I have some stainless drawers and slides that I salvaged from a nice high dollar gas grill that a neighbor tossed out. Also a stainless steel sink/cooler combination that will fit in one of the rear corners.

All it takes is some creativity to repurpose perfectly reusable materials for a new application. Now if I could find an old Jaguar Van den Plas and snag a couple of those seat back mahogany trays and some Grey Poupon.

After I reseal the front floor boards, I have some nice marble flooring from Macy's remodeling along with the glass doors from a few of their high dollar jewelry counters they threw out. That glass is super thick, trimmed in brushed stainless and has the Macy's logo painted on them. I may attach one of them to the back door for a folding table top. They may even be bulletproof glass since they came from the expensive jewelry counters that were replaced. I love Macy's.

I sent Caleb Bo some piano hinge from that to use on his trap door for the CDL.

 

The storage is just plywood. I zipped the platform together in about 15 minutes. I keep meaning to redo it and make it nicer but there's always something else to do.
The edges of the aluminum are just bare. I just used an angle grinder to take of the bigger burrs and a quick sand to smooth them. No need for any other trim.

Danny, you kill me.
Danny this is Google, Google this is Danny.
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Its like a RivNut but easier to install.

 

On a recent episode of trucks, they were doing some custom work on one of the build on a budget segments where they did a pretty major modification to some small truck that they were rebuilding. The mod involved relocating the wheel well cutouts where they were doing some big changeover. I do not remember all the details, but they did their own flares and used some small diameter bar stock and split the fenders open and reshaped them. To cover some metal edges they took a length of rubber tubung, split it lengthwise and slid it over the edge of the metal.

If you select the right size diameter of tubing it works well to cover bare edges. If it is a little big, you can run a bead of clear silicone caulking then slide the tubing over the edge. The caulking makes a good adhesive for that purpose. Most shops do have some spare tubing laying around. Just wanted to pass that little tip along.

If you cannot have fun doing it, then why do it?

A lot of us would like to fix our rigs up like an expedition equipped rig. The problem with most of the equipment that is available cost so much, you need pretty deep pockets or a govt grant to properly outfit for such an adventure.

I saw a motor coach that John Daly had custom built. It has a big slide out unit on one side that is built for entertaining. It has a complete outdoor kitchen unit with a big gas grill, a refridgerator and a wide screen TV. All you have to do is push a button on a remote and the side of the rig opens up and all this stuff extends out, ready to use.

There is an awning over it that you can control as well. All you need to do is set up your lounge chairs and enjoy the outdoors.

 

Them jack nuts are damn cool.

 

Danny, everytime I read a post of your's Sanford and Son plays in my head. LOL
Sanford and Son Intro - YouTube

 

When Cousin Frank called me to come look at that truck load of equipment from the USS Training Center that his company bought, I told him those huge consoles were apparently trainers for mill electricians. I was correct, hecalled the Manufacturer and found out they were sitting on somewhere between $50,000-$100,000 dollars worth of current trainers that were still being made and sold today. I was almost given that equipment to scrap out but we decided to donate it to a vo tech school so that his company got a tax write-off.

They did give me three huge PLC consoles that I sold the guts out of to PLC Center for $300 bucks and I got to keep the metal frames which will most likely become bumpers on my rig. The scrap wire I sold for about $100.

When you are on SSD, you do what you can to supplement those govt checks my friend. I just laugh and enjoy it. Sit your scrap by the curb, I'll pick it up and laugh all the way to the tax free scrap yard.

That little folding aluminum ladder makes dumpster diving easy. Especially when they remodel a store or resturant and throw out hundreds of pounds of wire, aluminum and other commodities.

If I could only come up with an easy way to reclaim the gold from circuit boards. That would be nice!

 

Never mind

 

danny, think i may use those jack nuts for your rear light guards.

 

Please understand the following:

1. I commend you on any and all efforts you and other first responders make in any situation.

2. My father was a professional firefighter from right after WWII when the returning vets were recruited to be the first profesional firefighters in my hometown in Georgia. He died on duty during an annual PT certification after they had passed a minimun retire age that did not exist until shortly before he would have been eligible for full retirement at the age of 46. Instead they made him stay until 56 and he missed it by a few weeks.

3. The item you referenced may be wonderful for specific applications such as the one you identified in the above pics.

4. Is it worth the price of $100 for the average guy on this forum?

5. All of us are unique individuals from vastly different areas, age groups and the various other demographics that together comprise society.

6. I myself am a 60 year old VietNam Era US Navy vet that worked several years in a variety of jobs in the Defense Industries and later when that took an economic downturn became a Certified Quality Auditor on contract to such firms as US Steel, Timken Steel, and a variety of other metals processors. I also served as the Director of Quality for a small manufacturing company based in Johnstown Pa that has since gone out of business, as have many firms in those areas and businesses.

7. I do have a Bachelors of Science in International Business that I earned at the age of 40 while working full time in the Defense Industry anddoing Vendor Surveilance Audits and Failure Investigations on the Cruise Missle.

8. All of us bring a variety of skill sets to the forum based upon our varied backgrounds.We can all benefit from this unique combination of individuals making contributions.

9. I also have my own sense of humor very similar to that of Jeff Foxworthy and the RedNeck Commedy Tour. I also enjoy the guy with the dummies (Walter, Bubba, Jose and the rest of them) whose videos I posted recently flying in his homemade helocopter.

10. I currently am on SSD due to a debilitating illness I suffered while on contract to the USPS as an Auditor but was sent to a different location for a temp assigment shortly after 9-11 where I suffered such a severe sinus infection that the entire right side of my face was severely distorted for many months, I had such bad headaches from the swelling that I could not even get out of bed. I spent over a year hospitalized, went thru 97 bilateral shock tratments, lost the ability to walk, talk, read and write. But I survived all that and regained all those abilities thru many years of self determination.

11. I lost my Porsche 928, my MB 420 SEL, my income, my insurance coverage, my retirement funds, my patience and some compassion as well as some dedication and was informed I owed the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center $286,924.86 and asked what were my plans to repay that.

12. Since I no longer have an income other than the Social Security that I paid into for the last 45 years. I supplement that income in any fashion available to me and had to become very frugal. Not like when I had a comfortable income and could enjoy whatever I wanted to do without much concern over the cost.

If you failed to understand the point of view I presented or my attempts at humor offended you I am sincerely sorry about that.

If you want to continue to harbor hurt feelings and make derogatory comments then click on the link FOR THOSE I HAVE OFFENDED IN MY SIGNATURE and the cutie with the ukelele has a song she would like to do for you. Have a nice day.

 

Slang,

Those are the type of thing I referred to as captive fasteners. I am happy that the info was passed on, I saved one of the pages and may get one of their kits since I have quite a few cool knick knacks i want to put in my Disco after I finish attacking the common rust issues.

I need to shoot some pics of what I just found regarding where the wheel wells join the side wall. Instead of just trying to fix it, I am leaning to totally removing those stock whell wells and boxing them out with some of the steel frame material that was recently donated to me by Cousin Frank. We have several Franks in my wife's family so we refer to them like above.

I gave him one of those Tommy Armour Putters that I regripped. We have a US Steel Contractors Charity Outing at some big club in mid May. I told him the putter he has been using is an embarrassment so I hooked him up with a vintage putter that I polished and regripped.

I like the rebuild you did with your floors. My floors are in pretty good shape, but my side door jams and the rear wheel wells are beginning to be a problem area. So I will be cutting that out and seeing how good a welder Johnny Next Door really is.

A lot of the lder dudes at the American Legion have some amazing hot rods they have built up. That El Camino with the drag slicks has a totally redone bed area that is mostly diamond plate fenders about two feet wide each.

The frames I have are so thick wall, they will not need any bracing. It will be like two fat boxes with flat tops in the rear. If it works out right, I could make some seats laid out like the MOD's with them facing each other installed right on top of the new fenders.

Just need some good sipping Rum to get the creativejuices flowing. Us old guys have to build up motivation.

I also want to look at moving those fuses and such from under the driver's seat, what a stupid place to put fuses. And reroute some more wire bundles.