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New Steel - 1 1/2″ 14ga. square tubing, primed & ready for building the framework

Framework welded! Roof hole to be cut when ready for installation

Gwometts, surrounding the 10ga. Marine Wire

Insulation back in…

Ceiling Reinstalled, and paint/wibbits/caulk on the roof!

From an article on the FMCA’s (Family Motor Coach Association) 26th annual Southeast Area Rally:

New floor plans are a draw, said Ryan Hollan, sales rep for Haberson RV Pasco in Holiday. “It used to be living room, entertainment/den, then kitchen. The latest models have moved the kitchen to the front.”

In conjunction, the TV has come down to eye level after hanging from the ceiling behind the driver and front passenger seats. “It’s more of a living room feel than an RV feel,” said Hollan, a veteran RV sales rep.

[St. Petersburg Times]

As previously mentioned in Evangelina’s Floorplan, I decided on a front galley three years ago.

Surely I wasn’t the first, but still.

Knowing how to drill steel is a skill only learned by doing. As one who has not reached any serious competency yet, this dialog confirmed my seat-of-the-pants experience…

DrDave:

Run the bit at a speed and pressure until just shy of smoking or turning blue.

Stan:

I think you have found the ideal speed from a lot of experience drilling holes. For an inexperienced person that is the equivalent of ‘tighten the bolt until it breaks and then back off a quarter turn’. If you don’t have some ballpark idea of the correct speed before you start, you either ruin a drill bit or make very slow progress.

Then getting serious, Stan adds:

Figure on 100 feet per minute cutting mild steel. Calculate the circumference of the bit in feet and divide by two (a bit has two cutting flutes) times the RPM of the drill. A few caculations will give you some idea of how fast to run your drill with different size bits.

And DrDave concludes:

If you are getting more than 20 holes on a bit, It’s a good Day!!

[Bus Conversions Forum]

Huh. Tighten a bolt till it breaks then back off. What a comedian.

Until I upgrade and put in spam prevention tools comments have been disabled for now. Not that anyone ever commented anyway!