glasseye
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With the holidays over and Frito in the shop for his annual winter rest, I can finally turn to the bulkhead project. After a year or so of on-the-road layout testing, I've settled on a removable gaucho bed behind the driver's seat. This, combined with a LHS forward RV-style window, makes for a very nice place to spend the night. The bulkheads will provide sound insulation and shelf space. Everything except the bulkheads themselves will be easily removable for occasional large cargo hauling.
The single bunk provides for storage underneath in easily removable plastic tubs and leaves plenty of reserve space aft of the bunk for motorcycles, tripods and other camping gear.
For the occasional overnight guest, I'll take the "lower bunk" - the floor.
The two bulkhead sections will be 20" apart, leaving plenty of room to access the cab from the cargo area and vice versa. They'll be made of 3/4" oak plywood and supported by framing of fir material left over from a household flooring project. So far, the bulkheads consist of scraps of wood taped in place and the bed is a sheet of cardboard resting on plastic crates and water jugs. So far so good.
Last year, Theo Kindermans sent me a full-sized template of an existing T1N cargo partition. You can imagine how valuable this is for matching the plywood to Frito's complex side curvatures. THANK YOU THEO!
Punching through the template with a tiny screwdriver into the cardboard below to create an intermediate template for testing and fitting.
Check out the great job Theo did of ensuring a good matchup of the three sheets of tracing paper that he used to create the template.
The single bunk provides for storage underneath in easily removable plastic tubs and leaves plenty of reserve space aft of the bunk for motorcycles, tripods and other camping gear.
For the occasional overnight guest, I'll take the "lower bunk" - the floor.
The two bulkhead sections will be 20" apart, leaving plenty of room to access the cab from the cargo area and vice versa. They'll be made of 3/4" oak plywood and supported by framing of fir material left over from a household flooring project. So far, the bulkheads consist of scraps of wood taped in place and the bed is a sheet of cardboard resting on plastic crates and water jugs. So far so good.
Last year, Theo Kindermans sent me a full-sized template of an existing T1N cargo partition. You can imagine how valuable this is for matching the plywood to Frito's complex side curvatures. THANK YOU THEO!
Punching through the template with a tiny screwdriver into the cardboard below to create an intermediate template for testing and fitting.
Check out the great job Theo did of ensuring a good matchup of the three sheets of tracing paper that he used to create the template.