're gonna have a nice super clean Edge
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eventually I would get another camera so I can have you guys in here in the van with me but
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you guys can see pretty good on this camera
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plus this gives you a chance to see how well the Marine adhesive is is holding and it
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looks it's doing a really good job it's completely bonded it's completely bonded to the uh
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the foam board
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so just using the Chisel this allows you to get that adhesive that you just used off
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of the van
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and I do like how it's hard to get off because it just shows me that
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that Marine adhesive is an excellent product to use for this application
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and it hasn't been a full 24 hours so the inside of that adhesive is not fully cured I want to put some gloves on
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get that stuff off my hands and let's see if I can bring you guys in
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a little closer
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all right that's as close as you can get
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see there we go should be pretty good
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yeah it says I'm look at this adhesive we've got the outside's fully cured but we put a
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lot on here the inside's not yet but that's okay
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because again like I said it has not been 24 hours and I need a rag so I do not
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get this everywhere
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foreign
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[Music] yeah I'm glad I'm doing this now this adhesive is actually extremely good
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foreign
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foreign
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Heights even so that's why the Chisel is important to scrape off
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any of this uh material
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all right so we got everything done so we're going to do a little test fit here
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fit like a glove
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it's got a little bit more to shave off on the side
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all right
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foreign
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foreign
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that is a that is a excellent fit that's
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the fits so good I almost don't even want to use adhesive on it
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so I think I'm gonna wait until I get the floor modified so we still need to cut
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out this Edge right here on the floor so we're just going to call this one
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done and we can move on to the other one
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should just move over a little bit
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I know people hate it when you when they use the wall power tools as a hammer but
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I it's just that's what I do
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all right
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actually for this one I might get a real Hammer I need to move that over just a
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tad
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oh second mute the mic real quick
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okay I'm back that was pretty loud
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of course this one 's gonna be the funny one so we'll just see if we can
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get down there
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all right let me get some more tools
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and again if you guys are watching just uh if you have any questions feel free to
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put those in the chat
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foreign
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we got that one through the floor we'll just have to chase the uh that hole one more time before we
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finalize this um
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all right so we got one done we're gonna go to the next one but we are going to take this out and use this one as a
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reference
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for our whole spacing
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okay
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it's such a tight fit I'm telling you guys I don't need to use
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glue this is how precise that cut was
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if I don't say so myself all right
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okay that's good
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interestingly
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hmm
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yeah interestingly these holes are precise as I say I am these are not
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exact I can't tell if it's the uh
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foam or
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angle at which I drilled them
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probably right okay we need to drill the foam out
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I've got the drill over here in the drill press
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we need a drill
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okay this is where the hole is supposed to be
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let's see if that worked [Music]
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foreign
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meet you guys one second
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okay we're back foreign
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so we had to do a little bit of convincing on that one so let's put the bolt back in
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all right that's where we want it right there we're gonna take our permanent marker
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Trace that out
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wherever the permanent marker goes I tell you I buy a whole bottle of 10
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or a whole case of tin ten markers and they all disappear
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there's at least 30 permanent markers in this shop just all over the place
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the only problem with having to do what I just did is now
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I've got a vacuum clean up all these filings they're
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aluminum it's not the end of the world I just don't like it like I'm all over
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the place
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so here is this one so when we get done we'll be able to
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get this brace and put it in and then all we have is
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just the two here
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so the goal of this live stream is to finish and glue in all of the these aluminum
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pieces because I can't I can't put the floor down until
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all the aluminums in here because I need it to when I sandwich the floor down
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I want that level to be just uh as flat as possible that's the whole
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the whole goal all right I should have taken those bolts out
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you need to use them as a reference
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there we go the one thing I noticed when I was cutting this out earlier just a second
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ago is that the I tend to turn in with my knife so
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that's why the fit was so tight be very careful when you're doing this
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with a a blade like this
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these blades I use are olfa it's a Japanese
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company is still blade
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[Music] the best ones I've ever found and surprisingly
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you can bite at Lowe's it's olfa
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okay we got the back side
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front side
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that feels pretty good
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let me put this glove back on
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that's a trick right there blow some air into it and it will
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you turn the ends up back inside out and reuse it
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foreign
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yeah the fact I'm having to scrape it with a chisel off the metal ribs is really good
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I used to use silicone when I changed over to the Marine adhesive
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because of humble Road if you watch his channel and I didn't think it'd be that
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effective on metal you think more like fiberglass and stuff like that
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it's really good
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I mean this is not even fully cured and it's already I have to scrape it off
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[Music]
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we are 99 cleaned off the reason you want to clean so well is
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uh I guess that's the only downside of being so precise is that
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if you don't give it room to foreign
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you get so precise you actually create a problem because you're you don't have any leeway
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any way to like wiggle it in there so what I'm doing right now is I'm taking a little more of aggressive chunk out the
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side because uh you guys saw earlier that was just the fit was so good that it was
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actually hard to work with
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come on I would say next time I
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I may do this I'll make sure that I do not put the
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adhesive under the places where I know I'm going to be cutting the foam out
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I knew I was going to be doing this but just Envision it being much faster
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oh yeah see yeah so that that's uh that goes out of there really fast
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yep just like that excellent
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I'm holding the lift I mean my your lift is uh
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that's not no problem this one over here
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that was nice clean flush this one over here we've got a little bit of a
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little bit of a height probably has to do with the um
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amount of weight I put in here in the middle I mean it's a sixteenth of an inch it's nothing crazy but you know
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okay so I'm gonna mute the uh the feed really
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quick because I need to uh drill
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okay I'm back and you may be wondering why am I taking
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a piece that was perfect back here and kind of wallowing it out um it's okay because remember this is going
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to have a piece of plywood on it and then it's going to have a piece of you know the metal
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and a washer so this is just more of a just think of it as a spacer
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but I only have to make two of these so what I'll do is I'll probably drill this out with a bigger uh size
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so this will be this will maintain the same and then this size will actually be a bigger so
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the drill bit I'll use will be um actually I'll probably just use this one and then just
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kind of wall it out like I did the other ones it looks like
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maybe I've got a yeah a little more adhesive over here I can take off
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get that as flat as possible and I do need to get probably a wider
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chisel we're gonna do this one more time uh
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on on this side we won't have to do it for this back side because obviously we don't have any adhesive on there
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okay
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Perfect all right so we're gonna do is get the vacuum
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clean up our mess get a new piece of aluminum bar
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cut and we'll be we'll be right back
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foreign stay with me guys I'll be muted just for a second I'm going to vacuum this up and
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then I'll be back
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all right if you guys a little bit of sound here I'm going to
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uh prep the aluminum tubing for the miter saw and then I'll be back in the van
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all right we're going to drill press setup now we just need to take this piece
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we're going to replicate it over here
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going to the other side of the shop it's very hot over here
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all right
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so I will I will meet you guys in just a moment
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so I'm using OBS for the stream and they have a bunch of options uh
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they had an like a sound limiter if everybody knows
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how to do that you can put that in the chat all right I'm going to mute here for a second cut
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this piece I'll be right back
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foreign
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okay that's done just going to hop on over to the drill press and then I'll be back in just a minute
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foreign
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we're back we're back we're back
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foreign
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we're going to clean up these two holes we'll be done with this and go ahead and move on to the next part
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we will have to cut some more pieces so we'll be muted again but
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in a minute
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okay I'm gonna meet you guys just for a second I'm gonna clean out these holes I'll be right back
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okay back so this next section what we need to do
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is uh
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let's see I need to get a board so I can lay down
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the board uh I'm just gonna meet you guys I'm just gonna blow this little bit of dust out
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all right let's see if we can find a piece of wood that's going to allow us to kneel down on the foam
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if I have one this size that I need
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this might be enough
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I'm just going to use the other board right here but uh I got adhesive all over it so
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we can do that oh this works all right let's get a tape measure and let's measure the width of this
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foreign
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we're working with four foot it's a four or six just I think six foot
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stick yeah six foot six
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always use a knee pad
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all right we need so we got 53 but we don't need
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actually 53 because this is only being supported
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at the um I just want to do it at the metal
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supports of the van so we're going to cut two pieces and
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they're going to be
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going to be uh 50 inches we're gonna do 49
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I'm gonna do 49 and a half because I want to keep it away from our
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wires on the right side so I don't want any chance of these shifting and
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touching that so we're going to keep it 49 and a half so two pieces 49 and a half
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I'm gonna cut those and then I will be right back
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all right yep I forgot to turn the uh I think on
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mute sorry I'll be right back
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okay coming back I found my markers there's like three of
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them by the miter saw all right so this right here
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is the concept that or the that's what humble Road uses in his fans
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or some of them for these seams uh he uses it primarily for support
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um which it already does provide support that's the whole point but for me I want to make sure that this lip transition is
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it doesn't move on us and create that
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effect where
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we had the I call it a bubble in the floor so I'm going to Mark where we want these
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things to end foreign
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and then we're going to take one away and the second one right here
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this is the one that we're going to line up to our Edge
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and then we're going to take a marker
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and I'm going to use a different method to cut this out
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because I want a little bit of speed and you guys can
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you might be able to tell what I'm going to use so I'm going to use this
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and I'm going to mute this and I'll be right back
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so that was much faster as you guys can see uh uh yep it's still a frame
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I'm just going to take this and get the rest of it out
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okay
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it's so it's just again so good to know how well this adhesive is working
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not that I should be surprised but
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this stuff's working great
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foreign yeah we're at this end where it got a chance to really cure
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it's amazing so I didn't glue it here thankfully
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I should say I stopped gluing right up to that edge
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so guys this is a cheat sheet in itself you see what not to do
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all right now we just got to take the Chisel I'm gonna see if I get a big I got a bigger chisel
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make this a little bit faster
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all right
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foreign thing about tools is uh this one right
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here is was my grandfather's chisel well so
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I don't know it's it was hard it'd be hard to find something like that at Lowe's
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nice wide chisel still sharp as ever
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thank you
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foreign
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coming from the back side like that and just snip it off on that side
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okay make sure you guys can still see what's happening
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move the camera back just a little bit
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yeah just be careful with the chisels
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you're never supposed to Chisel towards you
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yeah it's just so sharp I went right through the top part of this lattice
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so we'll just use a little bit extra glue on this seam right here
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Perfect all right now billion's always exciting because you're
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usually always building towards a goal and even simple ones like this where I'm
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just trying to put a piece of aluminum in can be fun because once you get it all prepped nicely
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go ahead and give one of our pieces a try
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let's see look at that Perfection excellent
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okay we got a little bit of adjustability there to make sure we get it right where we want it
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all right so that one's going to go here and then this next one is going to go
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obviously directly behind it and so we're actually going to take uh
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for the metal metal is a little bit different than the foam um but Humber Road did is he took a flap
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wheel so I've got one and we're going to just we're going to
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get to the metal part of this but the nice thing is we're going to make sure that we put
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enough adhesive on it so it covers it and then we don't have a
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rust problem
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so I'm just going to mark I'm marking where this rear piece is going
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that way we know how far to grind to
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really sanding it's not grinding it's not that aggressive
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all right and we're just going to label this one and two
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not that it matters but
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okay so that's our two um
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I'm going to spend just a little a couple more minutes just getting this adhesive off a little bit more
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take some denatured alcohol and clean this up really well before we actually uh
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these are flap wheel on this because I don't want the uh
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it's one of those adhesive gumming up flap well
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questions
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another good news is we don't have to do the laminated I mean the PVC strip
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obviously because they don't need to be ground down the metal ones are the only ones so
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that's it so let's uh mute you guys one more time get the vacuum cleaner on I'm going to
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clean this up and get ready for next step
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foreign all right one thing I didn't mention is
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not only do we want to clean the uh
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van but we want to make sure you clean the aluminum
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because it's got all kinds of maybe oils or grease
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um it doesn't look like it but you'll see here in a second we got a white
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yeah that adhesive does not
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there's no man if you use your alcohol it's no match for that uh
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stuff so our flapper is going to get a little gummy but that's okay
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um so let's get a cleaner side here so I can show you
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what we're doing with the that's okay let's use this side
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so we have a piece right here it looks shiny but we're just going to take it
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and you guys can see
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might as well clean all of it we don't know what side we're putting down even though we numbered it
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so that one's clean
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there you guys can see how dirty they are
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okay so those are all cleaned let's get our drill with the flap wheel attachment
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make sure I can find it that'll be our next step
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using a craftsman three inch flap wheel
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okay that's what we're using
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I'm gonna mute you guys and do this real quick be right back
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foreign back all right now we're just going to clean
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it up that was an easy process
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we've got all these ribs here which are nice and shiny denatured alcohol cleaning them off
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and go back on the dry part just make sure you don't have any residue
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okay everything looks great
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we're gonna go and we need to get uh the other
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this back piece is finalized so I think we can actually
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put it in clean everything up take a quick inventory on make sure uh
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our electrical cables are where we want them to be and we don't need to
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change their position then we'll be ready to actually glue down the back the back piece
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exciting at that third piece in because this these things were
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not challenging but it's a it was an item on the list that I need to get knocked out so you can see this is what it'll look
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like the nice part is uh we'll Bond everything together
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and then what what we'll do is this uh the wood board so just to show you an example
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so say this is the edge of the plywood it's going to come right
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here just like that
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come just like that and then the next Piece Will
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go right up against this and then what that what that'll do is we're gonna be able to countersink
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these uh sheet metal screws into this so there's they have they have a flat head
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sheet metal screw like a pan head I guess they call it a panhead and we'll be put those into here and
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that way this will be the same level as this and then they'll be no seam
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transition and then over time the rest of the bork and flex here and here but this this Ridge is locked in
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together and so it won't create that that
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ugly seam that you see over time with some other vans uh so that is
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what we're doing there so now what we're going to do is I'm
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going to get the other piece of foam out we're going to cut it
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get it put into place and then keep on going
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so that piece isn't there see what else here
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let's see who is on the live stream
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I called I have two part fours no one two three four okay
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there you go
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all right let me back this up and I'm going to wrap this up just so I can take a quick break
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and don't worry you guys will not miss out on here let me back up
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all right here give me some space
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okay so we have let me stop my time lapse
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we'll wrap up here and then here yeah I need some food I need to grab
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some lunch for lunch what time is it
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um all right let me let's wrap up so we have our aluminum pieces that you
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guys saw we have two in the back
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to counteract the tray so it can be bolted down and so it won't smush the uh
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the foam that's the whole point of those is make sure we can really torque down on those bolts get that really
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a strong connection and not smush or compress the foam we've got our two pieces right here
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I mean let me mute this we've got our two pieces over here
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and then we're going to have another piece right here so what I'll do is I'm going to take a
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break grab something to eat and then when I come back I'll have cut this piece out
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I'll have cut this piece out here for this transition piece because I need to make sure
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I need to see if my wires can move back because my problem is the holes in the
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back needed to be in a location where it's not really being supported by the uh the metal here
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so it's not the best scenario what I also may do
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is I may get I may go to the store and get a sleeve
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so they make these Chrome sleeves that I can actually buy and then see if we've got a 3 8 inch
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version and I'll put that sleeve in here instead of doing what we did over here so if they have a one inch by 3 8 sleeve
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I'll just cut the foam out and I'll put the sleeve done in here that we won't have to mess with anything
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so and if they don't have the sleeve I'm going to get just washers and I'll
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just make washers and I'll have to cut this piece that we just did over here
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then we'll uh we'll have the foam in everything will be nice and level we'll clean everything up we'll do one last
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double check on our wiring to make sure there's not any more wire runs that we need to do that we can't exit access
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after this and then we'll go in and we'll glue our uh
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foam in and then that way all the foam will be glued in and then tomorrow what we'll do is we'll
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take the plywood finish the cuts that we have to do on the corner
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um the cut has to give it gives more relief to the
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obasto heater I cut the board a little a little too close so there's not enough room wiggle room
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and then after so tomorrow when all that stuff dries I think timeline wise
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probably Monday is when we'll put the lawn still flooring in uh because it has to happen Monday
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because Tuesday we have our DIY van one-inch adapter spacer
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so this right here this is for the the RTX 2000 Dometic RTX 2000 AC unit
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so on a Ford Transit if you have the adventure wagon ceiling I calculated that you need
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an inch and a half worth of spacers and uh
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the spacer the the hard spacers so not the soft foam the hard spacer is one inch so you need two and a half inches
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worth of spacing if you have the adventure wagon for the
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uh the vent to be flush so that's my calculation but we'll actually see you
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know what it's going to be on Tuesday but that's got to get in Tuesday so that we can
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get the rest of the stuff in here all right that's the plan so hope to see
1:47:15
you guys in the next live stream make sure you guys uh make sure you bring your questions if
1:47:21
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I call this professional DIY how about that it's stuff that you guys can buy and do at home
1:47:50
um and achieve a professional result so once again hope that helped
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and I will see you guys in the next live stream
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