A 1966 Dodge school bus... for a Youtube studio

[@TechTimeTraveller]

It's been a while (again). It's taken me this long to get this bus bought, moved, and somewhat habitable, but finally we are getting ready to start filming in it! What a journey!

[@vwestlife]

Just keep an eye on the humidity level in it. Especially in the summer, you might want to put a few buckets of DampRid in it.

[@TechTimeTraveller]

The challenge of heating and keeping the bus dry has been tricky for sure. I'm a bit anxious about the delonghi radiator heater I bought, which I thought was ideal as we'd had one for 20 years that never gave us a moments trouble. Apparently some models were recalled due to fire risk. They're not supposed to be plugged into an extension cord either which we used to do all the time..heh. For the bus I had no choice, but I used a heavy 12 gauge cord and it's not even warm to the touch at the plug or anywhere along the cord. I'd love to find a safer solution though. Skoolie folks suggested using a dehumidifier has both heater and humidity control. But I worried it might not have enough moisture to work with to maintain heat, and I didn't want to be running that *and* a radiator heater. Damprid sounds like a good idea.

[@leadedsolder]

@@TechTimeTraveller I wonder if a mini-split would work out here. Air conditioners are pretty good at humidity control.

[@AnyasJunkyard]

@@TechTimeTraveller I can't imagine it would be very unsafe at 12 gauge, you gotta pull some serious juice through that for it to get spicy, I'd say it's fine

[@AnyasJunkyard]

@@leadedsolder and you get cooling in the summer, win/win

[@Trenchbroom]

One of the best parts of KZbin is stupid project satiation: watch others make life mistakes from the comfort of my home, bank account untouched. Good luck, can't wait to watch more!

[@TechTimeTraveller]

I used to be smart and watch rather than film that.. heh

[@orinokonx01]

I really appreciate the Stunts skit :D Love that game so much! Good luck with the 'new' mobile retro computer space! I think this is going to be the most unique retro computer project ever! :D

[@TechTimeTraveller]

Never could complete a track in Stunts but I love it too! Many thanks!

[@avalinah]

Dude your home is cool though. Trains, computers? And now a bus 😂 I love it. Would be a great place to come visit as a guest. You'd never get me out of the office after the house tour

[@joeconti2396]

Aging Wheels ears just perked up somewhere.

[@wotsac]

If you were uncertain Mr Tech Time Traveler - this is a warning. A terrifying warning.

[@WakenWanangi]

I actually thought this was an aging wheels video when I first saw it pop up

[@cromulence]

Mr Tech Time Traveller likes bus stuff too.

[@AiOinc1]

Sadly, Robert gave up completely on his a long time ago

[@ACRPC-dot-NET]

The beaver nest in the engine bay has to be the most Canadian thing I have ever heard of, I love it ❤

[@KoopaMedia64]

Looks pretty much exactly like my dad's 1970s Fargo grain truck. Hello from Saskatchewan! Also huge laughs at the Stunts skit with the green screen inside the bus cab, way too funny.

[@TechTimeTraveller]

@KoopaMedia64 Hello from Lotus land! I've seen a fair number of these old Dodge trucks on Canadian farms.. they're pretty much indestructible! Hope Sask isn't too cold right now!

[@Bahumot]

I can feel the passion and affection for this old bus in your video, and the first time I saw it in the thumbnail, I kinda fell in love with it too. This video was not at all out of place on this channel, like your PCs, it's a classic piece of technology with a lot of history behind it. I look forward to seeing more of Big Blue in the future! Also, you can't feature a restored bus on a youtube channel without making at least one camping video with it :) . (Understandable if that's not possible due to the bus not really being drivable right now, but I still hold out hope in the future).

[@TechTimeTraveller]

@Bahumot Thank you. As far as camping goes, I back into wilderness so I could just push it back 30 feet? 😀

[@networkg]

KZbin studio? Thank goodness it's a school bus. It could have been a Mini Cooper.

[@TechTimeTraveller]

Well, a Mini would certainly inspire me to keep my collection small..

[@thebiggerbyte5991]

Thoroughly enjoyed that!

[@AiOinc1]

You should call this the expansion bus! Also, being that you can turn that engine over by hand, its either not in gear or you have problems bell housing and back. I woukd not be shocked to learn that all the valves are stuck open, which would make it real easy to spin with the fan. You should definitely put flat screens where the windshield is and hook up a sim racer setup to play American Truck Simulator with this

[@TechTimeTraveller]

@AiOinc1 Expansion bus! Love it! Dang why didn't I think of that! I did have the transmission in neutral when I turned the engine over. It was NOT easy. I cannot turn it with the transmission in gear. Currently the driveshaft is disconnected at the diff. The previous owner did that as a favor for towing. Unfortunately I didn't realize that the rusty ubolts were part of that assembly and tossed them.. sigh. Finding those will be hard.

[@AiOinc1]

​@@TechTimeTravellernah from what I saw underneath it looks like normal dodge stuff so it shouldn't be too bad to get ahold of new ones. Would love to see video on getting the engine going, vehicle resurrections are something I absolutely live for. RIP Roadkill!

[@CthulhusDream]

The comfy ol wood paneling is great, reminds me of a RV my grandparents used to take us around in. I loved that thing

[@briangoldberg4439]

first big project I'd do is the floors. You can install ambient floor heating DIY and run hot water through it. Very economical and very effective in that kind of space. Added bonus you can get rid of the icky old laminate and its smells and mold (especially in the back)

[@TechTimeTraveller]

@briangoldberg4439 Yeah I'm trying to figure out the best heating options. Right now I don't have a proper RV power stand nearby, so I'm relying on heavy duty extension cords to the house. The radiator heater seems adequate but I've read horror stories about them melting power cords and stuff. Even though I've had one for 20 years and it hasn't given me a moments grief.

[@briangoldberg4439]

​@@TechTimeTraveller I'm sure that'll do for the time being. I would seriously look into radiant floor heating though. They make kits specifically for RVs that you can use, and it's by far the cheapest and most effective option, not to mention safest. You can also use the system to heat tap water.

[@Rokios]

Aw yeah! Please keep us up to date with the restoration of Big Blue.

[@JVHShack]

Suggestion for the wheels: Google "19.5 6-lug wheels" for the rear and "19.5 5-lug wheels" for the front. Those might fit and let you scrap/repurpose those widow-maker rims. Or you could possibly find (or get some made) some wheel adapters. You'd probably need a 20-ton jack to change them out and a *huge* lug wrench. If worse comes to worse: Another idea would be to go to a local used auto parts place and find something like a 2000 to 2012 Ford F-550 or bigger and get the running gear from that. The Ford front axle is a solid tube if you find a 2WD version. Anything is possible with even a cheap welder and a cheap angle grinder and/or reciprocating saw!

[@TechTimeTraveller]

Thanks muchly! Yes I'm considering all options on the wheels. Of all the wheels they had to be widowmakers. I really wanted to keep stuff like that original but I'd also like to be able to move the bus from time to time under its own power. I don't think widowmakers are known to randomly fly apart, I think once assembled they're fine. But is the inflation that is scary.

[@50shadesofbeige88]

25:59😂 Kickstart My Heart vibes.

[@TechTimeTraveller]

I seriously want to get custom LCD panels made to fit the front windows and hook up the controls to interface with a computer. And then just stunt drive the thing all day long lol

[@paveloleynikov4715]

Please, consider adding a hatch in the back, for loading and unloading computers. For your own sanity

[@williamsmith306]

In the late 1960s, my parents converted a late 1940s full length school bus into a camper. As a boy, I remember them driving it and us to our vacation property on the Potomac River, where it would sit until fall, when it would then be driven back to Pennsylvania to become a hunting camp. Oddly or coincidently, in the 1980s, my father painted it a similar color of light blue. I remember the first time they took it for a Pennsylvania vehicle inspection the large front and rear red stop lights had to be decommissioned in some manner, Aluminum foil duct tape was the acceptable quick fix. I finally sent it off to the great school parking lot in the sky in the early 2010s, after my father's death, by then it had become a catchall shed filled with mostly junk he couldn't part with. Have fun with your project, that is what memories consist of after all.

[@TechTimeTraveller]

@williamsmith306 That's a great story! My Dad just passed last year. That must have been hard to send the bus away given it's connection to your Dad. School buses are great for this sort of thing.. they seem to last forever.. to a point.

[@BrianMaddox]

Ahhh the Smokey and the Bandit Trans Am! I salute you.

[@TechTimeTraveller]

This was was more like the Smoked Bandit edition.. someone impaled the front subframe onto something and made a big hole in it.

[@autobotjazz1972]

@@TechTimeTraveller So instead of being east bound and down it was just down?

[@MichaelEhling]

Actually this is super cool. It's like the Airstream that Terry O'Reilly uses for his radio/podcast production vehicle.

[@TechTimeTraveller]

Someone really put a lot of love into this thing. I won't take credit for that, but I will try to preserve and improve on it as best I can. I've seen lots of skoolies but never one quite like this.

[@williamharris8367]

Our host's comments at the start reminded me of my Grandfather. He had absolutely no qualms about spending money that he did not have. He died in a "negative equity" position. Even his most determined creditors had to accept defeat; they would get no further money from him (or his estate). Of course such an approach will annoy and upset anyone expecting to inherit from you, but that is, quite literally, not your problem anymore.

[@TechTimeTraveller]

I'm not in a negative equity position, but definitely one could argue that a school bus and rooms full of vintage computing items do not constitute a 'need'. I used to be solidly in the 'save every penny for the future' camp. But lately as age creeps up and people I know pass on, I'm thinking there's nothing wrong with some small financial misadventures. Life is too short.

[@mryon314159]

I was once at a university fencing tournament in Houghton Michigan where I met a very drunk, lumberjack looking fellow in a bar who swore to me he drove his school bus to the bar. We went out to the balcony and looked waaay down to the parking lot in the valley below. Sure enough, a big yellow school bus. Was it his? I don't know but later I did see him plus a couple of friends get into said bus and drive away.

[@TechTimeTraveller]

It's handy having a home on wheels, especially if you're drunk!

[@sheenaQuarto83]

What an interesting video on the history of school buses and the evolution of school buses safety regulations. Btw love your bus Big Blue looks like a great place to build your filming studio for your KZbin channel.

[@TechTimeTraveller]

Thank you! I'm enjoying it a lot. It's really nice having a quiet spot that isn't needed for other family functions.

[@sheenaQuarto83]

@@TechTimeTraveller I bet you are loving it

[@lascheque]

The Memory Bus.

[@KoopaMedia64]

YES!!

[@QuintusCunctator]

Big Blue is a thing of beauty, and a flawed gem! I completely agree on keeping the dinette, stove and living space combo as intact as feasible, even if not operational: it gives the bus a heartwarming "second home" vibe. Oh, and don't worry about the channel identity too much: extra money is always good, but if you don't feel like chasing the algorithm to turn this into a "second job", doing what you enjoy is the best way to handle a KZbin channel while keeping pressure and expectations (both from inside and outside) in check, in my opinion. Oh, and by the way, I think this *is* your channel identity: a pleasant and humorous mix of your vintage interests. We'll be along for the ride!

[@TechTimeTraveller]

Many thanks! Big Blue has been an adventure and welcome distraction from my day job. And yes, I'm definitely trying to keep my options open with Big Blue because lately KZbin has been really.. well.. lousy. Like, since June every video I release is massively underperforming my own averages. I see other creators are also getting lower view counts as well. I enjoy filming but it's a big process, and if YT is shutting you down within the first 60 seconds of a release, you kinda think.. ok, what's a better use of my time? So I don't want to change the bus *too* much, because I think after next year if I'm not seeing improvement, I'll probably take a walk and then the bus can become a proper mancave or RV or whatever.

[@chasonlapointe]

I love amateur vehicle restoration videos and watching people make uhauls into apartments on wheels. I can't wait to watch you clean her up!

[@garrickbrasil]

The wooden interior of that bus is beautiful. Grats on the bus, cant wait to see its progress

[@jdmcs]

That would be awesome if you could find the proper emergency door, and maybe even a proper drivers seat, but I’d probably ditch the kitchenette to maximize studio space. You could still use a cabinet or two to store some emergency preparedness items.

[@TechTimeTraveller]

I think those items will be a tall order - school buses aren't produced in the same volume as cars obviously and stuff from the 1960s has been mostly gone from years. What remains is either restored and driving or sitting rotting in some anonymous field somewhere. Hoping my video catches some eyeballs near similar year buses I can pilfer parts from. Yeah I'm having a think about the kitchenette. What I've done since the video is turn the old wood door that came with the bus into a table, which fits snugly between the dinette and the back of the bus. Actually kind of like it, although it dominates the space. I had wanted to put a couch or something back there so I could come in in the evening and read comfortably. But if I took the dinette out, I could put a small couch there also.. hmm.

[@naorunaoru]

It might be a Front Side Bus if it's in the front. Of anything really.

[@BrianRRenfro]

Almost every one of those electric oil filled radiator heaters eventually almost burns the house down with plug failing. I have had it happen to two myself and have picked up like half a dozen off the side of the road with scorched plugs. Most were the Delonghi ones. The molded plug they come with just isn't up to the task. Best to just lop it off right now and install a proper, heavy duty, Leviton or the like on there just for piece of mind. I think they have trouble more than others because the when they kick on they stay one longer than other designs heating up the thermal mass of the oil.

[@TechTimeTraveller]

@BrianRRenfro Really! I've had another DeLonghi for 20 years and no issue. That said, I have been a little paranoid and have been checking the plug every day because it is connected to an extension cord. The cord is a heavy duty unit and is plugged into a 15A GFCI. So far it seems downright cold to the touch, so I'm hoping it doesn't burn on me as I don't really have better options at the moment. But definitely will consider a plug change.

[@BrianRRenfro]

@@TechTimeTraveller I think it's when people use them more as primary heating where they run A LOT. I ran one for a decade as supplemental heater in a room and was fine. I put it into service in a shed and went out one morning to burned rubber stank and a scorched plug and outlet. I have never found any issues inside them when repairing, just the molded plug. Honestly I think the one in my unheated laundry room is STILL that one that smoked the plug on me decades ago and it's just fine! Almost all products these days seem to have woefully undersized power cords that are juuuuussssttt enough and that molded style plug is the weak link that fails.

[@jpTankMan]

What an amazingly cozy interior. I look forward to future videos inside and regarding ol' Big Blue.

[@hotlavatube]

Good luck on the new rig! That rusted out muffler reminds me of when I sold an old early 80s suburban to my brother. We signed the agreement, and my brother handed over the first of two payments. Upon going outside, we were shocked to find the muffler had split almost in two and parts were dangling. My brother never did make that second payment. (Never do business with family)

[@TechTimeTraveller]

I'm surprised the muffler has taken it so bad while the rest of the bus, especially considering its age, is in great shape! I'm guessing that's the original muffler, or this thing has way more miles than I thought!

[@hotlavatube]

@@TechTimeTraveller Well mufflers have very thin metal and are exposed to the worst of the elements kicked up by the rear wheels, so I guess it's no surprise they're pretty sacrificial, especially compared to the rest of that galvanized steel beast. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go look up more BIg Blue disks. ;-)

[@escgoogle3865]

Reminds me of the Grandfathers electronics workshop after his wife kicked it out of the house. A water stained leaky mossy caravan on the side of a Whatcom county hill. She let him keep his Amateur radio stuff inside. (whisky seven devious, best call sign every.) Still waiting for an I-5 crossover with Adrian.

[@FightGet]

almost an HOUR!? jkjk great video as always

[@NoxiousPluK]

Thanks once again for the more than awesome editing xD

[@ajax700]

Man, you would rock as the "Car time traveller". Classic cars I think have much more personality than computers. Amazingly, you did a very cool video about a truck that was more rat nest than school bus. Best wishes.

[@TechTimeTraveller]

@ajax700 Many thanks. I do love classic cars but they are (sometimes) much more expensive and always more space consuming. This felt like a good way to dip toes in both rivers so to speak.

[@senilyDeluxe]

But does it hit 88mph?

[@catriona_drummond]

I can very much relate to your feelings, sitting in your bus. As I said in another comment I rented a little shop in my town because that is very cheap here. And I have very similiar feelings about it. a cozy, place, a bit of a refuge, between all my computers and things, a small oasis of peace and quiet. I go there almost every day now, and even if i don't do something productive I just enjoy the peace with a cup of tea and some floppy formatting ASMR. Yeah and one day I'll conquer that scary video editing software. One day...

[@christopherdecorte1599]

You could make a simple cover for the sink stove counter so you can use the area as a table without destroying the original area

[@TechTimeTraveller]

Yeah I thought about building a wood cover that covers both .. just worried it might be a bit too tall.

[@christopherdecorte1599]

@TechTimeTraveller what's a few inches when the table space would be much more valuable in a small area.

[@draggonhedd]

I think you could definitely set up a good workbench in the back of the bus, or make a cover for the kitchenette that turns it into a workbench, with overhead lighting and cameras. I cant wait to see how you clean up the space

[@SockyNoob]

School buses are awesome. I was obsessed with them as a kid. I've always wanted to drive one and see old ones. Unfortunately they're rarely for sale and almost always end up being bought immediately or going straight to junk yards.

[@douro20]

If you put a temporary heater in the ammonia boiler on the refrigerator you might be surprised! Those things are as reliable as sunshine.

[@mitch95722]

Oh no. You have summarized all of my interests (besides homeDiY) in one video, vintage cars(90 Grand Wagoneer), model trains (HO + G) and computers (work for HP)

[@ObiWanBillKenobi]

I would call it the Big Blue Duck. That way it honors both your hobby and its previous name.

[@InfiniteLoop]

@4:40 RETRO WEASLE!!!!!

[@caseyjones1999]

Congratulations on the bus. I concur about how badly RVs are constructed. I have one look forward to the day I sell it. I'm going to replace it with a bus!

[@avalinah]

Really great video, enjoyed it a lot.

[@Doribi117]

Been looking into schoolies for a while, would love a bus tiny home

[@Drmcclung]

Now all you need is a $250 vintage LA 318/360 with electronic TBI ripped out of a later model Dodge (about as basic and simple as EFI & retrofits get!) and then you'd have a good and proper time traveling machine :)

[@cairsahrstjoseph996]

The Test Drive skit 😁 “Pass any low flying planes lately ?”

[@mfree80286]

Your wall outlets are female IEC60920 C15s, and... yes, there's probably a 'security through obscurity' function to it, but they were also common in small appliances like kettles. Their main claim to fame though, maybe it was the consideration here, is a temperature limit of 120C versus 70C for more 'normal' residential kit.

[@avalinah]

Using the door for the desk sounds cool

[@michaelstoliker971]

Well, now you've got a tech time machine. My classic vehicle addiction is limited to a collection of rust and odd technology known as the Triumph Spitfire. My Classic computer mania is kind of limited to the Atari line of computers and one sad and lonely C64.

[@TechTimeTraveller]

@michaelstoliker971 Believe me when I say, it's a good thing to have limits. I wish sometimes I'd been a little more careful about setting limits to my collecting and enforcing them. But it's also fun to go a little crazy. Man if only this bus could really time travel..

[@summerlaverdure]

heck yeah i love seeing people mod busses (steve wallis made a cool bus too), this is awesome

[@50shadesofbeige88]

Ayyy its the big blue bus.

[@colonelbarker]

I'm living though an Australian summer at the moment, and having spent many years of my life slowly dying from heat in a school bus growing up, I imagine they would be fun to spend time in without modern aircon. I think it's probably worth spending some time and money putting some nice controllable lights on the roof, or possibly a track/ rail for a camera so you're not moving a tripod about the place everywhere.

[@TechTimeTraveller]

Yes I'm hoping to find something like those new high powered 'garage' LED lights that can light up whole planets. Like in a thin flat panel format that doesn't take up might room. Ideally I'd like everything to be ceiling mounted such that I dint have to drag around equipment on tripods everywhere. I find it really frustrating to film while tripping on equipment.

[@colonelbarker]

@TechTimeTraveller it's a terrible hazard if you're filming and demonstrating together. The joys of youtube

[@old_liquid]

Idk how it's got to my scroll space but it was really good. Old tech mixed with old computers and fixing something. I this was me I would definitely try get it fixed and on the long end even make a kitchen block functional. You never know when you suddenly need a mug of fresh boiled coffee around a computer studio. If you dont want to fix its systems at least put it on stands so it doesn't touch the ground with its tires and make construction stable.

[@georgemaragos2378]

Hi, Pretty cool, just quickly flicking through while i am at work , so you may have answered my question in video Quick question, why not get a older caravan, it has been on my bucket list for 20 years, when the wife says "do what you like" i have learnt that is the last thing she means The caravan is considered not a fixture if it is portable, and you can make is park-able with just some simple gravel and large pavers where the wheels and stands are, you can run power to it and even park it under a carport or lean to and still comply with most councils ( adding water via garden hose is ok, but connecting to sewer system is considered permanent ) I am based in Australia, and almost every council allows a "Granny Flat" a self contained mini home that you can legally have in your back yard as long as you have the minimum land - say 450 square meters ( some new estates are shrinking that to 280sm ) You can legally rent them out as well due to the ongoing rental housing, but if you have large land, you are limited to one per home land title so if you have a 2000sm yard still just one In Additional they allow a 'Studio' as well - it cannot be larger than the granny flat, but the limitation is you cannot live in it 24/7 or rent it out as 'Habitable' - most people use it as a outdoor kitchen / kids play room, emergency bedroom / sick room / lounge room / theatre room / pool change area and shower - toilet - so pretty much one room Square meter is slightly larger than square yard, 36 inches to the foot and 39 to the meter so max 10% larger Regards George

[@catriona_drummond]

Oh come on, I just got into youtubing. Just about haven't started. I rented a small shop for my stuff and now half the town wants me to repair their modern laptops.

[@Sparkington9]

I think big blue suit the bus. Honestly getting running would be awesome. I'm sure if reach out to car community they might have a solution to the wheels.

[@Karmy.]

I dream of someday owning an Edsel or 2, always have loved how they look

[@domramsey]

School buses are a peculiarly North American thing. In most of the rest of the world kids tend to get regular buses or trains - or just walk or cycle to school. It's always weird for a European to see those old fashioned giant yellow bricks in movies and on TV.

[@TechTimeTraveller]

Yes I didn't realize how North American they are until recently. I'm guessing it's just America being vast and spread out. City buses aren't an option in a lot of places due to lack of density. And then once they started building school buses, Americas's passion for standardizing things took over.

[@mryon314159]

re: the name...The Data Bus? Sorry, I retract the terrible joke.

[@tigrafrog]

@5:45 MICE-mice-Mice!!! You will need metric ton of steel wool and probably $4k worth of foam to mouse-proof that thing.

[@Dark_eVader]

The only thing that's missing now would be old spirits that go bump in the night and you find stuff moved around that wasn't there before.

[@TechTimeTraveller]

It actually has had some weird wood tapping noises that I cannot find the source of. Honestly I can deal with ghosts.. its the bears that make me a little anxious.

[@Dark_eVader]

@@TechTimeTraveller Yup bears would be scary compared with ghosts which can sometimes be comforting companions.

[@robertusa1234]

VeryVGG inspired

[@jefferyb304]

It would be so nice to see this bus drivable again. Dodge discontinued their school bus chassis many years ago making Dodge school buses a bit on the rare tip.

[@TechTimeTraveller]

I honestly didn't know Dodge even offered a chassis for school buses. Never even realized Chrysler had a medium to heavy duty truck line. Never saw their stuff in the road.

[@Dinnye01]

My god, Edd China would love this one 😁 maybe you should give him a call. This is prime real estate if you have the elbow grease.

[@trekintosh]

Wait, you’re an N scale man too? Wtf, you really are who I want to be when I grow up!!

[@50shadesofbeige88]

Tech Road Traveller

[@Thiesi]

4:45 - You should have looked at the cost in USD, CHF, EUR, or GBP then - chances are, that would have gotten it well below 20k.

[@TechTimeTraveller]

Not in our area. I live in the most expensive real estate corridor in Canada. Every contractor is busy and charges a premium, if they show up at all. It's not just the structure but electrical, permits etc. It adds up very fast around here.

[@wotsac]

After watching the driving segment I'm thinking - winter nights here are long and old video projectors are cheap. Really... the only limit is your imagination.

[@TechTimeTraveller]

I was thinking, at some point it will be cheap to have custom LCD panels made. I thought it'd be fun to fit those into the windows and then be able to play games like Stunts or go for a voyage in space or whatever. Like the old Tour of the Universe thing they had at the CN tower.

[@wotsac]

@ the LCD panel is definitely getting in to the Not Expensive territory. But projectors are dead cheap, at least down here in Seattle where we have good eWaste vendors

[@pikadroo]

That squirrel’s seen some stuff. 🐿️

[@TechTimeTraveller]

He was a little unnerving IRL lol

[@hurricane567]

So you were playing old PC games in a bus that used to be a camper and thinking about all the things that happened in that bus? How about "Leisure Suit Larry goes to Burning Man"?

[@NullUndefined1337]

WTF XD the "crack squirrel" has some major problems man Oo

[@jakester1390]

I think you should remove the kitchen and use the old door as a new countertop. That's just my 2 cents. Excited to see what you have in store. Thanks for another great video! should name it the "data bus" or "unibus"?

[@TechTimeTraveller]

I've actually set up the door as a table at back. I'll show that off sometime but KZbin is really tanking this video so probably will do it elsewhere like on my website.

[@saberpeep]

I havent even watched the video yet, but you better sell that bus before you end up sinking untold amounts of money into it. Just look up other youtube bus projects and how they end on episode 500 with them giving up due to lack of time and funds and a bus in worse shape then when they bought it.

[@TechTimeTraveller]

@saberpeep That's why I bought this one in particular. It has the interior work already done, all I've done is clean it up and make it habitable. And so far it seems to be working. I think my total spend including the bus is less than $4k. It doesn't need to move anywhere for a while.

[@bonekuhobonekuho2658]

When you discovered the rat nest under the dash area I was really hoping/expecting some sort of rat nesting cartoon. It's not too late to still create one. Please....

[@derekchristenson5711]

Neat! Better you than me cleaning out all that rat poop, though. 🤮 I think I'd have to burn the bus after seeing that, LOL. (Not really; that's probably illegal and dangerous.) The wood interior is really neat, and I agree that it would be a shame to dismantle the kitchenette. I am quite puzzled by the apparently useless wood stove, though. Sure, it looks quaint, but the whole point of a wood stove or fireplace is to be able to cozy up by with a nice fire going! In such a small place, it seems like an odd waste of space to install it and not connect the flue for real. Those electrical outlets are a surprising design choice as well and make me want to plug in a whole lotta monitors. ;-) Good luck on the project!

[@TechTimeTraveller]

Thanks! My guess on the stove is that it was purely decorative. This bus was located at a lake in the Cariboo region of BC and was used as a bed and breakfast. I'm guessing no one used it during winter and in summer you'd have a fire outside. I think the stove has seen some use in the past but probably not in the bus.

[@osgeld]

I like bus stuff

[@BradinSiouxCity]

jack the thing up and put it on jack stands, get the tires off the ground

[@bzuidgeest]

A bug out bus that doesn't run... Yeah.

[@JimLeonard]

I see a mirrorless camera with at least two different wide-angle lenses in your future.

[@TechTimeTraveller]

Tempting! A lot will depend on if I can reverse the channel's decline. Every video I release now, within 60 seconds KZbin is telling me it's underperforming my averages by 50%. It's just not giving out impressions anymore no matter how good the CTR and retention numbers are. So I'm thinking this year I'll make a push, hoping having some space will help, but if not I'll close shop and just use that money to get my mancave back on the road!

[@JimLeonard]

@@TechTimeTraveller Well, hey, don't get discouraged by KZbin's notices: You had a video go viral (Miniscribe bricks) and that has skewed the metrics for everything else. Don't look at it as "decline"; you're certainly not losing subscribers for example. Just stay the course and give it another year, and re-evaluate after that.

[@Spritetm]

Wrt the name: Given the fact that you can't seem to be able to designate it to one project, it needs to be 'universal', and since your computer storage is elsewhere and you probably don't have enough space for multiple projects at once, you need to do them in a 'serial' fashion, so maybe call your computer... okay, I'll stop now.

[@tigrafrog]

call it Ratzilla.

[@bzuidgeest]

Iec c15 as it's the female plug. C16 would be male version of not mistaken. Though I have not seen them in outlets, is what the modern world used for power plugs on devices like computer power supplies and about anything else needing an ground a some power. before usb-c/USB-pd started taking over. America has one of the worst socket designs known to man.

[@tolentarpay5464]

You're a ferret guy!? Dear God NO!! You do know ferrets are of the Devil, don't you? ;~ ]

[@ChrisJackson-js8rd]

sell the door to yuppies from vancouver for $texas lol

[@HainjeDAF]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/b5_JaJ2eoLOVps0&pp=ygUZbWFkb25uYSB3aGVlbHMgb24gdGhlIGJ1cw%3D%3D

[@TechTimeTraveller]

@HainjeDAF That. Is Awesome.

[@andrewdunbar828]

Byte Bus

[@LaLaLand.Germany]

Maybe "Little Stinker"? The wood all over is so cool. It found a good home- that´s nice. Don´t overthink it- it´s a good bus for what it is. Maybe hook up with "BusGreaseMonkey"- if ther´s something to know about old buses: He´s the Guy.

[@henkbarnard1553]

I would make the kitchenette functional. Idk about the rest