Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Getting back to work

It's been a long and cold winter to this point. Instead of freezing my butt off in the uninsulated trailer, I have been spending more time with the family. A month ago, I sold our third trailer, a 63 Tradewind, and the new owner and I have been working on it for camping season.

Yesterday, my new friend Brian, (the Tradewind owner), came over to assist on working on the flying cloud. We pulled all of the new 110v wiring, and most of the 12v system wiring. We still need to run wiring for the porch light, two ceiling lights, and the DSI circuit of the future hot water heater.

We did accomplish some other things though. We installed the water fill and water tank vent in the front of the trailer. These are marine parts which will require a little finagling on my part to integrate into the system, but well worth the look.


We also installed this umbilical outlet on the front of the trailer. I like how our 75 has a removable trailer cable when not in use, and decided to do it on my Flying Cloud. I didn't like the plastic on Vintage Trailer Supply, so I went to etrailer.com's HQ which is a few miles down the road. The cover is galvanized, So in time it will rust, but I hope it's awhile till that happens



More later.

Steve

2 comments:

Brad Norgaard said...

Very nice Steve. About time you get back to work. I've been wanting to do the same thing with my umbilical to keep it out of the hot desert sun.

Aluminium Idler said...

Nice work Steve. I think there's a pleasing beauty to functional outlets. Galvanised or aluminum, they say this trailer is meant to work.

If its any consolation, its been bloody freezing over here in the UK too. But spring's a'comin...

Chris