by webbedouin » Sun Jul 03, 2005 1:11 am
Though i've been getting close to finishing my first, have already started contemplating the second and the third.
Got into this as a second business and really, really like the work. Solving problems, using lott’sa different tools (think my tool budget is larger than parts so far) and the creativity. Figured from the start that I’d sell the first two and hang on to the third or forth. First 4x8, second 5x10 with power tapped of the car alternator, third will be solar or wind powered.
There are techniques that would be interesting to explore. First aluminum skin (though I‘m real partial to woodies), a tear drop swamp cooler strikes my fancy and would like to explore some interesting shapes, doors and windows. While endeavoring to cram more and more stuff in.
Some things I’d do sooner in the process, left the hatch & windows ‘till I needed to do them and lost much time on both. Could have worked on them sooner, bit by bit, and not have gotten logged down in them before proceeding on other projects.
When the floor got in, decided almost immediately that 26 inches for knee room was much better than 22. So far that’s my biggest dimensional problem. Maybe some short person will buy it and never know the difference…