and on the fourth day...

I realized that updating this blog regularly eats up a ton of time... I'll add more pictures to it at some point. Honest.

Decided this project was a good reason to pick up a few new tools. I was looking for a well reviewed line of cordless power-tools, with a modest price point, and ideally 18V.

This is what I ended up going with.

At that price, and qualifying for free shipping, it was pretty hard to go wrong... and there is a $25 rebate if I actually manage to send it in on time.

If I'm happy with the power and battery life of the set, I'll probably grab these in the next few days.

Almost forgot, also picked us this little guy, hard to pass it up when I was already placing an order..

Carpet pad/backing is removed, down to bare plywood floor. However, still need to spend an afternoon pulling carpet staples...

The only cabinets left are the above the windows in the middle of the RV. They are actually somewhat well designed and out of the way, so they will probably stay as-is until much later in the project.

The Coleman furnace has been removed, good riddance!

The kitchenette is currently in the process of being removed, fridge is mostly disconnected, range hood is gone, range guts are now exposed and being disconnected tonight.

Spent the afternoon with a co-worker this weekend identifying random shite in and around the engine (thanks Andy!).

Now that I can see the original flooring there are a few places where the seal between the wall and floor has grown old and expired, which is easy enough to reseal. There appears to only be one section of wall with any damage. Still no signs of any roof leaks!

I'll post up some links later this week to the elements for the solar panel system I'm ordering... I actually found some great articles on making your own solar panels as well.

Epoxy cells to a sheet of glass.
Run 2 lines of solder across the cells.
Sandwich cells between another piece of glass of the same size.
Attach some sort of frame.

What I'm most likely going to end up doing is ordering a 100W-150W panel initially. Then order the supplies to build my own. This will give me a nice finished product as a blueprint for my own, and give me something that a professional hast built to test performance against.