Well here we are, the 4th of October 2011, and it seems, all the owners are waiting on, to confirm the sale of the CP, is one more nod from a bean counter, and we get the big size 9 up the Khyber Pass and sent on our way.....Yahoooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!
Probably see settlement by early to mid November, however it is not over till "the fat lady sings". In time essence I would like a near on Chrissy settlement, just to get a few more traveling funds in the coffers, however we really want to get cracking again, cause we are sooooooo booooooored.
But of course now the pressure is on the finish the Retro Liner.
Just an update:
The vinyl covering of the boxed section of the wheel arch is now finished. What a rotten job that was. In my next life I wish not to be an upholster. To fully finish off the job, just waiting for a real upholster to cut down one of the original back bolster to give the blank wall a bit a flavour. Once I fit those, and put on some edging to hide some of my dodgy joins, should look like a million bucks.
The radio / CD has had the trim added. I just have to tidy up some leads from a LED light. Then once that is all done it is the Bride's turn to get the inside back to normality.
Now the panic is on to finish the outside.
The portable solar panels I have given to one of the guys at Auto Barn in Nambour, great young bloke, who really has taken the Retro Liner to heart. As I am as useless as "tits on a bull" when it comes to some things, Matt is going to re - wire the leads from the solar panel to the battery.
Like all these "made in China" goodies, the leads from the panels to the battery were way to skinny, and the the alligator clips to go on the battery were just toys. So the plan is to cut the existing wires about a metre out from the panels and add an Anderson plug. Then 10 metres of heavy duty cable will be added. This cable will have the female Anderson plug one end and the other will have these U beaut battery screw on thingies that will go to the appropriate battery poles. That means when the panels are not being used, we simply un plug the Anderson plug from the panel end, then unscrew from the battery end, fold up the new lead and pack away in the carry bag.
Now the lights have become bigger than Ben Hur............but Matt to the rescue. This fine young man is coming up to the the CP from Nambour to fit the all the new LED clearance lights, and the tail and brake lights. I could quite easily do the clearance lights, only one wire to worry about here, apart from the earth, but the tail lights are a mass of spaghetti wires. Plus the LED's are so much smaller than the old globe types.
So to balance the decorotive look there is going to be some checker plate used as a base for the lights, plus it covers up the holes of the existing larger lights. All that work will be done, hopefully over the next 10 days. It seems apart from the cost of parts, the fee will be in the vicinity of a bottle of rum.
Love dealing in this sort of currency. My web master who has been looking after our web site for 10 years, only deals in bottles of Wild Turkey. Just had the site up dated http://www.hostsontherun.com.au/
Now of course, and just hoping the new door for the Coleman HWS will be fitted this Friday. Once that is in, I will set up the HWS.
I am currently madly scraping off the old silicon where the old vent was, and also around the base of the skirt of the pop top. What a rotten job that is.
Next major expense is one I keep on forgetting about, is the purchase of the VAST TV box, plus now that I have set up the TV system to be all 12 volt, I need to get a pure sine wave inverter. Drat more costs!!!!! As far as the painted flash down the side that may have to be done on the road somewhere.
That's it for now.......best go back to scraping more silicon off. Time is getting awaaaaaaaaaaay!!
Hopefully we will have some pikkies next time.
Cheers & beers
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