CHASSIS BOARDS + VCT FLOORING 📏 DIY CAMPER PHOTO BOOTH REBUILD
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- Опубликовано: 6 авг 2024
- 00:00 Intro
00:34 What I've been up to
02:26 Leading edge board
03:43 Center chassis boards
04:47 Trailing edge board
05:07 Wheel well plan
06:12 Constructing wheel well
07:10 Attaching wheel wells
07:40 It fits!
08:08 Chassis boards to frame
08:41 Why we glue
10:01 Deck down
11:30 Tile plan
12:45 Tile install
13:00 Larry's trick
14:09 All done!
This week we are making progress - the chassis boards and flooring are done! I used my favorite VCT tile again, just $15 per box at my local remnant store so the whole thing was just $30, can't beat it!
Watch my last floor install video here:
• $45 for the WHOLE CAMP... 
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Great work.
Thanks for watching!
I love those two cute project managers!
Ha ha, I couldn't do it with out them!
Great video. I really like the work your shop inspector put in at the beginning.
Thanks, Rob! Someone's gotta keep me in check!
It's coming along really well. All you need is a gigantic outdoor air conditioner.
Our channel should have a subtitle. Trailer Trash to Treasure: A Man in his Forties Sweats a Lot.
Definitely seal those tiles, you won't regret it. Thanks for posting Conan
We did, and they are nice and shiny now!
Your doing a fine job Conan. Keep up the great work. Love watching your channel along with Mobiltec.
Thanks for the vote of confidence, and thanks for watching!
I logged in to YT to relax after a hard day of starting the floor on my 19ft 71 Holiday Rambler Vacationer and here you are working on the same thing on a much smaller scale. I think my next project needs to be smaller, lol. Everything requires 2 ppl on mine and my kids are a bit too young yet.
Ha ha, yeah, I can pretty much build one this size entirely by myself, but there's times a second pair of hands would be nice. I think I'd like to do a larger one at some point, but I might have to wait until Simon is a bit bigger so he can help!
I just found your channel and it's very interesting to me because I am renovating a 25 year old camper van at home here on the England/Scotland border. I have previously built a 5 foot by 3 foot camping trailer. As we have such a harsh climate, I coated every wooden subframe member with marine grade varnish to help slow damage due to wet and salt which is used on our roads in winter. I don't know what your winter climate is, or whether you plan to move the camper during your off season, so maybe that would be over the top for your needs. You certainly were brave taking on such a project but the result is fantastic.
Thanks for watching! Kansas has very variable weather, from well below freezing to dangerously hot, but also lots of in between, and that's when we go camping. My rule of thumb is to avoid driving in the rain, because these old jalousie windows weren't designed to keep sideways blowing rain out. The underside dries out reasonably quickly after driving on wet roads and isn't really a problem. Usually, when you find a rotted floor it's because there was a leaky window above it that wasn't maintained properly.
Good luck on your current camper build!
LOL Thanks for the plug Conan. Ya know the only thing I would have done different would be to run those two chassis boards for the wheel wells all the way forward. You now have a huge space underneath with no support on both sides, one being at the entry way. So I would climb under there and add it anyhow just for that reason. Floating those wheel wells like that can't be good. Otherwise good job! Glad to see you using the cutting trick on the tiles. I learned that from a pro who did hundreds of Walmarts.
Happy to share my sources!
I actually did run the inside board of the wheel wells back along the c-channel all the way to where I could tie it into the trailing edge board, but I couldn't do the same in the front because of the way the chassis is built. The forward side of the wheel well does also rest on a piece of angle iron in front of the axle though, so it's at least supported that way, and I don't think it seems too loosey goosey. I'm not a huge fan of the original design though, and I did wind up adding a few other bits of bracing that I installed off camera.
Got a referral from you today, btw!
@@TrailerTrashtoTreasure Yep I'm sending my viewers and students who are building concession trailers to you.
Thanks for that!
Really enjoy your videos. They offer an insight I lack on how these campers are made or re-assembled. I was originally a bit surprised to see you using 2x4 for the floor, but then to see that it insets with the channel for the frame, it makes a lot of sense. Something I hadn't thought of. I'm curious how you finish the bottom. I know you're using this as a photo booth but for something that would see the elements, do you do a flat bottom? Coating? Both? As always, looking forward to the next one.
The 2x4s are actually ripped down to 3" to fit the height of the c-channel frame.
As for the bottom, that's a good question and one I completely forgot to mention in the video! There are a couple of competing thoughts regarding finishing it: one being that you need to coat the wood to protect it from water spray, and the other being that wood needs to be left uncoated to dry out naturally when it gets sprayed with water. I obviously subscribe to the latter opinion.
In my experience these things don't really see much water on the bottom anyway, and honestly I've never had one that's been rotted or degraded from road spray. What rots the floor out is leaking windows and seams that haven't been well maintained and allow water to repeatedly soak and sit inside the camper. So leaving it exposed to the air lets it dry out quickly and naturally, whereas a sealant or coating could potentially trap moisture within the wood, and of course any kind of coating needs to be maintained over time for it to remain effective.
One other point is that while you might find yourself driving on wet roads from time to time, if you're driving a vintage camper in the rain you're doing it wrong. These windows were not designed to keep out rain coming at you at 60 MPH, so you're going to soak your interior.
Thanks for watching!
Have you considered construction adhesive instead of wood glue?
I have, and at times I waffle a bit one way or the other regarding wood glue or construction adhesive. I mostly don't like working with construction adhesive because of the mess and smell, but it's advantages are better water resistance and flexibility which would be a benefit in some cases. Wood glue is generally stronger on clean and tight wood to wood bonds, but I honestly debated not using any glue between the floor and the chassis boards.
Good question, and thanks for watching!
Making this look possible 😅
Anything's possible! It's actually all relatively simple so long as you work in the correct order; there's a reason they built them the way that they did!
Thanks for watching!
Question for ya. Does the Aljo wall framing sit outside of the flooring like a Shasta? Or does it line up right on top of the flooring?
The skirt board of the wall attaches to the sides of the chassis boards on the Aljo, but there is just a bit of the angle iron from the chassis that sticks out for them to rest on as well. Our Play-Mor had walls that sit on top of the floor.
WHAT SIZE CREWS ARE YOU USING FOR THE FLOOR TO FRAME? ALSO DO YOU THINK THE AXIL WAS COCKEYED?
I'm using whatever assortment of screws I have left in my grab box of random screws, lol! But no, I want' to say they're mostly 2 1/2" screws.
I was concerned a bit that the axle might have been messed up, but I took the time to measure carefully and it was perfectly square, it was just a sloppy job they did building it when it was new. I actually saw another similar Aljo a while back, and their streetside wheel well was off center too, so I'm guessing they had a jig in the factory that was incorrectly made, and they never bothered to correct it.