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I've moved into my parents' two-car garage for the winter to keep working. My little 10'x10' shop won't cut it anymore. I'm going to install an electric heater so that I can apply the body panels using 3m VHB tape at the minimum recommended temperature of 10 degrees Celsius / 50 Fahrenheit.
I've also decided to break my silence and talk through what you're seeing as well. Please let me know if I'm missing things you're interested in hearing about.
Again, the goal is to build a durable bicycle camper with its own electric motor in the front wheel working in tandem with my towing cargo bicycle for an all-wheel-drive economical world-travel machine.
Here I start welding the top body frame. I'm welding directly to the main frame bed for a monocoque design - should be quite strong! Maybe even keep a bear out long enough to reach the bear spray.
Next, it looks like I'll have to make my own stabilizer legs using aluminum stock square tubing and my local machine shop to get a nice tight fit between the two tubes telescoping within each other. I can't find anything after-market that isn't too heavy and overkill.
After the electric heater is installed, and stabilizer legs sorted, I'll sheath the entire thing with aluminum composite panels. I'll use a V-groove router bit specifically made to cut grooves in this material which allow you to bend it up to 45 degrees and have less seams overall = less points of potential leakage in the future and less trim work at the end.