Day 9, we got the front curved sidewalls cut out and glued to the front flat piece. That took some ingenuity, since we had 15mph+ winds all day. I picked up some 1x2x8's that morning, and Himself used them to build a wind brace so we could get the front base glued together. Also got the curved front board completely kerfed, and then when Himself tried to hand-bend it, he snapped part of it. Hooray for Gorilla Glue. In one of those typical spousal moments: I *told* him we were going to need a heat gun to bend it. It's 2" foam, kerfed down 1" with a 1/8th circular saw blade straight across. Most of the crack will be cut off when we cut it to size. The fun will be getting all the TB2 into those kerfs before we bend it. I may hit up the pharmacy at work for a no-needle syringe.
Gorilla Glue is messy. Very, very messy. I can't decide which I hate more, Gorilla Glue or Great Stuff. Blech. Icky sticky mess. Pictures about to be loaded to album.
For those interested, cost of supplies to build camper so far: ~$873.96. That does not include the $600 paid for the utility trailer. We also haven't bought the latex paint for the final coat.
This is:
10 sheets 250 2" foam board
3 sheets 150 1.5" foam board (floor insulation, 1 sheet left over)
6 sheets 1/4" plywood (floor)
3 sheets 1/2" plywood (floor)
2 cans Great Stuff (used 1 on floor)
13 yards of 144" canvas
5 gals TB2
2-32oz bottles Gorilla Glue
6-1x2x8
10-2x4x8
2-2x8x8
Saw blades, putty knives, paint brushes, bungees, some rope.
I think we're up to 8-80ct boxes of Spax screws at this point. I've lost count.
30"x68" camper door/trim
2-12x21 camper windows/trim
1 roll putty tape
1 qt each flat black enamel (oops paint), latex flat black (correct paint), hammered copper paint
As a reference, when I was looking at 13-16ft campers on Craigslist, to get something that didn't need a complete gutting right away, they were a minimum of $1500 and those would've needed some work right away to use this year, so I figured I'd have spent $2500 on fixing up a used, much heavier camper. There isn't really a budget for this build, per se, but that was kind of the number I was estimating. We'll see how close I come to that mark when all is said and done and totaled up at the end.