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A New Month, Cabinets Started

Wow, what progress!  Most of the interior is finished!  Check it out…

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 Ha!  April Fool I am.  No chance.  That’s the last one, about a year ago now!

In all reality, the progress is slow but steady.  The base cabinets are being fitted, after being prepped for plumbing and electrical.  There’s a hole in the set of base cabinets because there was an error with the width of the stove cabinet.  It was an inch too narrow and would have been a fire hazard whenever baking!  Here they are, laid out and ready to glue in with Sikaflex 252…

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I have to admit, I get a warm feeling when looking in a window and seeing stained cherry in place.  It means things are happening, and in another month, she WILL look like the photo at the top of this post.  But for now, you get your inspiration where you can.  This is the fifth camper I’ve built since 2003 and I can’t get enough of seeing them come together.  This may not mean much to anyone else, but I know that soon she’ll have some nice halogen and LED lights set into a wall cabinet in this location, and will be running on internal power…

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Once the joinery is done, there will be a month of wiring and plumbing to do, so I’m getting a head start.  The electrical center is being cut now, to hold the main breaker panel, multimeter, solar charge controller, inverter control, generator control, and AC source selector.  Oh, and the cassette toilet’s in and its access door installed…

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4 Responses to “A New Month, Cabinets Started”

  1. Michael says:
    April 2 2009 at 06:19

    Darrin, this is killing me, what is a cassette toilet ??
    And yes the top picture got me i was thinking man he’s almost done…Michael

  2. Darrin says:
    April 2 2009 at 06:40

    A Cassette Toilet is the next generation after the 8-track toilet. Now who’s the April fool, hmmm? ;-)

    Seriously, tho’, it’s a Dutch-built Thetford toilet that uses a removable waste “cassette” holding around 5 gallons of black water. It eliminates the need for a black water holding tank and all the necessary plumbing to get into and out of that tank.

    To empty this one, you open the external hatch,remove the cassette, and dump it in a toilet or dump station.

  3. frjo says:
    April 3 2009 at 00:16

    Hi Darring

    I was struggling a bit to leave a note after login. It failed several times but may work now. Nice to see the progress going on. Particularly the whole power AC/DC unit Now I understand why you talk about she where for the dutch all sorts of transport cars campers etc are male (he)

    Cheers, Frits

  4. Darrin says:
    April 3 2009 at 07:46

    Frits - Yes, “She” is too complicated with far too many buttons to push! Darrin

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