It's certainly been an interesting summer. After dealing with house business in MA my attention turned to doubling down on the old SportCam project. Plus a return to one of my favorite stomping grounds, the White Mountain National Forest. Camping an hour from Conway, NH afforded a great selection of stores for materials and supplies to facilitate the project. Including a Camping World, which just happened to be running a big sale on air conditioners.
We interrupt the irregular schedule of updates on the old SportCam project to mark another ceremonious occasion. Since hitting the road in 2011 this Recreation Engineer feels fortunate. I enjoy a remarkable lifestyle in part thanks to my trusty sidestand steed, Half Pint. Despite an overlong hibernation in storage for several years, she's back.
"Let the good times roll."
--The Cars
Yep. Half Pint just rolled 40,000 miles. For a typical car or truck that's nothing these days. Barely broke on. However, for a
Progress on the old SportCam project continued with leak fixing. The loft had two vents. A big hatch that flipped open as an escape hatch. And a fan to circulate fresh air.
Both leaked.
Can you believe the SportCam had nine windows? That's a lot of potential leak points. Upper and lower panes (that didn't open) in the door were fine. A small pass-through window under the loft was permanently "closed" (ahem) with silicone and plexiglass. That solution should work until an eventually more camper friendly truck motivates replacing that window. Maybe. Someday. Meanwhile, three down. Six to go.
Next tackled were the pair of small slider windows up in the loft on each side at the head and foot of the bed. Both leaked pretty bad. The rubber trim around the edges shrank and pulled away from the metal frame. Mostly in the tightest, lower front corners. But also in the mid butt joints on top and bottom.
Our storage facility has a community junk pile. Locals leave scrap metal which eventually gets recycled. I noticed an old propane tank so asked Ms Sara. She said I could have anything I could use. The first step was removing the float valve; aka overflow protection device (OPD).
