The skin is all off. The new space is mighty cramped, but I'm grateful to have power, especially working through the winter- a little Pelonis disc furnace does a nice job of taking the chill off, before it gives its all as the future built-in trailer furnace. More to come on that, should be a fun side project. Factory wiring. I'm sure this is up to code, somewhere, maybe. I'd previously ripped a stack of fir (well, generic whitewood) 2x4s down for my 2x2 framing, but as usual I eventually overthought things. Cue a trip to Crosscut in Portland and a load of lovely poplar dimensional lumber, including a slab of 8/4 for the wheelwell sills. No mere 1x8s nailed together here, no sir. Should be considerably stiffer and sturdier than the whitewood (or the zero-grade, extra knotty stuff used at the factory), and ostensibly lighter, too. As it turns out, the whitewood 2x2s still came in handy, although I'd prefer if they hadn't. I knew the bulk of my skirts nee
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