May 2010 - Page 2 of 3 - Ursus Volans

Day 75: Templates and Tidying

In terms of actual physical work done on the van this week has been slow, yes I finished the wheel arch box and fixed the…

Day 74: Electrics

My electrical control and distribution system turned up today and I was presently surprised. As you may recall I ordered it from Wildax Motorhomes e-bay…

Day 73: Measuring, trimming and designing

This evening found me crawling under in and around our beds with a torch, a tape measure and my note book assessing the different consruction…

Day 72: Partition template

This evening I finished the of boxing in the wheel arch and the filler pipe and started on the template for the main partition. This…

Day 71: Back to the grindstone

After a weekend off it was back to the van conversion this evening, and had I not run out of PSE timber I would have…

Day 68-70: First Trip Away – Suffolk Kite Festval 2010

Despite being way from finished, this weekend was our first weekend away in the van. So far we have skipped several kite festivals and meets…

Day 100: The First One Hundred Days

Another major milestone today, we have now had the van for 100 days, though according to my calculations I have only actually worked on it…

Day 67: Framing Out the Wheelarch

This evening was spent making a start on the framing to box in the wheelarch and the gas fill pipe, its surprising just how long…

Day 66: Wall Panel

Having gone into work early today: one of the servers wouldn’t restart after applying updates remotely, I had the afternoon to work on the van,…

Day 65: Gas – Fill points and pipes

This evening was spent fitting the gas fill pipe and the filler point. I had originally wanted to put the fill point low down below…