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ha! Great stuff! She's lookin' good :-)

Picked up the recovered mattress/Seat covers today, they came out nicely.

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No rear seat not cert'd yet, will do it in July.

Installed a new alarm and a volt meter for the leisure battery at the weekend.
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whoo hoo, passed the DOE, got the cert + tax at last. Think I'm offically done... (famous last words)

Dirty1 : No, I won't lower it, need the ground clearance for some of the places I intend on...

new rear disks, pads and an oil + filter change today :

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the old ones look as if they were...

Added the all important fire extinguisher + fire blanket

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Slider door rail was chipped...

Made some blackout blinds for the windows in the rear, just cut some foil covered bubble wrap to shape, hopefully it'll help keep it cool in the sun and warm in the night. The window frames I'd made...

Argos ;-) "Camping bed" , I just cut it down to size so it sits on the door card tops, fits perfectly.

Its this one.

Wired in a switch for the lights in the rear (was pulling the fuse up till now).
Bought some fabric and sent the mattress in for recovering.
Cleaned the carpet spray glue off the windows, carpeted...

gas now working :
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Bed made for the little man
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Got my gas bottle in this morning :

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Also recovered the table :
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in for a penny... ;-)
When I'm doing this again I'll be buying the poptop first, it makes a huge huge difference, the side opening style gives full head height the length of the bus which would...

got my lights in tonight :

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strange, thought I'd replied to this earlier.... gremlins?
Anywho, no not noticed any difference, it gets warm quick enough when you are working in there with it. I think there is less noise when...

Finished the carpeting/lining last night :

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Will get a guide together when I've been...

started on tidying up the edges last night, picked up 2 10ft lengths of conduit and some hardboard and cut them out roughly to shape :
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Nothing yet, will bolt some flat bar along the length, I kept the rearmost and the B-pillar one so I'd be happy enough without. TBH if you don't plan on using the roof as a bed I'm not so sure it...

No, no particular reason, always liked them on the Bays though. The supplier had been recommended to me, the kit was great quality, everything included with spares of many parts.
Also if anyone is...

went to C&C in Galway this morning, then headed over to the garage to fit a poptop

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its very similar to this one :
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Picked it up from Autolec in...

Passed the camper conversion test/examination this morning, big relief!

Bought some carpet yesterday for the cab

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the current stuff was pretty bad
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bought some battery cables, a 6 way fusebox, 4meters of 30 amp cable and a few 12v sockets
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decided I'll fit it under the bonnet afterall and do some sort of smaller pollen filter setup later.

Today I'd a spare hour or so and made this as theres no cup holder in the bus and I've emptied...

it might, going to check that out today, just not crazy on the idea.