Seat/Bed units

After the forced Hiatus of the fuel pump, it's time to crack on with something on the van, I think I need to fit the vinyl floor next and drill through it to fix everything, but I'd need to fix the fresh and waste water plus the LPG tank and repair the floor so it's not obvious where the holes were through thin vinyl....but I digress....

Got stuck into the rear seat/bed units, I'd like to say for the record I'm not a carpenter and I'm not particularly great at it, but I do get some satisfaction when it goes right and this has just about been spot on, I'm sure mk2 would be better but mk1 will suffice!

I've decided to keep each unit separate so they can be moved, otherwise the side of the bed could be part of the kitchen unit.

Built the slats (a copy of Deep Reds so many thanks for the excellent pics online).

Then the sides were made from 12mm ply, I'd love some lightweight furniture board in maple, but it's expensive and tricky to ship, so ply it is with 'Flecstone' paint in 'Manhattan Mist' over grey car primer (saves 20% of the expensive flec paint).

There is a painted panel in the foreground of the pic and I'm fitting the hinges (productive day as I made 1000 litres of Diesel too!)

Biggest problem I'll have now is once SWMBO has seen this I'm sure I'll have more carpentry to do, starting with replacing a sorry looking wicker washing basket, I think it will be a chute top for 'underpants basketball' ;-)

Fuel pump issues & new skatebord.

Well there's been a delay as the Transit fuel pump died, pretty much wrote off a month and pulled the pin on getting alternative transport so it's not used as much, particularly when finished.

Enter a MX5, no I'm not getting into hairdressing, it's cheap to buy & insure as a second vehicle. Japanese reliability and a bomb proof engine that will be seeing forced induction most likely a supercharger as I love the noise!

Pretty straight for a 1995 car and lots of fun to rag the nuts off with the roof down, this plus I was 40 last Saturday.....a mid-life crisis.......moi!?