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all right guys welcome back to the live stream glad to have you it's been a minute we've been knocking out this van
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and just pushing through to the end for delivery day so uh I know and Susan are
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very eager to get this done but I want to take a pause because I'm getting ready to put the last piece of Cedar in
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and it kind of uh does a full circle with uh how I'm doing this kind of
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behind the scenes um so if you're trying to figure out how to contour and Scribe
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lines onto different pieces of wood and then take that and actually make it look nice in your van so you look like you
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did a professional job if you're doing it DIY that's what we're going to go over today um so we're going to just look
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inside the van and I'll show you uh this top right section over
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here so uh let's just hop in the van and then
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I'll I'll go over this um if you guys are wondering what this piece of wood here is this is the partition that is
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being uh fabricated so this will be the partition between the bed
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as well as the um you know kitchen area
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microwave stuff like that uh but this needs to be centered and squared off first so everything can be built off of
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that into the kitchen Gall area all right so enough of that that is what that is let's
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um let's get this camera where we want it and then we'll hop in the
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van okay all right hop into the van and as
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always guys if you have any questions make sure you put those in the chat um and we'll uh I'll try to answer them
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for you so inside the van here uh what we've been using is a 1/4 in
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Cedar uh planks um so they are grooved so they or
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they're interlocking and I start started in the middle and I work my way to the outside
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and then speaking of templates the way that I get all of the holes
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drilled is I have a
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master uh piece of wood right here and what this does is it has all the all the
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holes pre-drilled and lined off and then also the direction of the wood which way
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it's going cuz obviously you need the groove on one side and so what gets complicated and I think
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this will really help you on your build if you're doing the same thing even if you're doing slided ceiling uh or you're
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doing um like Tong tongue of groove or you wanted to do the
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uh uh I'm trying to think what it's called it's like a staggered ceiling with like the the black part in the
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middle um it'll come to me in a second anyway the challenge is when you drill a hole you usually get blowout on
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the back side so what this template does is it keeps you on the good side so what
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it does is it allows the good piece of wood so this is the final piece we're actually putting in right here today on
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the live stream allows you to take this piece of wood and drill through it and
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then you control the blowout that happens on the back side which is what's glued to the top of the ceiling so that
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will uh help you with appearance this template also helps you
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with the the screw holes um one thing that I'm very picky on is make sure all the screws line up so every single one
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of these have been templated which means the screw is in the exact location and
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the template is going to be is is really important when we get to these uh places
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where we have to scribe out around these uh Ford blobs and so if you can imagine
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this first one that we cut and I'll Zoom let me zoom in the camera
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but that first one's easy because you have you can still have you have a remainder of the starting
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material uh you've got a piece of the material that you you started
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with so it makes it easier to measure
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from so for example right here is our ceiling and
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then right here is the next piece that's cut so this piece piece can still align
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and you're going to have the same exact length but when we move to the next one you don't have a reference anymore so
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now you're having to uh reference from the back which is very hard so what I
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did was I went and made a paper
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template and so let's see
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here
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so I've got a paper template looks like this and so what this does is it keep
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gives me like an imaginary um that's not same there we go gives me like an imaginary line right here so that I can
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measure from here and then trace my line once I trace my line this part right
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here is going to be this part right here is going to be cut off so this
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part is going to be removed but because I kept this on a template this is my
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starting point so after I get cut off the point in the very back of the van
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can remain the same uh and that way it's just it's just an easier way to to do it
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um let me change over to my phone here it's got to
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be removed but because I on
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template after I get cut off point in the very back of
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theand the same okay and that way just an easier way to there we go all right
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so we got our phone working let's get back in the
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van so your first cut around this blob if you're doing it this way is easy
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straightforward um you're just going to take a piece of paper and you want
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to put the paper up here and then kind of smush it in this corner and it'll grab this
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Edge and then you can take this and you can apply it to your three pieces first
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piece is going to be here simple cut second one is more complex and then if
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you're doing the same thing that I'm doing this final one um you could cheat a little bit because this doesn't have
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to be a contoured cut it can just be straight so what we've done is we've measured this one
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straight and that has given us uh this piece right here so this is our final
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piece that goes in here and we also want to make sure that there's a smooth side and a rough
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side and uh our smooth side we want to make sure that that goes
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in correctly so I actually need to
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flip this [Music]
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around let's see
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here okay actually have one more hole to drill but that's
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okay we've got our template so it's going to make it really easy so let me reset the
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camera and we're actually going to install this piece and then we'll see if you guys have any questions so camera's
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going to go crazy for a second hold on
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okay all right we're going to be over here
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okay that should give you a good view of the whole
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process so let's the last hole that I I forgot
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about and we'll keep on working on
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this I was drill this last hole and I was like you know what I need to do a live [Applause]
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stream okay we're just going to set our so this piece this is the last time it'll be
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used so we can set that aside um make sure we have all our ZIP wall uh pieces
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in place so that we can so I use these to hold up these
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pieces so they're spring loaded and then you can just put them in and hold
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up a piece of wood you just want to have those ready to
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go um see where my glues in the back let's get our glues and screws now
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we're using a tight Bond original glue um as far as my research goes you don't
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want to use uh the waterproof version
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because uh the bonding strength is actually not as hard now this is just my
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research but there's like this red bottle then there's a green and a blue I
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think you want to use the
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red and this glue does not need to be waterproof because uh it's not going to rain inside
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the van so
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um see all right there they
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are so we're using a 1 in uh stainless steel black
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painted sheet metal screws and then uh there's we're using two inch and a half
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on certain sections that need to go into the uh
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crossmember
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okay so I'm just doing a last little final test
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fit
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this is a good example to show you guys cuz this is really this is really tough for what I'm doing just cuz it's it's a
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oneoff ceiling uh so if it takes a lot of
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patience a lot of patience because the wood is so uh thin That these channels
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if you're not if you try to force anything you're going to split it and you're going to have to start all over
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again um I'm trying to find you're also going to need some type
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of uh piece of wood something to have like a little lever action as well as a
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rubber mallet CU we're going to have
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to coorse this piece of wood to go into its home the challenge about building
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in a van is you have a forward curve on a Ford Transit that's fairly aggressive
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here as well as a curve here so you you get two curves and they don't want to
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play well and then over here you got this so we got we're going to be under
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compression and we got a slide in the channel and we got glue we didn't want to get the glue anywhere and we got
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drill so obviously I've figured out the process
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but just give you a heads up this is not this not easy at
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all but the results are really cool so I'm just putting a bead of glue on
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the middle here um we don't want to do it on the
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edge just want to do straight in the middle it's going to smush out
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when we uh get to the end and if you do have some
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glue that went to the edge you need to move it back to the middle um you don't want glue
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dripping dripping
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down and then just do a very little bit out of glue over here
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um enough to make it hold so that's why we're doing wood to wood Bond but not
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too much as to uh have a drip and then also this not
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Cedar it's a Pacific naughty Cedar it has knots in it because that's
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what makes it look cool um but the
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uh see what I'm trying to say
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um the knot have holes in them sometimes
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so if you put glue on the knot it's going to squeeze out and you might not want that
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so just a heads up
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um so I'm actually going to see I need
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to I'm going cut away a little bit of that
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fabric make sure we get a good
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Bond
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okay then we'll just go back here a little bit just so we don't forget to do this on the back
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side
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now on the driver's side we had the tongue sticking out of the wood and what
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we did is we took a razor and we sliced it off to make it clean now we don't have to do anything to this side
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because we have a little bit more of a gap on this side and we have uh we've
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got some uh other stuff that we're dealing with um so this piece right here
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is really brittle so what we're going to do is uh we're going to glue this back
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in once we get this whole process done actually I'm G to do it right now so let me get a piece of
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foam so you will be uh you know
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accidentally nicking some of these um just because they're so sensitive but
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it's it's okay because all you're going to do is just put a little bit of glue on
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here be good as
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new just leave that and I promise you it
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will happen you will be cracking like little pieces of it um it's just the
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nature of the material so just a heads up on that
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part okay so watch where you're putting this up so you don't get uh glue
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everywhere
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okay so I'm going to try to show you the process here so
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first need to get our need to start compressing this where
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the bend is
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that's our first spot second we're going to move to the
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middle and we're making sure we don't pinch the
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uh uh the this edge of the wood as you can see
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here because until this bin comes in it snaps in the channel this is going to bow out so the wood the wood is actually
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not bowed itself it's just it's the ceiling it's the transit van
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it's not the tongue and groove piece of
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wood yeah just take your time and
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so now we're going to start to try to pop it in
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the channel a little bit okay so one in the
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back which is good now we're going to take this and push it
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up okay now we're going to need one of
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these pieces right here and and a rubber mallet CU we're going to tap it
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Forward um as we get closer through the process
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and you got to have so much much Pat patience when you do this this
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is I I can see a lot of people giving up at this step because it's it's pretty
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tough so these little sticks are what I'm talking
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about uh
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see
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so all we're doing is gently moving this tongue into place
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if there's any places where it hasn't gone in yet you're going to need
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to figure out how to get it in
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there so this one needs a lot of pressure there we
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go
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I thought the other one was hard this one is the harder one it's going to go in it's moving
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so there's just a flex in the ceiling right here where it doesn't want to pop in the front's good the back's good but
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this middle
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part for some reason is
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that there we go got it okay so this is the fun part it's
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still going to want to come out so you're going to have
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to keep moving this
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all right since this is the final piece right
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here see if I
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can take this
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out
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and try to see if we can put a screw in here and hold it
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give a little more
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pressure okay so this one I need see if we can let that go for a
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second okay
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good all right let's take a break that one was
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tough all right so that one's got us locked into position um this is the piece we have a piece of
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birch a Baltic Birch on the top side and it's the support that mends the
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two quarter inch pieces together so you've got half inch
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and then another half inch so using a
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um 1 in screw is why doesn't grab that final bit but it's holding it in our position so now we're just going to grab
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our inch and a half screw and we're going to go
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finish finish what we started over here so we're going to support it like
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that take a screw
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out now we're going to replace it with a inch and a half
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screw and now this is going to do some wild stuff because it's got to go we got to tap through this
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uh the piece of wood up there okay we got
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it okay so now we can take this off there we
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go all right okay now we can move back
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here
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okay so that's that's holding its position which is very very good and the reason why we're very happy that that's
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working is uh this part up
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here um this is held in with the glue glue only so no
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screws okay so we're going to make sure we get that uh pushed together really
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well um got a little bit of our glue from that part that got repaired right
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there okay let's go ahead and get a screw in here so let's see how much this
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moves okay just a little
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bit so this is the part of the build where if um if you're in a section where this
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is good enough like it looks pretty good uh don't go for perfect on this
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because you'll go too far and then you'll you'll crack this piece of wood or you'll do something like that and
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have to cuz once the glue's in you kind of just kind of know going
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back so this one also is going to get
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a inch and a half screw how we doing am we get any
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comments or chats thanks Linda appreciate
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it yeah and this ceiling's uh this just natural so
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um it does look cooler with age
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uh but I have I did the same thing in my personal van and I didn't finish it and it looks great um but I mean if you want
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this to pop if you just put if you put a little bit of uh oil on it or something like that I mean this thing would look
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incredible okay now we got to be very careful right here because we're going into the sheet
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metal and if we don't put a lot of pressure on the drill we can crack our
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wood
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okay all right so now we can move on back and everything looks super
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clean so I think and we'll just use this for a
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little bit of insurance and this one was
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okay [Music]
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[Music] okay so this one also needs to be inch and a
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half and you'll notice the inside is okay for an inch as you go to the outside the curve is making the distance
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further away so that's
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why we're running into this stuff there you
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go two more and we can get back to scribing
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with our foam which is very exciting because that means once
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these uh the two pieces of foam are cut I can start bringing in the fridge and the
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microwave I can start dying all that in it's going to be really exciting cuz the van comes to life really quick um once
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you pass these stages and
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uh when you can actually see the van coming together you get gets really
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exciting so notice if you guys see these These are uh Riv nut that I put in the ceiling
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so just in case in the future John and Susan want to uh hang something or we want to put something up here uh these
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are actually threaded mounting bolts that we can
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access again be very careful because right up here you can split the
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wood you don't keep pressure on [Applause] it
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[Applause]
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looking good all right perfect perfect
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perfect well let me get out of the way of the camera so you guys can see our final process here and so now
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what I do is I go through and uh this section right here um I'll put an
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extra uh support I'll probably do one
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here and then we'll move this uh now we'll keep that
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one see that one's in pretty good so we'll move it to the
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back yeah so any of these dips there we
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go and so that's just going to keep our glue uh so our glue is really going to
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be bonding this the screws are just a bonus
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um for this but we need the screws because we have we have uh three layers on the on
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this so we've got the quarter inch we've got the quinch cedar quarter inch uh
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underlayment and then where we don't have ribs the transit ribs so we have a
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Transit rib here a Transit rib here and this is a transition section this section has a third layer which is a
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half inch uh piece of Baltic Birch so the sandwich here is an inch um
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that we need to sandwich together so that's why we're using an inch and a half
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screw and that's just for the Integrity of the ceiling but if you guys can
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imagine this whole entire ceiling is wood glued in I mean it's pretty much um you know bomb proof it's
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uh yeah it's going to be really really good
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um so let's see what else yep let's hop on the computer see
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if you guys have any questions uh if not I will end the stream and get back to
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work here uh let's see see how many people got hanging out
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with us today all
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right get the camera back
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on okay guys so uh yeah thanks for watching the live stream um don't forget
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dedicated day to start Trucking through all those questions you guys have a lot of great questions I just haven't got to
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them yet um working on this build uh trying to get it knocked out but looking
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forward to uh the next live stream with you guys uh it's been too long and uh it's really fun doing this helping you
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out with uh showing you how the van is built but I will see you guys uh well
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thanks so much for watching and I'll see you guys in the next live [Music]
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stream