#MegaVan Update : 30! "Be my guest and Take a seat!" Having installed the70L clean water tank, screwed it to a board and plumbed in and left it to set overnight, i realised i'd forgotten to install the level sensor! 🤦 Luckily I managed to retrofit and reset it into position... Only to realise I'd cut the sensor bars incorrect and I needed to cut the longest prong shorter!! 🤦🤦🤦😭 So contorted to the max and effing & jeffing, I struggled to tin snip and clip the offending prong without disturbing the seal and silicone gel (too much) I also placed the #Turma heater to its final position ready for air ducting and installation of water pipes and lpg when available. All in all, a very productive week! No injuries this week...🙏

#MegaVan Update : 29 Let there be carnage! So... Having engaged a company to build a on-off grid solution capable of allowing the Wife to cook, bake and provide delicious meals from scratch, and about £4000 later, we have a whole load of boxes, cables and reams of instructions to consume to ensure we know what goes where, when the time comes. Luckily I've enlisted someone who is qualified and understands electrics more than I do. Although I did spot a few issues and held an intense conversation, debating the reason for a specific fuse rating with the design engineer! And I was right!!! It's exciting stuff and can't wait for commissioning to start and we can really get 12v stuff working like the fridge, water pump, extractor and Truma heater! Also the 24v cob lighting. Its all go but still....so much to do!

#MegaVan Update : 28 I lied! Plumbing was NOT next... I managed to get the kitchen cleared and put more holes in for the sink taps and electric pop-up! Didn't hit my head and only once slightly injured my fingers holding the chuck and accidently spinning the drill !!! nicking the skin but it'll heal in a few days 🙄 Carted the work surface back in and it looks the real deal! What do you guys think? You'd never know I've never done anything like this before!!! Might have found a new skill.

" I knew Satoshi back in the 90s, and so did my Wife! "

#MegaVan Update : 27 In Recovery... Don't have a headache anymore and getting back to normal after #2024HeadBanging! Word of warning, take ANY head impact seriously as the brain is a sensitivity pudding of an organ, prone to bruising and concussion is no joke! Spent the morning planning for cutting holes in the vanity unit surface and reshaping to make it fit so the overhang matches the kitchen 😉 As they say 'Measure twice, cut once.' and as there's no spare worksurface, it won't be pretty I get it wrong!!! 😬 Luckily, (and with a little skill might I add) it all went well. Tap fitting went smoothly and it looks the real deal! Something to be proud off. I'm a little bit of a horder and the cupboard handles are about 10 years old but I knew they'd eventually come in handy! #ToldYaSo Next? Plumbing...😭

#MegaVan Update : 26 It's been a trying time. Since cracking my head on the tailgate of my Wife's car, I've had to take it easy and not do much on the #MegaVan. It's very likely that I gave myself a mild concussion and it's effected me more than I'd like to think! In my youth I probably would have shrugged this off and cracked on, not missing a beat but nowadays I'm slower, tired and often unsteady. Every day I'm getting better but it's a stark reminder that I'm no spring chicken!! If anyone knows of a casual smart looking everyday hardhat, I'd like to know! 😜 The only shining light had been watching the #btc charts and reading about the potential adoption in global finance & government sector! It's all very promising. I hope you've prepared appropriately. Here's looking at you kid!

#MegaVan Update : 25 Injured!!! MANDOWN ! So... Wasn't working on the #MegaVan but out shopping off all things. Putting groceries into the boot and WHACK! I smacked the top of my head into the open boot! Luckily Wife & Daughter heard the bang and aided me. I saw stars & went rubber legged for a sec... Wife drove us back but having a day off today. Am considering wearing a hardhat all year round! What a plonker!

GM

#MegaVan update: 23 We have something resembleing a Kitchen! (aka Galley) After warning neighbours that I'd be cutting outside and after another quick measure, more like 3 and 30 minutes of anxious pacing. I finally drilled corner points and joined cuts to make the sinkhole! (apparently I say 'Sinkhole' in a rude way, if anyone can explain to me how else I can say it, more than welcome to learn... 🤔 Sink'ole, Sink Whole, Sink-Hellooole !) The worktop is lighter as I'd cut the excess for the vanity unit off. So easily placed it in its final resting place and as we were having guests round quickly popped the doors on! (plastic wrapped still) but looking good!

#MegaVan update: 23 Kitchen! (aka Galley) Taking shape by assembling, fitting and bolting units together. The worktop is in place and a test cut was made. The excess happens to fit the bathroom vanity unit so there's a stroke of luck! The worktop is a compact paper & resin12mm laminate and measuring 2.4m long! Not too heavy but very clean and stylish which is very pleasurable to the Misses apparently. I've never fitted a kitchen before and it's a very steep learning curve. Working out the cutting and edges is fun, not! 😭 Marked out the sink hole and will attempt it tomorrow as I don't want to rush it and will probably measure it all again for the uptinth time before putting anything sharp against it! 😬 Once the sink is in I can focus on the Tap and waste connections. It's all go here!

#MegaVan update: 22 Well that didn't work out... I'd loaded the #MegaVan with ample weight to simulate it finished and took it to a weighstation. My God, she's heavy! 😳 Taking into account there's still a few things to go in her (oo er madam) till she's finished, she hefty, very nearly at safe limits tbh. Hence the decision NOT to fit the taillift... Sad I know, but as Duncan, our commercial fitter said "She'll handle like a bathtub on ice if you do!" I've always known she's got a big ass and likes to swing it on corners but I don't want anything to exasperated it! I've caused enough damage already. Let's not mention #FirstGateGate. (more on that another time... ) Any hoo - Came back a little bit deflated but the guys sure know how to look after me & the #MegaVan. They'd serviced it and gave her a thorough examination and fixed a few niggles for good measure so not a completely wasted journey. So back to the grindstone, focus on under kitchen plumbing and getting units in.

GN

#MegaVan update: 21 Quick reminder there will only ever be #21million #btc! There's a difference between scarce and finite. Yesterday we got up very early and travelled to our commercial outfitters in Cornwall, ready from the taillift (Wife's Gin Terrace!) to be fitted. There's lots of controversy about adding more weight and complexity to the #MegaVan but we envisage have it on it own land at some point and having a raised outside platform will definitely be an add bonus to watch sunsets etc. So we're back in Cornwall once again and over the next few days I'm planning on doing some difficult jobs on the #MegaVan like fitting the clean & waste tanks. On a different note. I hadn't driven the #MegaVan for over a month and my god, I felt it in the calves and they were cramping badly. Note: Use the whole leg on the peddles not just the ball of the foot! 👍

The #MegaVan is coming on well. Not only do we have 1 working secret trolly drawer but the Woowoo loo was delivered today. It will be a few days until I get the holes and pipes connected. (Black waste tank still to be underslung) Kitchen on order and vanity unit & bowl arriving Thursday. Today I lifted the galley floor connecting hot, cold & waste pipes into final positions. All very exciting. Renogy still haven't refunded my money on their completely failed order but I have found a good supplier of Victron equipment to build my solution going forward. 🤑