On Jul 17, 11:49*am, Frogwatch wrote:
My slide-in truck camper based on a design from Glen-L is nearing
completion. *This project has taken far longer than expected and has
not been as much fun as I expected. *For awhile I was trying to build
the framing to boat building standards until I realized this was a
waste of epoxy. *The Glen-L design is from the late 70s and you have
to do some re-thinking for newer materials but seems to work.
The metal siding was more expensive than I expected. *I used actual RV
siding from an RV siding company and cutting it was a serious PITA
resulting in some wicked looking edges. *Fortunately, trim has covered
my most serious flaws. *Unfortunately, there are a few places where my
saber saw slipped and the blade punctured the skin where trim does not
cover it but I will try to seal these with epoxy and touch-up paint.
The windows will be installed this weekend and then the outside will
be finished. *Then the fun starts because my wife insists on doing the
interior her way. *This will mean endlessly looking at samples of
fabric and linoleum till I am ready to pick something at random.
Originally, I thought the camper would be ready for our annual
pilgrimage to Wyoming because the bears mountain lions and now wolves
have become a problem for campers. *There was a story yesterday about
a family camping near Cody being attacked by a mountain lion.

Many years ago (Early 80s) we were camped near Hole-In-the -Wall
(Butch Cassiday's hideout) in the middle of nowhere (southern end of
the Bighorn Mountains) and could hear a mountain lion at night. My
wife and I (childless then) slept in our friends hard sided slide in
camper. In the morning, we found mountain lion tracks all over in the
snow around our camp.