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hey everyone welcome back to the live stream tonight we got some more questions that have been answered on the
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uh YouTube channel so that uh any of the com comments you guys make or questions you ask um I'm starting to go through
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those and chop through those questions um and what I'm doing is I'm putting them into a new Forum that we have so if
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you go to vuer hq.com and you click on
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Forum this is a new form that we have with questions uh or that it's just a
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space that I'm using to answer the questions that you guys have not only on YouTube but the comments questions and
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emails question uh from past customers clients um yeah
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so it's just going to be a place with a bunch of information and uh this is created because it is part of the new
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camper van conversion blueprint course which is out now so you guys can purchase this course
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uh we did an official launch two days ago um but every day we're going to be going over uh not only the course let
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you know what's in the course if you guys are interested um but we're also going to talk
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about new questions that are in the Forum so real quick if you guys don't
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know about the keer van conversion blueprint it is a DIY van build course that I've been working over the past
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year working on over the past year and um yeah it has a ton of stuff
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in here so everything from getting started how to choose your van design and layout of the van offgrid power
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system design fresh and gray water storage insulation sound dampening exterior upgrades and the private online
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community which is the Forum so when you purchase this course you're going to get access to the
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Forum and you'll be able to ask me questions in the Forum as part of the
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course so the Forum that is online this will just be viewable but to people that
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buy the course you get access to answer asking me questions uh directly on the
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form itself so let's take a sneak peek inside
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so you'll can expect uh to see what's inside the course so this is a behind thes scenes look at the course um it'll
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look a little bit different when you purchase it but over here on the left we have different modules to learn from and
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so all the videos right here the one at the top of each of these modules is
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exclusive to the course so you're not going to find this information anywhere else
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um not only that but the lectures have the PowerPoint with them so you can pull
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up the PowerPoint make notes uh yourself um as you watch the video the PowerPoint
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presentation is what I'm referencing as I go through teaching you guys about whatever topic and then if there's some
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supplemental information tools or resources uh at the bottom here we'll have those for example this is is an
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exclusive video only available in the course and it's a video uh doing a real
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life walkthr of inspecting a used van before buying it so uh when John and
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Susan's uh John and Susan reached out to me to build their Adventure van um they had originally wanted to look at a used
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van and see if it was uh something they could buy and then customize after the
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fact and I said you know let me look at the van real quick for you just to see what you're getting into I don't want
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you to get into I don't want you purchasing something that when we go to customize it the van is not in the best
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condition for you to do that and so what I did is I went up to check out the van and I decided to film uh the whole
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entire tour and show you what I was looking for um so I'm not going to spoil
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it too much but if you purchase the course uh this is a start to finish
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video of a whole entire walk through and inspection of a used van and then at the end you can get to see uh my thoughts
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about it which is a I think it's a great video and again it's just a great part
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of the course because it's guiding you to help you start that DIY van build
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Journey so first thing obviously you need to choose a van um then you'll go into figuring out uh the design and
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layout how you want to build out your van and then each step you see we set
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three four five six and seven this is just guiding you through
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through the process um it is recommended kind of going in that order although you don't have to and for example the power
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system Design This is one part of the module that has just a ton of information so um not only does it have
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the exclusive video right here but what I do is I organize all the supplemental information which is basically videos
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and knowledge that I've done in the past and I put it on in one place so you don't have to go run around uh and find
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it all right so that's a quick overview of the course and what to expect when you purchase it if you like to purchase the
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course uh I do have a discount code so let me put that discount code in the
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chat um if you're watching live you get 20% off for joining the live stream and
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checking that out so I'm GNA put the link uh in here really quick see if I can find
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it yeah and then by the way if you guys have any questions DIY van build
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related put that in the chat chat and uh I'll answer it for you guys tonight
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all right so this link going in the chat that gets you 20% off the course um
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visit that link and you can save some money uh the course is very indepth uh I
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added up all the hours of lecture and footage that is in the course and it's
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43 and half hours so if you guys want a deep dive into anything that I'm doing
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the course is the thing to get um and check it out link is in
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description below all right so there's the link um so next what we're doing in
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these live streams is I'm updating the Forum this is the Forum
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again that you're going to have uh access to when you purchase the course and so I'm updating it with all
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the question questions that we've had over the years um really good questions
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questions that have come to us through comments or just direct question questions from uh the Youtube channel so
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we're going to go over four of them uh today and the first one that we're going to go over has to do
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with uh it's a part of the Ford Transit van that um it's interesting part it is the rear
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wire harness that you're going to disconnect in order to either have room for wall panels or
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just to get that wire upper wire out of the way so in the in the Forum as you can
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see this is the
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question uh right here question that was asked is is the
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Ford Transit re rear wire to the driver's side tail light included in the extended harness that goes to the ground
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I'm extending mine but struggling to get enough slack from the tail light cables any advice so I do um fix the question a
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little bit for it to make more sense uh so it's not vague when you guys see the question and so basically what they're
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talking about is uh this video so when I go to answer these questions so down
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here's the answer so when I answer the questions I reference and put the link to the video and actually who asked the
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question question so you can actually click on the video it'll pop up and you can have a reference for what we're
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talking about so the wire that we're talking about is over here on the left hand side and there's three ground wires
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that ground the rear uh pigtail wiring harness for the tail light reverse
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lights third brake light um that sort of thing and why you would want to remove
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or remove this is because uh up here see this uh big wire so this big wire
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harness right here um it gets in the way when you are installing wall panels and you need to take the pressure
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of it so that you can extend it Forward up and uh you need to be able to extend
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it from where it's current position is here so that's where it is currently and we need to move it up here
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and the ceiling so it's out of the way so in order to do that down here at the bottom
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you have these two wires the wire down here with the three uh terminals on it
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that is bolted into the chassis of the van so we unbolt those three bolts and then this wire connector over
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here on the right hand side or just uh above it that
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is connected to the switch over here in the left hand side where this little
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pocket is some some Vans will have this switch some won't it just depends on the
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options that you have um but it all needs to be disconnected and don't worry about this
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plug uh most people that are doing a DIY van conversion are not
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re using their cargo lights that came Factory with the van they're typically
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putting new LED lights in there and putting it on a new circuit so for that
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reason you know this this part of the pigtail just kind of gets taped and
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pushed away into into here you know maybe it's behind some insulation so it doesn't rattle but what's most important
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is these three ground terminals um if you don't ground these properly
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they're very easy to ground all you're doing is putting them together putting a bolt through it a new terminal lug six
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gauge wire and kind of just extend it and ground it to the chassis again uh but don't forget to when you take this
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off put it back on before you start the van up uh I've had issues where I have
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goofed and I forgot to reconnect it and when I forgot to reconnect it the uh
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interior cargo lights the door chime and the like the map lights or like the
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uh the lights that come on like when you open the door um courtesy lights I think it's called
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they met they they look like some of them are shot it's it's because for some reason Ford is grounding them all the
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way at the back of the van um I guess that's just how they had to do their wiring scheme yeah but these three wires once
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you disconnect them go ahead and reconnect them before you turn the van back on or crank the engine uh just so
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you don't have any those nuisance uh faults like I did or that I
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created so once you do that extend it with a six gauge wire I don't know if I do it in this
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video um but pretty much these massive cables
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right here this is what you're trying to ground again um so what I've done is up
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here at the top I've disconnected these white plugs these white wire plugs from
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the LEDs I've electrical taped them and then they'll be pushed up and out of the
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way um let's see
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here don't think I go over any let's see if I go over
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anymore okay so here's this is a good view so these three hopefully you can
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see that my mouse is right here in the bottom left so these three bolts are what you're going to want to undo be
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very careful if you drop them inside that quarter panel it is almost impossible to get them out um even with
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like a magnetic bolt finder uh so just take them out easy
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don't drop them all right so that was the answer to
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that question that question is right here so I just talked about for Transit
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ground wires how to extend the loop and then I also said depending on your Van's year the rear minded light switch it
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might be an option it might not be an option um but yeah that's an example of
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a question that I answered today from the uh from this
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video all right we got three more and feel free to ask any question that you
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have uh other than what I'm doing tonight I'm just going over three more questions so the three more questions
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I'm going to answer on the live stream is what is the correct way to apply Teflon tape to threaded pipe I'm going
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to go over is it possible to build cabinets en counters using wood glue brad nails uh and then adding
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screws um why is the water pump move so far away from the water
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tank so let's go down to the next one uh the question was what is the correct way
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to apply Teflon tape to a threaded pipe should it cover all threads and how many wraps are ideal for secure
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seal um and I did clean this up right here
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where it says like how many wraps um just to make just for the question to make
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sense so what they were asking is uh so here's the video to reference
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so you can just click on the video this is the video that's being referenced and the question was when I take the Teflon
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tape and by the way if the tape says PTFE on it it's the same thing as Teflon
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PTFE is the technical name Teflon is the you know generic what we all say kind of
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like Xerox copies that sort of thing so when I wrap this
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plug um what I did was I put put like a
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little howto guide so you know make sure that it's clean um start at the base
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wrap three to five layers that sort of
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thing uh in this video watch the video and you'll you'll get what I'm doing
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but typically when I put this I'm not only doing the Teflon tape but I'm also doing a it's a company called Rector
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seal uh and it is a softs set food safe
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pipe sealant and what I do is I do two to three reps of the Teflon and then I put one ring of the uh soft set on there
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and that allows me to uh make sure it's a good
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seal and the reason I do that as a backup is because if
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you technically you shouldn't use metal fittings on plastic tanks but with
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what's out there and what's available to us um you know I
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like the metal drain plugs because if you're putting a water hose off and on on the plug you got a lot of wear and
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tear on there and if it's plastic it's just it's just not the best thing I think that's just my opinion but when
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you do use a metal fitting you got to be very careful not to overtighten it because it will split the plastic um
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whether the P plastic is you know if it's in a hot environment and you go to tighten it really tight if you get up to
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colder temperatures that tank is going to con uh contract and put even more
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pressure on the threads so I would say just kind of use common sense on it but
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I know a lot of people actually um maybe they've never done Plumbing before so I completely understand if if it feels
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kind of foreign so I just answered that question with a couple steps and then
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what I did was I went down here to the bottom and just did a little reference
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uh kind of my two cents where I said you know if you are using soft set
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sealant reduce it to two to three wraps um be very careful if you're doing plastic tanks with metal
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fittings and uh don't be too aggressive with you know
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making it tight so what you're going to have to do is as a DIY or anybody that's watching this video you're just going to
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have to learn what works so you're going to need to take your tank put your F drain
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fittings on fill it up with water and see if the tightness and how what method
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that you did if that is uh contributing to a leak or you
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actually did it to where it doesn't leak so that's what I did I just I learned by trial and error and I found out how
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tight I need to make it um so I'm not overtighten it but at the same time it's tight enough so that when the soft Set
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uh and the Teflon and all that work together it it seals it um so that's the answer to that
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question all right we got two more and for you guys that are watching remember you can ask any question while I'm doing
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the live stream next question is is it possible
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to build van cabinets and counters with glue or wood glue brad nails and adding a few screws for Extra Strength what are
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the pros and cons of this construction method so Rod asked this question
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um and uh the short answer is yep you can use uh wood glue nails and extra
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screws for strength um but I want you guys to focus on reinforcing for reinforcing the
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joints and the video that we're referencing here is this one so this is
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when I did a live stream and this is a Brian and Robin's Adventure van and what
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I'm doing here is I'm making sure that uh there's a box that I built and
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it I needed the box to slip inside the two pieces of uh
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the heavy duty drawer slides and so but I needed this box to fit in
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between the drawer slides the drawer slides were a fixed width because the cabinet was uh made by another
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manufacturer and I can't I couldn't change it so not only did the Box have to fit but then I wanted to make sure an
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induction stove fit within the box so the thickness of the plywood that used was half inch um and then I used a wood
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glue brad nails and then what I did did is I took uh angle brackets and reinforced the
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inside um and so Rod was asking me you know is that suitable for building a
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cabinet um my recommendation would be to use Craig screws when you can however uh
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the Craig screws in this situation would have looked really nasty it would have had these big cutouts of like you know
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2in angled drill all throughout it it wouldn't look good it look like a mess
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it'd be strong but it would look like a mess so what I did is I ended up um on
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the inside here uh reinforcing it so what I was doing here you don't see the
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reinforcements right now because I'm drilling the holes and I'm having to take the Box in and out so that I can
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match it up with the uh heavy duty drawer
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slides uh but if we fast forward not sure if I do it in this video or another
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video okay so I must do it in another video when I do the reinforcements
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um but that question came about when I was building this box he was wondering you know how do I support this box more
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than I did with just the wood glue and pin uh I use pen Nails I will say pen nails and wood glue
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uh if you do it right and you clamp it I mean it is incred incredibly strong
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so um that is uh yeah that was a quick
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answer to that I'm wondering if I have the other yeah so this was the original
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question can you build cabinets en countertops that way wood glue brad nails and some
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screws and then when I put the answer in
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here that's what I get so Rod thank you for that question
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um everyone that comes in on the channel you guys always have really good questions and uh yeah I'm finally
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getting to knock them all out now that I got the course finished I can get back to these these questions here all right
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so we got those knocked out let's go to the next one so this question is why is the water
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pump mounted so far away from the tank and hot water heater in this van build does this affect performance or
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uh installation efficiency and the video for referencing
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this question was uh I did another live stream and this is Brian and Robin's
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van and if you see the water pump is in their kitchen galy and the water pump is not near the water tank where you would
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typically think that that's where it needs to be well uh
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you don't have to put the water pump right next to the water tank again even though uh technically you know by the
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book you want the water pump closest to the source as possible uh we're in a van we're not um
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you know trying to pump a river or anything like that so moving it 3 or four feet away from
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the water tank is okay where a pump starts to have
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problems is the uh how high it is from the
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intake so I'm going to back out I'm actually going to go to go into a
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uh um let's see where is that se
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flow so this is the uh pump that I use right here so we're going to look up this exact pump
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42 series SEF
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flow uh pump
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manual okay I didn't plan that that box was
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right there that was actually pretty pretty cool
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okay so let's look at this manual right
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here um and we're going to go look at stuff like this
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uh wish I had see if I can do some highlighting
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this fancy drawing pad right now I'm trying to
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uh if I can change the marker
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okay I'll do that later if you guys can see right here with my uh
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cursor um so I'm looking at where it says
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setup there we go okay so it says setup the pump may be positioned um may be
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mounted in any position if mounted vertically the pump head should be in the down position to avoid leakage into
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the motor casting in the event of malfunction secure the feet but do not compress them overtighten the screws may
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u their ability [Music]
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um okay so it can be mounted in any position and if you guys don't know you
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you probably know this but you can search you can search PDFs by doing contrl F so click on it do contrl F and
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I'm gonna type in
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height so it doesn't come up let's see what else would they
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say maybe vertical vertical
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no anyway we got to look for
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height for
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oh wait here's some
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more so let's type in mounting height
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there you go priming so priming capab not height but priming
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capabilities okay so when you look here
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this is here's the technical stuff you need to learn about when you're you're buying
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stuff for your van so priming capabilities six feet suction lift so it
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is rated for six up to six feet that means you can have the pump six feet
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above and when they say priming capabil capabilities that means if there's air
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in the line and you turn the pump on the pump can overcome the air in the line and create
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enough priming or suction to draw the water up the pipe once you pass Six Feet
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it's going to sputter and it might not prime um so the six feet is the
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height um let's see here
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so that answers the question um this other stuff I'm just showing you Max amp draw is 15 amps fuse needs to be a
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22.5 so 25 amp fuse would be okay for this um and then like if we look at
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these applications for example um ours is see 5542
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yeah so this is ours and just saying four gallons per minute 13 Amp Max draw shut off
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pressures 55 PSI and all those numbers what they what
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they tell you is they tell you how the pump functions um and what its features
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are I like this pump specifically because I don't use this pump with an accumulator and I've never had a problem
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of it uh you know water hammer or anything like that it has a nice ramp up ramp
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down just a really good pump all right what is
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next oh Noah's got a question um so Noah says this may be asked already but is
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the course geared towards 8020 building struggling with hinge ideas in most spots
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um so the course isn't uh let me zoom up here so the course isn't based on only
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8020 construction uh or Wood Construction um what I'm showing you is
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specifically design layout where things go um products to use because if you
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want to use 8020 that works if you want to use Wood Construction you can do that as well um but for the 8020 I know
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exactly what you're talking about with the hinges uh I
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actually I think um I think I think I answered one of those questions on the
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Forum the other
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day yeah if I if you're using 820 it might be good to uh here let me go to
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so I'm going to go to the actual 820 website I'm G to type in
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hinge so if you're using 820 and
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uh if I'm getting off topic from what your talk uh your question is just kind of ask me another question in the chat
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but 8020 does have specific hinges that keep that offset of the hinge and like
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the 15 series 8020 correct so that it's not kind of weird um but what I
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do
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uh so one module that's going to be a bonus module that I'm working on adding
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is going to be uh the upholstery one so that that one was not part of the
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original course but um I want to add it just as supplement
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information and so the reason I'm bringing up upholstery is the way that I
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do my 8020 works or builds is I do the 8020 as the frame and then I take Baltic
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Birch or/ inch plywood I wrap it and then I bolt that plywood to to the uh
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8020 and then typically the plywood is actually what holds the drawer hinges
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and the uh like the clasp that hold the door like the slam latches so the woods
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actually doing all the work um 8020 is just mainly there for the frame now when I did Thomas's
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van so Thomas's van let's see that this actually might help you
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um let me find the
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video so yeah okay I'm gonna find that video Noah give me one second so let me wrap this question up here on the Forum
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yeah so that was the water pump I used and uh if you can keep the water pump as
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close to the water tank that's the ideal World um and yeah keep the pump as close but
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don't worry about moving it because you can move it every Van's different feel free to move the pump as long as it's
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not 6 feet too high it should operate normal all right back to Noah's question
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question um yeah so no so most of the time I'm
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using standard hinges you know I'm going to uh I'm using cabinet hinges from lows
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I'll go to Low's and I'll get a cabinet hinge um for my drawer slides uh I'll go
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and use drawer slides at Lowe's are terrible the hinges at Lowe's are okay because
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they're they're normal cabinet hinges they're they're pretty pretty heavy duty but the drawer slides that's where you
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want to go to uh where did I get those
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um let me see if I got that in the shop I I got them from so
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Blum Blum hinges are the high-end really nice ones but there's this new uh it's
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not a new company but there is a woodworking company that made their
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own version of Blum hint uh drawer slides and they're really good
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uh trying to think what the name of that company
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is after getting done with the two van builds this year my shop is it's all all
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flipped around so this is a what is that woodworking
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company woodworking
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let's see what is the name of it Rockler there you go okay so
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Rockler is what I use um for the drawer
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slides so let me here I'll show you me sign in here
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oh you said Blum in the yeah you said Blum um yeah let me go to my uh
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history okay so the 18inch Rockler here I'll send you a link in the chat
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okay so these are the under mount drawer slides that I use they're awesome these things are awesome when I first thought
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about doing this I thought they were really hard to install um to be honest
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undermount drawer slides in my opinion are easier they make more sense because when you're
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put him in your van you can drill them into that wood um or you can you could
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bolt them to 820 you could do that too um I'm not sure how soon you're going to
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be working on your van but uh in a few in a month or so um I may be working on
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redoing my van and I have a 8020 frame uh that I Fab up up but it's just
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sitting in the corner and I'm going to put drawers in it and stuff like that so I'll use the method of taking these
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under mount drawer slides I will drill this out and bolt it
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to the wood panel um and then the front face I'll
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just do a face frame bolted to the 820 and then the drawer fronts will
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attach to my drawer boxes so
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um so the so know the content you're trying to find is uh this is this is
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what you're looking for you would be interested in my videos on John and
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Susan's build so go to Van Builder HQ go to live and then just look for
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green so anything that's green painted um like this one for
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example so this you can see I'm not using uh
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I'm not using a Ford Transit I mean sorry I'm not using 8020 um I'm just using wood this is a
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wood uh cabinet I built from scratch in the shop on the table saw and I used it
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glue and Craig screws to bolt the whole thing together and see here is those
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uh uh drawers so they're just they're just screwed straight into the the
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Baltic Birch I do recommend using Baltic Birch I would not recommend using plywood from Lowe's don't do that Baltic
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Birch has the hardness is what really holds the screw in the wood the stuff at Lowe's is just it's
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just too soft to uh for my Rec for a van build per
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se um let's get to
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uh vesa here building out Ford Transit need to secure three Captain chairs in
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the back your thoughts on a smart floor versus bolting down the appropriate L
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Trak all right let me send this link here for
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Noah yeah so Noah check out check out the builds here
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um and I think that will like this video that I just put in the chat that'll help
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guide you and if you want to do maybe Wood versus 8020 um but yeah I'm going to be doing live
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streams every day so if you want to come in the live stream tomorrow 8 o'clock Eastern Standard Time bring me some more
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questions I'll help you with uh any questions you
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have um okay so I'm just gonna pivot here to vesa's
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question uh the question is about smart floors bolting them down
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with uh versus both of them down with the appropriate L track so my opinion on that
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is uh the smart floor is really good uh one
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if you have the budget uh and two if you don't really care that much about your floor being
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insulated regardless of the air gap or whatever they say when you have that
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aluminum floor glued in um it's still not going to be as
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uh insulative as if you have actual foam underneath there um as far as uh so
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smart floor is good again if you're not using your van if if if you don't care about the thermal the cold floor being a
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thing so smart floors if you have the budget it's pretty straightforward ready
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to go to put chairs in now what I've done on customer Vans
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when I'm doing L track installs is uh typically the L track would be only if I
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if my customer wants to be able to move the chair to a different location in the van if we've already built the van out
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and we got the bed system kitchen Galley and there's a fixed location for the chairs uh what I'll do is I'll through
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bolt the chairs to the chassis um and I don't use l Trak I just find the spot
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where it's going to live and I bolt it through the chassis and that is where it stays and what I do is I bypass the uh
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the insulation and everything so that when I put the chair in it's metal to metal and that's for me that's just
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safety um but if you wanted to you could kind of have like a hybrid where uh you put
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the L track in uh as long as you uh know how to bolt
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it in safely um usually have my drawing pad set
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up but uh yeah let me know if that answers your question I'm GNA get
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my little drawing pad out and if you want to go a little bit deeper I can
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sketch out what I'm talking about for
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you this is good guys um the more questions the merrier
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that's what the live stream is for it is to answer your
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questions and also introduce you to the the the van DIY van build course
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so um
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so while you guys are thinking up some more questions I'm going to plug in this
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little pad that I got here
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um believe it or not the eltrak supplier that I use uh there's a
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company um it's us Logistics what is the name of this cargo
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control us cargo control let me see let me figure this out
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so if I need and this is not sponsored or anything like that but if I need uh
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like legit stuff um I go to us cargo control uh what I mean legit
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is specifically the L [Music]
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Trak uh this the accessories so I don't like buying these accessories
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off Amazon I like buying them off of us cargo control
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um for lra that's not a safety device like a seat it's more for uh like
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hanging backpacks or something like that I'll go and buy the LTR off of Amazon um but if I'm using it for a seat
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or something uh more serious I'll go to us cargo control and I'll I'll look at this um um the one
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that I like to go with is it's called a aluminum flanged Airline style track and
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the reason is it's flanged right here so be careful when you're ordering the L TR
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um not that it's not safe but if you buy the standard you're going to get something
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like this um and it's got a big see it's a big hump so when you put it on to your
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apply wood floor you're going to have this big old hump you're going to trip over or you can't move stuff over easily
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so you my opinion is you don't want this you want uh the recessed
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track um because the recess track is going to give you that ability to embed
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it and so my recommendation is see it's 48 so it's almost right at a half
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inch um so what I would do on this is below this
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floor I would uh I would do my half inch
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flooring and then what I would do is I would router out that half
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inch um uh or you could just cut out with the jigsaw before you know but what you want
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to do is you want this metal L track to touch the metal of the chassis of the van that's the goal that's my personal
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opinion because you want the bolt that goes through here that grade eight bolt
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Automotive grade bolt to come through Bond uh Mount the metal to metal underneath
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the Van have those two things bolted together and that way you know it's a true
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connection uh I've seen so many vans that shows that they just take a couple
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of wood screws and drill the eltr into the van floor or
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they'll take sheet metal screws and drill the sheet metal screws into the van
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chassis uh to me that's a no no because when you use a sheet metal screw the part that Taps the hole it the
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hole is too actually too wide so the sheet metal screw is actually kind of barely holding um it's great for you
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know like a tin roof or something like that but but for holding seats in a van that's not safe so uh what I do is I put
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a bolt through here um the only downside of the bolt is that um you know it will
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have a hump on the inside but you can easily just move the chair over it just kind of plan
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accordingly uh long story short make sure it's metal to metal and kind of go from there
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um and let me here I'm going to put this
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link put this link here into the chat
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and I'm also putting a link to the camper van course that I just put together so this is a 20% off coupon for
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the DIY camper van build course so if you need some help guiding you and you
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want to go through that course um I've got a little behind the scenes here just
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real quick that I'll show you um
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so when you get into the course it'll look kind of like this but basically we're going through these
51:35
modules so we've got a course introduction uh and then I have these lectures that walk you through um all
51:43
these parts of the van so how to choose your van whether you're buy new or used design and layout how to design your van
51:50
that's going to fit your knees but do it efficiently so that you're not uh doing
51:56
a layout that's not going to work you don't want to get yourself in a situation where you work on like the bed
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and the kitchen Galley and you don't plan out for other accessories and then once you get to a certain point of your
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build you're not able to fit those in your van so we go over that um we do a
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deep dive into flooring install and then I have a six part series down
52:21
here from John and Susan's van build and this breaks out all the details of the
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flooring um I even go through uh there's actually four holes
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in this flooring and this pertains to to vesa's question but I show you how to plan for
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those uh grade8 bolts coming through the floor uh so what I do
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is those I've draw with a marker kind of where I'm laying those out I pre-drill
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those holes and have it come up through the wood floor and then when I go to do my lawn seal Marine vinyl I know where
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I'm going to come up through the floor and Pierce the vinyl but do it neatly so I don't tear it
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out um so that can be helpful just to think about the L TR as well um but yeah
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these are good questions because I may add uh I do have videos on eltrak on the
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live stream from past videos but um it's kind of buried you know in the hundreds of live streams I've done so so tonight
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I might kind of resurrect those I might go find them and do like a detailed L track video it sounds like you guys have
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a lot of questions on elre that I like to use what I recommend how I like to
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how I recommend installing it um some other parts of the course insulation and sound
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dampening now as you see here there's always a video at the Top This is a this is an exclusive video that uh you can
53:54
only get through the course and that that's it's exclusive lecture going through um some stuff that is not
54:01
available on the channel or the live streams um we also go through offgrid
54:07
power system design and then I've got a lot of breakout videos of installing Shore
54:12
power solar power systems you know wire crimping all that good stuff and then
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got fresh and graywater systems showing you how to do plumbing and then ending
54:24
with exterior accessories um so that is that is the course and a nutshell and
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if you guys are interested all you got to do is go to camper van van Builder HQ
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click on course and you can go ahead and purchase purchase it today don't forget
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there's a link in the theuh chat for 20% off uh because you guys are checking out
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the live stream tonight all right enough of that um yeah
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do you guys have any more questions on the L track or cabinets or hinges I'm G
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see if I can find there's one I'm G try to find that L Trak video while we're
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letting the stream get some questions coming
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in let's see if I can find some more videos for
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let's see I did have I did have the support mounts for
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the flooring I did on the Ford Transit Adventure van so I think I got him right
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here okay V if you're still on here this is uh if you can see down here at the
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bottom of the van I have insulation uh but there's these aluminum
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runs there's two right here and then there's one right back here and what they're doing these two aluminum 1 in
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square tube aluminum bars is they are making sure that when I mount the drawer
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slide later in this build that when I compress the uh grade8 Bolt to mount the
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drawer slides which would be the same thing as eltrak um it doesn't compress the foam insulation it it keeps it rigid
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so if you still wanted to insulate the floor and then you wanted to use the uh
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half inch floor like another half inch up um that would be kind of a method to
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uh to do
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all right guys I'm going to hop online here real quick and show you uh one more
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free item that I've got that is the DIY van build cheat sheet so if you
57:52
guys are looking for products uh that I use in the shop what I've done is I've
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created this uh DIY van build cheat sheet and it has over 250 items that
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I've bought on Amazon that have been shipped to the shop and are they're what I use um so there's all kinds of bolts
58:11
nuts a lot of 020 Hardware uh mounting so like stainless steel bolts and
58:17
fasteners for the 8020 it's got uh lots of fuses it's got solar panel Renegy
58:24
components um yeah just a lot of parts that I've bought in the past for the Vans it also has a list of tools that I
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use and uh so over here and another live stream I'm going to get to uh these
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tools so we'll do a different live stream for this but I've got hydraulic crimpers for the wire lugs that I use
58:46
um for doing the really like big you know two o 4 o cables so we'll talk
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about that in a different stream um but yeah uh besides the course this
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uh is something that I think would help you guys uh in the short term uh just
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getting this and checking out the products that I have um but again yep if you want to deeper dive the uh the course is now
59:15
officially out all right guys if we don't have any more questions I'll be on here for about
59:21
one more minute to see if anything comes in um awesome question T night look
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forward to seeing you guys hopefully tomorrow uh with some more questions on doing a DIY van build I'll be happy to
59:34
uh answer those questions so bring them on um in the meantime make sure you guys
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um yeah and we have uh we'll have some more stuff coming out I've got more questions that I'll be answering
59:57
tomorrow in the live stream so look for five more questions that have been asked
1:00:02
by you guys on YouTube getting answered and being put in the Forum um there we go there we go vesa
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thoughts on headliner shelves seems like they might get in the way of airbags good
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point do I have a video nice
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uh I get I get a video on that I think I That Should Be My slogan I need a
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t-shirt it says I've got a video on that
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um I know I have a video that I'm working on that let me see if I can find one so while I'm looking for this video
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I'll answer your question so on a Ford Transit the airbag the airbag is uh
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right over the door frame and the the airbag blows down and the grab handle is
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right here and the mount for the Shelf is right here
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so as far as I know uh I don't see how it interacts
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with the airbag um just the way that the airbag is mounted and the way it
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deploys um the one thing I will say about headliner shelves is that they
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need to be light because the grab handle you use two of the bolts to
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install the headliner shelf one bolt is a threaded bolt into sheet metal the
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other one is just a decorative screw it's just a screw that holds the
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upholstery up it doesn't actually it shouldn't be used for weight but I know
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a lot of people that uh buy the um headliner
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shelves they make the mounting bracket to use that so that is just an Insider
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uh okay I don't think this
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shows maybe let's check out this one um guys
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there's thousands of hours of videos that I've done on this channel so if you're new to the channel go to the live
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stream Tab and dig through those videos the finish videos I don't have so many
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finish videos I have hundreds of live stream videos so videos like you're watching right here
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um so vesa question right here
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is see if I can get out of the way of the
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camera okay and how do you how can we I can't
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zoom in so we're looking right here this is where we're looking
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uh so the airbag is I I don't I don't think it affects it because this right
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here where the the handle is the Shelf is if you that's where the mounting locations are is the Shelf is always
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above above the uh airbag let's see
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yeah so the airbag I don't know if you guys can zoom in and see that this is where the airbag is so the Shelf is up
1:03:39
here so they're they're SE they're separate so when the airbag deploys it it blows out this bottom piece of the
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foam and the Shelf is independent of that the Shelf is on the other side of
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the handle not the bottom side um cuz by the way you have to
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retain this Ford factory shelf um if you put a if you put a shelf in
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because I don't know why they do this the Ford factory Shelf has the microphone for the handsfree well that
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kind of makes sense the lights but it has the uh airbag circuitry uh plug in it um and so you
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have to unplug all that when you
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uh we don't have to unplug it I had to do it because I actually I broke one of the tabs in the
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uh where the lighting switch is so I popped it out um and one of the plastic
1:04:41
tabs broke off and I had to replace it but through that I found out um that the
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airbag light and uh all that stuff is is in that
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circuit so so vesa I don't think it is going the uh
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it will not get in way of the airbags um here we go that's a better that's a
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better view so this is just a a flap around the airbag of some uh
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upholstery but you see this little cavity right
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here uh when it when the airbag goes it's a curtain so it goes it blows down
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downward um this handle actually would protect it from the shelf that goes right
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here uh but if you're going to do a shelf just keep it light you know insulative covers can go up there don't
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hold don't do what others have done and build like a wood box with a hinge and
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you can like loading stuff up in there that's not smart um and when I talk about van weight
1:05:53
safety in the course I always point out that you need to make sure that
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um just think about getting possibly getting into an accident how is everything you're going to in your van
1:06:05
where is it going to go when you get into an accident have you mounted it in a way that it's bolted through the
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chassis so it doesn't go anywhere so that's kind of a big safety item that I try to talk
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about Guys these are excellent questions um yeah I'll stay on here I'm going to
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go uh let the dog out for a second and I'll be right back so give me give me some
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questions when I get back on the stream in just a minute come on
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all right guys I think that's it we are going to end the stream tonight um thank you guys so much for
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watching we'll be back here tomorrow 8:00 pm Eastern Standard Time bring your questions and uh we'll see you on the
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