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[Music]
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hey everyone welcome back to the live stream tonight we're going to be finishing up our acrylic panel that we were uh upholstering last night and then
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we're also going to uh move camera and then we're going to come over here to this side and we're going to work on the
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driver rear door carrier so we got one from Flatline vanco uh let's see I'm going to go ahead
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and pull that up so not sponsored but I did want to
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kind of tie the whole van in with the whole van uh flatl vanco theme so we get a lot of interior parts if you guys have
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not seen the build on the van that we're currently working on but the components we got work from fline
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vanco so let me show you the Tire Rack that we're going to be working with it's
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this Transit rear tire carrier so we're going to be putting that on the van
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tonight and uh I've already started probably moved um halfway through it and
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there's some challenges that you guys might face when you're installing it so I wanted to make sure that I cover those
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it has to do with the door brackets and then we're going to go through on some rest preventative stuff that I had to
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grind and then repaint uh the drill drill location for
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the door you have to actually drill through the door to bolt the tire carrier and all that stuff so we're
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going to do it after we finish up with the upholstered panel so let's go ahead
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and jump on over there so this is where we were uh yesterday afternoon and if you
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guys can see we we actually have the the upholstered panel epoxied
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in uh I did uh a first run of epoxy try to clean all this
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up you know there's work getting done when there's just like a mess everywhere so I almost don't get mad at it because
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it's it means progress um let's clean all this up
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here so let's see let's see if the camera can zoom in just a little bit so
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I can show you guys what I'm talking about all right so here's our
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panel and what we did yesterday was we finished upholstering the whole entire
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panel so that it looks uh nice and neat all over edges are super clean and we've
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got our screw holes covered up which we are going to cut out today to mount it
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uh I already took off the protective plastic so now we just got the clean
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piece of acry IC and I went through last night and I did a first pass of epoxy
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now the reason I'm doing two passes is because when you have Fabric and you're working with
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um uh you know upholstery in general it's going to absorb the adhesive or
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anything you put in there that's you know essentially like a liquid so when you use these uh JB Weld clear weld
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sticks and you're putting it through here if you put too much uh you can
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overwhelm the fabric and it's going to absorb it and it actually might come out the other side it'll just keep sucking
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it up and then it'll come out the other side and that's really bad you've ruined your whole panel so you don't want to do
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that so instead what I do is I do a first pass and it kind of it'll set the
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piece of acrylic and then we'll come back and then I can fill up the channel one more
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time and then that uh sets everything in there and it's not going anywhere
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because the way to do these panels there's no room to nail or have some type of finishing cover on it because uh
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it would just it's just too much uh this worked out really well uh and the Marine one pan
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conversion that we did for Thomas and so I'm doing it for this build as well the exciting part today is we get to put
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on the vinyl graphic so our Odyssey custom vans etched glass vinyl so this
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is a simulated etch glass and the way that you would get um the Graphics
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Company in your local area to do something like this is you say I want the ET glass vinyl and then reverse it
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or like kind of invert it because what you want to do to have this effect is you want the adhesive on the front of
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the letters so that when you put it on the vinyl is behind the acrylic that's
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the that's the secret that's how it makes it it look like it's you know uh like laser laser etched into the
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panel um so what we're going to do today besides everything I was just saying is
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we're going to show you how I Square this up which is is pretty
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straightforward but you know something like this where you get so far you don't want to mess up uh I'll show you what
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I'm doing to not mess up uh we're going to put the logo here
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so we'll need to clean it I've got this piece of tape up here to indicate the top of my panel just so I
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don't forget the orientation because our screw holes that are covered here we got to remember these screw holes underneath
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here um they're hidden so we'll have to cut them out with a raiser before we actually install the panel and its final
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home but I went ahead and took the panel put it in the van and these pieces of blue tape is where the 8020 bar runs
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across the panel so I want to make make sure that I know what that offset is and
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that way I can start measuring how far I want to come off this Edge and up to do
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my height and then I'll do my left to right and then once we know that's where it's
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at we'll we'll do is we'll WP this down with Windex we'll clean everything up
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we'll tape our graphic down on this side
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and then we'll kind of start from the right go to the left and then just kind
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of lay it on um yours will probably be newer this has
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been sitting for a while so I'm hoping that uh the adhesive is okay on this
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part because um it's been on the shelf for a minute uh but the thing is it's a vinor
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graphic so if it messes up we can uh we just get we can just peel it back off
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get another one printed but yeah that actually kind of been open a little bit I just now saw that all right well we'll
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see how we do so that's the first thing we're going to do in this panel then we're going to cut out the holes and
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when we're done I'll move the camera and we'll jump on to the uh rear tire
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carrier and we'll start messing with it so the rear tire carrier is looks like
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this this is what it looks like so we have a bracket up here on the
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top bracket on the bottom there's a little supporting bracket that I'll show
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you uh this part right over here on the right side this little bracket this is
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the complicated part
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um and that goes inside the door so yeah that'll be pretty cool oh
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yeah so go and do this acry TRC panel I don't know if I have showed you a video
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this is going in the uh spec build van for the shop so it has a different it
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has the Renegy power system so what this panel is going to do is it's going to uh
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cover the victron links distributor the uh
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the Renegy Rigo 3000 watt inverter and the two DC todc Chargers so it actually
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it's not the Eco ecoflow system yet um but I may do acrylic on the Eco flow
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so I think you've already given me that idea now do the do the signature acrylic
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uh because it looks pretty cool not sure yet but yeah tonight we're the acrylic
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is for the Renegy system I will look into doing it for the uh
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ecoflow anyway this is our tire carrier and we've got a kind of B B everything up so the goal is by the end of this
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live stream tonight I will get that tire carrier bolted up and I can check it off my to-do list um and in the meantime you
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guys are here to ask all the questions that you would uh uh like to ask if you have any any
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questions but um we're going to hop over here to this camera and let me let's see here okay
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I'm going to start measuring so so everything's good nothing crazy over
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here what we're going to do now is we're going to make sure we got some painters
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tape uh we're going to take our measuring tape and I just want to get a rough estimate of how high so we've got
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8 and 1/2 Ines so it's 8 and 1 12 inches right there and then it should be 8 and 1/2
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right here okay bingo so we got 8 and 1/2 in that is
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is this direction so our two pieces of tape are Level which makes sense they
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should be we we didn't do anything crazy when we were uh building this all the
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measurements are very very simple so now what I'm going to do is I'm going to lightly take a piece of
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tape I'm going to tape it from this end to this end and we don't want the middle
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to stick yet kind of want it to
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we want to lay down because this is what we're going to use to reference off
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of so let's see here we're measuring from the top not what I did before so this
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measurement is going to be different so I got 10 and an e and 10 and an
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eighth
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so let's check our
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middle okay so that is we can set this in
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place all right this is what we're going to use uh we're going to do one more piece
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of tape um and that will come up off of
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this and that we're essentially just centering this
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all right so we got a half inch there and let's do a half inch on the
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top so it looks like we're going to leave it just like
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that so we're only going to use the bottom as our reference and then we'll
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do our left or right because we have um an half an inch plus
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one two three four so we got 58s on the top right here and then we've got half inch here
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above the bar but I I'd rather have this uh down just a hair because when
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you look at a graphic if this is too high cuz you're going to be looking up high and it'll be at an angle so if we
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move it down a little bit lower it's going to actually look like it's actually more
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correct if that makes sense all right so we're going to do
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that let's go ahead and get some tape and I'm going to measure a/ inch
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up from here and we want to be careful we've taken our protection off of the acrylic
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so we don't want our our tape measure scratch scratching this
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up okay so there's our half
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inch forgot to go to Home Depot and get more tape so I'm using the extra tape
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from yesterday yesterday's live stream okay so that's our B base of our
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graphic all right just make sure this thing does not snap back
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let's lock lock the tape measure it's going to come under
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here all
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right so I'm sure if you did this you'll have completely different measurements but if you guys are curious I'm at
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nine 9 and 1 12
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in
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okay so our top to Bottom's good now we just need to get our left to
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right
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this one's going to be tricky because I folded this up
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and
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it just it's kind of it's wrinkled the graphic's fine but it's I'm just it's
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been on the shelf for a couple months actually if you can believe
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it all right so this is the ball this is
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ballpark
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you guys can also see why I like masking tape instead of painters tape painters it just doesn't
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hold it's
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annoying just need to slap some tape on here
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it's an inch and a half and an inch and
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38 inch and 38
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yeah this is where the process gets tedious all right so let's pick this
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up this right side is the main this is the
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main side that I want to worry about I'm not really worried about the back side so we got this at an inch and a
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half
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because what I'm going to do is I'm going to find where I need to be on the right side I'll put a piece of tape and then I'm just going to I'll just go from
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there just kind of have to go for it all right so
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this okay we got an inch and a
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quarter
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all
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right
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so what I'm doing here is I'm trying to to get my line for my inch and
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38 starting
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point which is not easy right
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now okay actually that looks good okay so we got
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an engine 38 eight two and
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78 2 and 78 2 and 78 okay so now we finally got
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our our Corner over here that's good
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n and a half n and a half 2 and 78 2 and 78
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okay
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all right let's see how many people we got in the chat tonight all right not bad or the live
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stream I think most people don't get on till about 9: anyway if you guys are just joining us
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we are working on an acrylic panel that we are doing some vinyl graphics on with
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the company logo for a custom van build and we are just cleaning
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everything up so that we can uh apply the graphic
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we have a etched glass of my company
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logo and this one's going to be a little bit more challenging than the other one simply
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because I let this get wrinkled uh on the shop
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shelf as I was doing other things and yeah it's not going to be as easy as the
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first one which I could have when you're working with Graphics it's it's it's good to to if you uh can tape the whole
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graphic down and then as you work with the graphic you begin to
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uh you know peel it off and then and then align it but this one I got a couple of things
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going against me
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um let's see here the way that they put the paper on it inch and a
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half inch and a half see that's not so they cut this outside paper
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random so I was trying to get a straight edge and I kept messing up over here and the reason is this top piece actually
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kind of goes up this bottom piece is down and then goes up at a taper and
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this backs side has like a slash to it so really all I have to go off of at the
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current moment is going to be this um
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uh my actual logo you you'll see it when I peel this
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back um yes let me clean this one more time make sure we got a
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really clean lintree
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surface
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okay already got some goop over
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here don't know what that
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is
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there a little drop of epoxy
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probably okay there we
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go all right next thing you want to do is go wash your hands get all your get
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all the oils off your hands as much as you can
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I don't like to put gloves on CU I like to feel the material uh cuz the gloves can kind of
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they just get in my way so if I just make sure my hands are really clean and not oily or greasy I just go with
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that all right here we go let's move this
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down I'm G move the camera don't worry guys just need this a little bit closer to me
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for so I don't mess
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up
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for all right here we go let's put the graphic
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on measured twice cut whats right so we get 9 and A2 9 and A2 9 and
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A2 we are coming off of this thing at 2 and 78 all right so two and 78 over
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there what was this thing measuring at 2 and 78 and the graphic is
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actually 31 in 31 is right
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there see so I'm starting this at an inch let do
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it just need to mark one more
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thing so down here in the bottom I'm going to mark an inch and a
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half okay and then over here I'm going to me measure an inch and a
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half because the paper is not what we're going off of the graphic is what we're going off of and so
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where you can actually start to mess up is you start following the paper not the graphic trying to get the paper
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straight and because we were paying attention uh the paper is not
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right so what's this going to look like if we do
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this okay so what I'm going to do is I'm
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going to put a piece of tape going put one more piece of tape
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here and that tape needs to be just like this other one
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so so let's put this up here so we can mark on it all right so I put this at an
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inch and a half and then right here we need another
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dot inch and a half okay then we're going to have a piece of paper and now when I put the graphic on here I'm
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putting this edge of my logo right on the piece of tape and then I'm just going from
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there that way I don't mess myself up all right there we
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go so now we should be kicking
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butt all right so the final triple check is going to be this
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is fine over here it's this uh part of our logo that we want to be Center between the
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8020 so we've got 3/4 of an inch there and I have a half an inch oh wait
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no I already we already talked about that half an inch here
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so half an inch
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and 58 not 3/4 58s so we are we already
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talked we're good
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okay now when we take this off we're going to roll the uh
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we're actually going to take it under off under this way and then we'll just
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get this uh this will be our anchor kind of like
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that and then we'll just we'll just work the graphic down like
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this and unfortunately in this case we have to make sure that we don't use our
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white piece of paper as the what we're doing to uh
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level this out because it'll it'll steer us the wrong
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way okay so what I'm going to do is get a couple more pieces of tape and I'm just going to hold this
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down
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temporarily okay I'm trying to set this up to teach
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you guys and do it at the same time so give me just one
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minute okay looking good let's take this
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out so what I'm doing is I'm giving me little bit of room to start to work with
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so now we've exposed the graphic and we're going to get ready to put it on and we're going to do this in
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one go because we don't want to have bubbles so once it goes down we're not lifting back up to to to fix anything or
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straighten
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anything
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man this is not like the other
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one
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okay I'm unfortunately I'm going to have to use the piece of paper right here it's straight on this side I
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just
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okay the problem I have is this right here is fine this is straight perfect but now as I come across what you want
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to do is you don't want to have the graphic drift left or right and because they didn't cut this Square I needed to
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measure where it says custom vans and make sure it's the same from the top down so hopefully if you are getting
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your vinyl graphics done you don't run into this problem make sure that they cut it nice and
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even uh because this is just a kind of pain in the butt as you guys just saw um
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not having a place to actually uh a way to actually lock this
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in square so I'm just putting tape on here
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so I it doesn't
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move
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just remembered I have my uh Amazon kit that I ordered for the the graphics and
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we've got these nice really nice felt scrapers
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so I'm going to use my hands and then I'll come back with the felt uh let's do a little update let's
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check the other
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side okay still looks
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good
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and the only reason we're taking our time is air bubbles we don't want any
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air getting in
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here all right our tape gave up on us so
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hopefully let's just measure what we just did so far so we got our little place right
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here and that's at
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s s and an eighth let's come over
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here
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for one two three four 58 sorry can't read
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seven and 58s seven and
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58 seven
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five8
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so now we're making sure that this this uh dashed line is 7 and 5/8 from
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here and right
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there now when we get to the end we're going to want to release the tape because what
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the problem that'll happen is uh this roll will be in there and we
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need to make sure the Y comes up before we get to
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it a little check
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in
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okay
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for
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for
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for
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that
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that
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there's a point to where you can't really fix what you did and you can just rip it off and go
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but uh I'm just going to they it nice and
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easy all right so I did get a I got a little
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bubble on the S right
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there ah it's not a bubble dang it hold
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on we got a piece of trash in there all right let me see if I can show
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you guys how to okay okay we're going have
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to to do it from the top
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here
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nah we're not going to be able to fix it we can fix it when we come back we'll
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we'll go back and we'll go back and clean it
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up I'll take one of those razors and do a little surgery on
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it but I was saying earlier is when you're this close to the
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end you really can't change the angle or anything I mean you're already done you're done with the graph
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we almost had it perfect almost had it perfect we can still fix it but you
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know I would like to it to have been a Flawless just
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application okay so let's see if we can flip this up
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you you probably can't see anything until I take it off here you
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go there's our etch and looks like we did
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okay just going to measure a couple things can't do anything about it but I just wanted to see if it
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actually came out 13 and a quarter okay yep I
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think all right so we're now we're going to peel off
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this backing uh piece of
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paper just make sure all of our stuff is down and then we're going to come in
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and see if we can fix that that
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s but here is the reveal
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so I'm going just do this let's see where is that bump you don't want to hit the bump so it's down here at the base
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of the S right here okay so I'm just going to mark
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that right here the worst thing you can do is take this and run over a bump because you
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could tear it we're just going to come in and make sure we want to make sure that our
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graphic is fully stuck on there because we don't want to remove any part of the graphic if it's like a little letter or
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an ie or like a dotted eye because when we take this paper
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off uh the pre-masking tape it could actually pull up what we
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just did so all right the reveal here we
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go
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in a minute you guys will see why I was so tedious with
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this or hopefully you'll see it see
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why
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and just watch as you peel this off cuz if you accidentally catch an edge you can push it back down before you
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actually tear it and really mess it up things like S's and stuff like that
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tend to sometimes mess up now on
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this s we're either going to do one of two things going to do the old school
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and just pop it with a little bit of a razor blade or we're actually going to see if we can fix it
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um of course now I don't even see where it
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is oh it's on the other yeah it's the other
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side okay so right where is
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that I don't want to say it disappear but I
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can't you don't see it where' he
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go
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okay I'm just pushing on this e because
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we and this n cuz we pulled up on it and probably shouldn't have done that
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but we we did all right there you
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go that is our etched
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glass think it looks freaking awesome got a little bump right there a
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little bubble
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okay so one little micro bubble there I'm probably going to leave
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it yeah okay let's get let's get this tape off and then do a proper
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reveal
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okay for the moment we're not going to clean that cuz just don't don't mess with what you
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just did yet just give it a
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second all right
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camera we're going to be looking at this
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anyway
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for
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okay we got our six holes um grab I think I kept the bolts right over
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here that's okay we got a ton of them over here we go
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grab
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all right guys what I'm going to do is I'm going to end the live stream I'm going to reset the camera we're going to
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pop up into a new live stream um that way it's just easier if you guys want to
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go back and watch the videos it'll be they'll be separate uh before we end I wanted to go over quickly the DIY van
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build cheat sheet this is a an Excel sheet that I made over 250 curated items
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of parts that I've bought while working in the shop so if you're looking for parts for your DIY build and you want a
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list to start from this list is completely free you can download it right here on the website just put your
56:35
name email address it'll come straight to your inbox and yeah just real quick it's an Excel sheet of all these items that I
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bought on Amazon and they're all organized electrical Fasteners Hardware hbac Roofing solar and the most
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important section is the tool section so if you guys are interested in this sheet all you got to do is go to fuer hq.com
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or click in the link in the description below and you guys can get this free uh always adding to it it's always going to
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grow um throughout the years so download it to uh yeah help you with
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your van build start and then last but not least this is
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also Odyssey custom vans brought to you by Odyssey custom vans my van building business which I'm doing right
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now if you guys want to check out the van that we've been working on which is this uh a drive four Transit High roof
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we took it to the adventure van Expo in Chattanooga
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Tennessee so there's a video walkr if you guys want to hop on the website and check out a video walking through the
57:43
van we got a couple more things we're finishing up on it but if you're interested in looking further we got all
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the details on the website we've got photos here of the build and and if you're interested in
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purchasing this because it is for sale you can contact me here at sales Odyssey customs.com that's my phone number
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easiest way is to click on the calendar link and pick a day and a time hop on a
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call with me and we'll walk through this build also if you're looking for a professional build you can click on the
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same link and cck on this left tab and it'll give you some instructions on how we put together a consultation for you
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to start working on putting the project together if you're interested so easiest way but that's going to wrap it up for
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finishing up this acrylic panel to go over in the battery system if you guys want to see the final version just go to
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the uh next live stream after this video um and we will be continuing the build
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working on the rear tire carrier uh and then that will be the end of our shot live shop build tonight so thanks so
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much for uh staying T this far into the video If you like this video uh give us a thumbs up make sure you guys are
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subscribed to Van Builder hq's YouTube channel if you have any questions put those in the comments below and uh yeah
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I'll see you guys in the next live [Music]
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stream
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