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hey guys welcome back to the live stream today we're going to be going over the southeast Adventure vehicle Expo video
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that is getting ready to drop here in just a minute um I want to go through the video and uh
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show you some high points of it and then we're going to make the link live you can go ahead and watch the video
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so this event uh if you guys are not familiar let me hop on the their website really quick
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if you type in save s-a-v-e Expo it'll come up in Google
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southeast Adventure vehicle Expo
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and let's see here I need to turn some more stuff on there you go here
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there we go yeah so I found out about this event at
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the Florida van life Gathering and I thought it was going to be pretty cool because
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um they have Vans but they also have a lot of other products for the over Landing crowd and those products tend to
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kind of fall back into van life um it's essentially stuff that we'd use for
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you know use for camping storage um you know making a fire uh cooking food
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that type of stuff like utensils and stuff like that but it's more uh the cooler uh more tactical type of
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stuff so I know some people are into that and they want kind of more of that type of
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style with products in their van so I went to this event um
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and it is in Stark Florida
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um so Stark is let's see where that is close to
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it's been a while since I went down there yeah right outside of Jacksonville
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it's got Southwest Jacksonville and uh it's pretty easy to get there so I'm coming from North Carolina so I
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essentially just came you know straight down to 77. down 95.
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and then Stark uh the weather was incredible it was a really really good event
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but yeah check out their website uh it's the the save expo.com
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and if you're into over Landing you can bring your vehicle uh to go off-roading they have some
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obstacle courses so they have an off-road Trail that you can go on and then they have an
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obstacle course uh the RV Paddock there was a lot of you
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know Storyteller Vans and uh those groups were there
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and the camping area it was mostly the over Landing crowd and vans so I've
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parked over there and they've got plenty of room uh the event is definitely growing uh
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every year I think they started off with just a hundred campers and then now they're up
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to 500. so and then they started with I think 20 vendors and now they're up to
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85 vendors so the events it's growing pretty good I really like
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the inventors that I saw at this event so these are all the cards I got from
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the event so in that video that's getting ready to drop we have one two
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three four five six seven eight eight vendors that were interviewed
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and we're gonna go through a couple of them so you guys can get a little highlight of what the uh the video looks like
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um if you want to look at the exhibitors that were here uh exhibition trailers actually I'm not gonna read all these
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but you guys can kind of see the logos here Dometic was there uh
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let's see what else
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van life Outfitters was there backwood Adventure mods
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live more camper vans we did the interview with them
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yeah really cool event uh had a lot of really good raffle prizes
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and uh yeah it was great it was great so let's hop on over here and check out
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some parts of the video
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so one of the first vendors that I interviewed was Mo so he's from backwood Adventure mods and they make one of the
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more popular bumpers for the Ford Transit and this is the one that actually uh was
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put on Thomas's van and they just came out with a brand new
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front bumper and it Contours more to the Ford bumper
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so when you cut it out it's a it's a smoother transition they also move the d-rings further out
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of the way the sensor on the d-ring was a little too or the front
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distance sensor was a little too close to the d-ring so they moved it so they wouldn't have any type of
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they wouldn't have any type of uh you know sensor issue and there's a little bit more protection in the bottom of the
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uh bumper because on a Ford Transit you have that intercooler down there and
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even from the factory there's very little protection of the from the intercooler or for the intercooler and
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what that does is that's going to give you a better protection as much as possible
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so we talked to Mo about that and then we moved on over to
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Dometic
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and if I really liked what Dometic had here if you're just getting started into van life and you're not comfortable with
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putting in you know a full water system into your van something that's uh can be really nice
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is to be able to have a water pump that's portable and so essentially what
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he has here is he has a Jerry can that has a couple of fittings one is just a
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normal drain and then there's a magnetic pump right here on the right maybe I
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skipped over it let's get over it maybe I did there we go
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yeah so he has this magnetic pump and it's got lithium batteries in it
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you just tap it on the top and it'll actually pump from the Jerry cam the
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plastic one and then not only that so check that out you can use that for your van you don't have to put in an expensive water system
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just to get you going um so it'd be great for like weekend
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camping trips just that way you have running water it's really nice to use you know running water to cook clean
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doesn't have to be hot water I thought it was really nice
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uh then he moves into talking about some other coolers and stuff that he has
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or this actually storage um chest coolers and then he ends with talking
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about the cfx products so that is their refrigerator
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then we hop into getting some nachos
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foreign and uh move into our first uh van
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interview so we're talking to Chad and he's from drawersystems.com
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and he builds custom drawer systems for vans so this is the actual thumbnail of the
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video and what caught my eye is the attention to detail into these drawers that he puts together
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uh full drawer slide that comes out so you can put all your stuff in there let me move
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my face really quick there you go
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but you've seen the drawer slide and probably a lot of YouTube videos but having standard drawers on the left side
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of it that works out really well just to have some stores that you always knows there don't have to really
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organize it and then he actually goes into showing
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uh he's got the back of an Astro van well actually you guys will see this in the video
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so this is the the finished nice build and then over here he's got an Astro van that's been
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chopped and turned into a trailer and so he's just built custom system of
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drawers integrated refrigerator so it's a really cool
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interview there then we move on to
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some outdoor settings what's nice about this is when
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I go with my friends and I camp with my van essentially you're gonna sleep in the
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van transport all your stuff in it but then your outdoor cooking area seems to be
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the best way to do it um I like to do outdoor cooking when I bring my van it's
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not necessarily the smells inside the van but you know you kind of are confined but if you're at a campground and having a nice area in the back your
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van you can do that and uh you know spread
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out have lots of room all right Jamie wants to know when the video is being published
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so we're going to publish it right after we go through a couple of these highlights here and it will be live
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then next we talked to uh this is
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we move over to faster flight let me pull his card out
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so our next vendor is this was Lewis from faster flight and
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on Thomas's van we needed to inflate and deflate all four tires at the same time so what we did is I went and I think I
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the system I purchased was more Fleet um but then I found Lewis who was faster
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flight and he builds the same system but it's a little more robust so it has a little bit more uh
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less ability to Kink and he has a little bit different Concept in the way that he attaches the
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pneumatic fittings but essentially it's a system to air up all your four tires and then air them all down and this is
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not just for the overlanding community this is for Van life in general you know
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if you're going to go off-road you want to lower your tire pressure enable to uh in order to be able to get more traction
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you know maybe Sandy environments stuff like that and you're going to need a system like
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this because it just takes a lot of time if you're airing up and airing down
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every single Tire on your van uh so yeah faster flight
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and what's nice about going to these events is you you find these vendors that sometimes are hard to find I did
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not find him on the internet at all and I searched for a couple products so depending on how they're marketing
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the product is kind of how it gets to you but going to these events you're going to find
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different companies that they may be more smaller company
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but make a great product
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all right so we talked the drawer systems faster flight
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all right let's see who's next
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oh this is great so this is Hope and she's from alt route Mills
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and I thought this was just a perfect vendor to have at one of these events uh
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she produces dehydrated meals so you can see them all on the left hand side and
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you couldn't pass the smell of this booth it smelled so good the the food was excellent uh all kinds of
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dehydrated meals you can use these for obviously over landing at this event but
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then just hiking and camping sometimes when you're in Van you don't want to get out and always set up your cook area or
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cook inside your van say you're taking your van to a top of a trailhead
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and you're gonna hike up for the day um there's not a lot of options in
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dehydrated Mills I go hiking all the time and you know you have your you have your Mountain House
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um and others but there's like two or three and they're kind of bland they're not that nice to eat uh you wanted
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something different a little change of pace these Mills are incredible
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um they've got a ton of flavor so she made a couple of samples for me I tried them and they were awesome so I'm
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definitely looking forward to ordering some of these uh I think they actually came up to Asheville North Carolina and
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are selling these at the REI and so yeah I want to go up there and
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check them out so we do a full interview with her talking about her story and kind of how she got started
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uh she was a through hiker and that is kind of the beginning to her story but
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I'll wait to you guys click on the link and check out her story in the full video
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so the next tour we do is we are back with livemore Camper vans
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so we met uh these guys at the Florida van life Gathering and they had a couple
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Vans um and this is Marianne she's gonna give me the tour today
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uh so she was with a potential customer right there and we were just going to do a walk around I didn't do a walk around
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at the Florida van life Gathering so we're gonna hop up on this roof uh this van is their latest build they've got a
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full rooftop deck the medic RTX 2000 AC unit and solar up top
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and then in just a minute we're going to go inside and check out their build there was one van that we did
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let's see here
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yeah so you guys got to check out this van um this van again their Vans feel very
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very homey it's very stylish at the same time uh nice clean you know bright build but
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you have the warm tones of the nice slotted ceiling and this is an extended Sprinter so this
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is a 170 so you got from room for a full bed and then you get a little dinette area
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and they actually have a shower that they built into this van
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it's a huge shower you can also use it for storage as well
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so check out that interview then we also do a quick peek at the back of the van
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just showing how they have their water system organized and then how much room they have in the
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back for for storage
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then we hopped over to a really popular Booth so this is the dimmer box
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and the dimmer box is essentially Bluetooth speaker case but it has
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waterproof storage so you can open it up you know put your phone in there and you
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can actually charge your phone inside the case while it's being you know protected from the elements
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so that is a really cool uh this was very popular he was selling
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a ton of these at the show um all kinds of different colors they can do personal personalization they do
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hydro dipping for all kinds of stuff like that and laser engraving so that's pretty cool
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next up we have a local company and this is Meg from
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Asheville Vehicle Outfitters so pretty close to to where
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I'm at and I wanted to show you this truck uh
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it's not van related but there's a lot of components in here that you can pick up and put in your van you got the Molle
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panels you have the Tilt and slide out you know cooking area surface you can put that at your slide out door at the
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rear of the van um there's a propane uh furnace inside
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so like a little uh little stove uh they have the you know cfx Dometic
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air conditioning air conditioning good Lord uh cooler
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and uh you know water storage so it's similar but the products are pretty good
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see where did I there it is right there so check it out
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um let me move from my face over here so this uh Newport by
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uh Dickinson this is a propane stove or heater
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and it heats up this whole entire cab some van lifers actually use this in
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their van um some people don't like it because it looks a little intimidating to put a
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gas-fired heater intervan but they are really cool they look like a mini
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fireplace that's pretty neat
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all right and then the next group we went to was Moxie vanco so the van on the left we did an interview uh tour
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with that van at the Florida van life Gathering so we skipped that and we moved over to
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their uh next build which is uh grid
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gridtrucks.us so that's more of the Expedition style
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than um and we walk through it and it's pretty
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cool so I'm gonna zoom in here
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so it's got a lot of the features from the systems that they use so like
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the Wilderness band kits but they have these routered you know inlaid laminate with the mountains looks
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really cool
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got the slotted ceiling and so a lot of the same type of accessories that you'd have in a van build are in here
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that's a really cool build out
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these tires on here are humongous it's a 335 80 R20 with bead locks
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some other things are getting kind of popular are the winter campers and RV uh we
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didn't take a tour with anyone they do vans as well so there's some Vans over there on the left there was a
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storyteller um I just walked in this Ember trailer
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and these are kind of the semi-off-road trailers they actually have some type of a suspension package on them
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but pretty nice for a trailer
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nice kitchen uh it has a skylight and then at the back here you can see they have a little
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bit of off-road suspension so you could take it in some interesting places
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some pop top Vans and then down the very left is the van
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life Outfitters they had two vans
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yeah and that's pretty much uh it with all those vendors so we're gonna go ahead and let's see here
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I'm gonna go through and I'm gonna go ahead and make that video live so you guys can see it I'm gonna post the link
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to the video right in here so you guys can be the first ones to watch it
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uh we're also doing Q and A's so if you guys have any questions on the live stream while we're on here put those in
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the uh the comments below and we'll we'll get a conversation going
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foreign
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yeah Southeast Adventure vehicle Expo all right guys it's live you guys can
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check it out
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all right I was waiting for some questions to come in wanted to uh show you guys
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our new DIY van build cheat sheet so if you guys have been looking for a
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list to start from so you're a diyer and there's there's so many parts out there
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uh it can kind of be overwhelming once you start to look for parts for your
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build you find more parts and then it can get confusing which ones to pick so
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what if you can have a guide or a list of curated items that I have personally
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bought over the last three years that you could choose from in an organized way to help you with
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your purchases so that's what I've created it's called the van build cheat sheet
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and if you go to the website vanbuilderhq.com actually I'm going to put the link in
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here foreign
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so there's a link you guys can click on so when you click on this link what you're going to do is put your name and
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email address and it's going to deliver it right to your inbox so what does this sheet look like and how can you use it
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so when you go to your inbox after you've signed up it's going to look just like this I'll move my head out of the way
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but this list is going to have over 250 curated items that I have personally
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bought through Amazon over the past three years now why is that important well three
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years ago I was buying more DIY friendly parts and then as I grew into
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professional van building there were different parts that I bought all the parts are great but these are in
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the list so that you guys can see them all they're also organized so for example
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the first category is going to be cargo storage
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next we move into electrical so this is anything from solar panels fuses fuse
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block marine grade electrical items for example like this marine grade
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uh duplex and Triplex wire
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then we have you know Blue Sea Systems parts that I like to use I love Blue Sea
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Systems then we got into Fasteners so any of the 80 20 stuff that you saw me working on with Thomas's van
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is in here all the psycho head cap screws that I used stuff like that and
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then we get into Hardware uh it's like this revise Shelf these are the soft close hinges that I
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used on my personal van so there's stuff like that
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HVAC these items include the uh
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diesel heater so this is the Chinese diesel heater so this is not like the Webasto or the S Bar this is the one
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that I have in my personal Vim so it is on the entry level part of the list as
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far as van billing goes um you also have the max fan
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everybody's very familiar with that so that's the one I have in my personal van uh then we get into insulation kitchen
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items for example if you want to know what type of induction stove I use
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you can click on the link right here
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Roofing these are hard to find so these are the roof glands that I use to pass through
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solar wires or electrical or even the lighting on top of the roof
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and so we used we used all these on Thomas's van the nice part about this
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list is not only are you helping out the channel but at the same time it's giving you a
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quick link to Amazon so that you can actually see these products so look on the right you can see anytime
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that you hover over here you can actually see the part before you go to Amazon so you're not going back and
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forth moving on down we have our solar so
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anything from like the Z brackets that I use I use these all the time on the roof
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racks so they're very compatible with 80 20. as far as bolting into
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the roof rack and then we have um cables
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most recently is the solar connectors so being able to extend
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the solar cable on the top of a van because when you get solar sometimes
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you're only working with like a fixed um cable length and you might need to
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customize that so one thing you can do is come over here to the list click on the
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um Bogue RV solar these branch connect uh
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not the branch connectors are one piece to combine and then you have the solar connectors with the spanner
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and that is going to allow you to cut splice and then make the new connection
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last but not least and most importantly is the tools section
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if there's anything on this list that I think is going to help you guys out it's the tool list so
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the tool list on here is the rivet gun that I use it's the
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crimper for the pro PEX to be able to crimp it um it is hole saws uh it is
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um crimping tools there's all kinds of things on here that
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if I had this list when I first started it would have made things much easier so
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instead of having to wait one or two years of research you can just download this list
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and it's going to show you everything that I have in my toolbox that I got from Amazon
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and specifically the Amazon list because it's just the easiest way uh
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to to find a product and get it to your house um there's other tools that I use and as
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time goes on this is a living document so as time goes on I'm going to be
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adding to this list so you're always going to have the most updated list I
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have right now probably 10 more items that I want to add to this list um that I really think will help you
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guys out yeah and then final finally does a water system so you can actually see the sea
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flow uh water pump that I use
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foreign Builder HQ
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and you can click on the get my free cheat sheet uh the link is also in the description of this live stream right
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now so it's the last link that I pasted so click on that sign up it's going to come directly to your inbox
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and I think you guys will really enjoy it again it's a living document so it's going to grow over time
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more products I use that I get comfortable with and think would be a great recommendation for you guys I'm
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going to put it on the list and uh yeah check it out
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all right guys that is uh gonna do it for the live stream today
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um I'm up here about one more minute closing some windows so if you guys have any questions put those in the comments
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and I'll ask them uh answer them real quick before I hop off
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foreign looks like that's it for questions today
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we'll also be live streaming next week so join us for that one watch for when it comes out uh we're gonna be doing a
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couple of things we've got the we've got the uh agile
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off-road 16 gallon uh undermount tank
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um I guess I could actually show you what that looks like
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in case you guys are interested in that for next week so agile off road
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all right not affiliated but giving you guys some excellent information here uh
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agile off-road uh so so what I've been doing is oh yeah
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Peter I'm ready for your question
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yep put that question in there I'm gonna get to it uh so what I've done is over time I've
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been combing the internet I always look for new parts and I look for companies that I like but don't necessarily have
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Transit Parts yet and I kind of keep my eye out and just last month I found out that agile off-road
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uh if you go to their Transit shop and you come down to
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uh let's see exterior yeah Transit shop exterior
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this is the only undermount tank made for a Transit that I know of right
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now and it's their 16 gallon Ford Transit underwater underwater good Lord
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undercarriage water tank now why is this special well one
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it's hard to find a custom fitted tank that is low profile for an all-wheel
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drive van I say all-wheel drive because the whole point of an all-wheel drive Vantage you want to take it off-road potentially
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but if you have a tank water tank that's hanging down and like almost scraping the ground there's no reason to even have the
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all-wheel drive so finding a tank that is low profile comes up underneath the van and actually
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has the straps to bolt it in there is a game changer um so the good value it's 16 gallons uh
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that's excellent capacity so we're going to be installing this next week so
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look forward to that all right let's hop it over to Peter's question
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same thing about using some air gel insulation in part of my van have you ever heard of people using that as a
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seven or about air okay Arrow gel last year
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Arrow gel
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I know of this product
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I guess it's similar to 3M thinsulate I'm pretty sure
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is it yeah Aero jail that's what they use yeah it's a Fireproof
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material
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so I guess my question is are you using it because
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it's you're able to buy a bunch of it um
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maybe a good deal or something like that so you're you that's the reason we use it versus like a 3M or a uh
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havelockable I guess that would be my question
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see I think I think I saw a YouTube video
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yeah let's see
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yeah that that is definitely a higher r value than 3M for sure
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uh I guess my opinion was I have not used it before um I've watched a couple of videos on it
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uh but it was more related to uh
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it being you know it's fireproof properties I don't think I was watching a video on
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the insulation insulative value of it I'm gonna have to do more research on
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that but um my quick opinion would be if you're able
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to purchase that and use it um it may be maybe a good option I would
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have to research that more
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I will say just from going from my personal van and the
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the lack of insulation I put into it to
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the installation we did in Thomas's van um he has an all glass van so that uh
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does make it really challenging to insulate that van well however we did a really good job insulating his uh
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ceiling and then any cavity in the van we put as much High block as we could put in it
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um so I have I don't have that much insulation in my van
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I have a ton in the roof so the roof to me is like the most important because that's where the sun's going to come in
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um and kind of bake the van or you know it's going to be cold and
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then the floor but
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yeah Peter I have to do some more research on Aero gel as far as like the the rolls of that
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um and if you have a link to maybe what you're purchasing I could research that
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a little bit more
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yeah I guess what I'm looking at right now is just the Amazon stuff
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let's see
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so is the arrow arrow roll the arrow roll
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ah okay so is this uh what you're talking about
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yeah two and a half feet by five feet
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wow yeah 7.3 hmm
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I've heard about this product but I have not related it to Vans for some reason
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I think I was watching some fireproof video and that's how I know the Aero gel
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name yep as far as it's uh r value
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you know fire resistance sound isolating water resistance moisture resistance I mean this looks like a
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really good product for for bands
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and it's only what like a quarter of an inch thick is that what you're buying is a the
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quarter inch version I know this is less than a quarter inch 0.2
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hmm
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yeah it sounds like a good product um and for anybody else listening uh I
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wouldn't worry too much about um this is just in my experience uh not
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living in my van but spending weekends at a time in the van uh as long as you have adequate
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ventilation for the hot months
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good heating for the winter time uh just my personal opinion the
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insulation is not always a make or break um but if you can find something that's
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really good like this product for example that r value is impressive
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um right here let me zoom in yeah so that r value is impressive uh
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you know just trying new things this looks like a pretty cool product
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but even with the best insulation in a van uh the number one thing is moisture
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control and that is making sure you know you can kind of think of you as
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being a human in a in a tin can you know breathing in and out so there's there's you're creating this uh moisture
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environment and being able to evacuate that moisture and keep
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everything nice and dry um you want to make sure that system's in
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place um you can have a ton of installation but if you don't have that airflow
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that intake and exhaust um
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I don't want to say it doesn't matter how much insulation you have but you would have good airflow and then if
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you can have insulation that's really robust then that's even better
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yeah Peter uh yeah stay in touch on the chat in the future and let me know if you do decide to buy it
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um and then you know maybe have the insulin installation process was I'd be be curious to see um see what it was
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like it doesn't seem that um expensive so five
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so if we look at Havelock
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I don't know how to spell that 150
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let's see this was that's residential I'm trying to think
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what we got for Thomas's so 100 square feet
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that's 16 by 48 2.
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1648 2. 2
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it's 16 2.
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that's 48 .
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so that's four feet so it's pretty close to the same roll
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you're getting 20. for 150.
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well so just a rough math don't quote me on this but so
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it's 750 per bet versus 39 a bat so that would be
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it is more expensive but maybe you can use less of it
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because the R value is so high and I imagine you would just use like
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uh 3M 90 I mean not 90. uh super 77 spray
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adhesive to to install it it is thinner and yeah you probably
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could use less of it yeah Peter let me know
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let me zoom in here
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so this is the newest video that's linked below it's the southeast Adventure vehicle Expo
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so go ahead and check that out we got a bunch of vendors that we interviewed for that one
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uh the Florida van life Gathering that's another one with a lot of great interviews with vendors as well showing
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me some really cool products uh and then we've got some other videos here
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foreign excellent uh that was a great show to go
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to I really enjoyed that show um really really nice bands in Oregon
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I'm looking forward to going to see here I'm looking forward to going to
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uh give me one second
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yeah looking forward to going to um Adventure van Expo this year
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and I want to do one a little bit different so I want I'm thinking we're uh we want to go to
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this adventure Series in uh
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cable
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Wisconsin let's see if I can get a map so there's cable
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so it's south of Lake Superior
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uh the reason I want to give this show is that uh where was I
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they're doing an adventure series um and they have a bike race so I think there's going to be just a not only a
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lot of people there but there's gonna be a lot of stuff going on as far as uh in the in the area so they're kind of
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merging two events so you got the adventure van Expo and then this uh this bike race
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I don't know about it you're looking live as I'm trying to figure out about this bike race I read
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about it earlier um
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here we go the adventure series
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hmm for the Expos they haven't updated
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these links
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I can't click on that
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huh
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no tickets
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okay I'm not sure what that means
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yeah so one of these adventuring Expos we're going to be we'll be going to one that's not local
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so I don't know if we'll fly out to one of these shows uh yeah if you guys want to want to see
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a specific Expo you guys be a great audience to ask which one you would look forward to uh
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seeing a a video done about checking out the event maybe we'll do like a poll
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you guys vote to where we fly out to that'd be kind of cool
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all right guys any more questions again probably gonna close out here in just a minute or two
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so I'm gonna look for a couple more questions to come through see if we can answer one more question
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today before we sign off
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oh I know what I can do uh I did not show you guys uh
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the the photos I took of the van rims we went through everything but we didn't
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talk about [Music] um
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I have some photos on here that didn't show shares what I guess that's what I'm saying
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yeah so this is what the van uh looks like right now
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so we painted the rims we've got the BFG 255 70 16
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rims on I mean tires on the rims on the factory rims
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The Next Step besides the water tank that's going to be under mount under mounted I was gonna I'm paused on the inside
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because the freight that I have coming in for some interior components
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um it's just been delayed so maybe next week we'll we'll get that in
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but the front bumper you can see here I've got a new front bumper that's going on it's just a Ford factory bumper uh
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it's nothing nothing fancy but when the van was uh
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uh when the semi-trailer brought it on over here this the straps I think they
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uh bumped into something so this right here
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it's just superficial it's just a plastic there's nothing wrong but there's a plastic cap that goes here
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and then there's a bumper and so I'm just gonna put a new one on and then when I do that we're also going
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to replace the front grille here and we're going to put on the uh
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Ford Raptor style Grille so just like Thomas's van
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um and then I've got a vinyl graphics company local that we are going to do a matte black vinyl on the
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hood and then on the rear this rear section
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this panel uh we're gonna do a custom topo map with the
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Odyssey custom bands logo at the bottom of it and that topo map it's going to be like
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the rig well design so if you guys have gone to rig well
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they are actually starting to make components for Ford transits so I'm very
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excited about that uh however the uh
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uh they're expensive um the base cabinet is uh 955 dollars
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but the system is really amazing
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um you can it's like a you can mix and match all this stuff
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and so I'm I'm really on the fence between this
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system and then the Flatline vanco system that I'm uh looking to purchase
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because these little shelves on the edge you can use them for
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um like stashing your cell phone so let me see if I can uh
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Zoom here so they I think they can bolt into the adventure
1:00:07
wagon I need to ask that question but look here on the edge so on the let's see if I can zoom
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yeah right here this is what I like so this this little shelf on the edge because when you're in
1:00:21
bed and you want to lay down your lay your cell phone down somewhere if you want to have like a little Nook to where you can charge it and just have a place
1:00:27
for it I think these little corner areas are these little add-ons are pretty cool
1:00:34
again I'm kind of 50 50 right now um just budget wise on this
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let's see but let me get back to what I was talking about so if we go to shop and we go to Transit exterior
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and we go into rig wrap
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so you can right here you can go on and you can purchase these uh vinyl
1:01:10
prints and they they're specifically designed
1:01:15
for flare space flares with this window cut out but you can opt out for that the
1:01:21
only issue is if you buy this for my situation you're going to get the full graphic but it's going to be about an
1:01:28
inch or two inches shy on the surrounding profile
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so Mike could look a little odd so I was holding off until I could get a local
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uh Graphics Company to actually design this for me and they sent me a quote and
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it's a very reasonable quote so um and that includes installation
1:01:49
installation so uh yeah they're gonna do a rendering up for
1:01:56
me for this back side um but I do like how the the bottom is like this
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so let me know your comments guys if you're watching this and you might be interested in
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uh buying something like this but over here on the right you can you can customize it
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yeah but instead of going with this because it's pretty expensive I think it's like 1250 for the full kit
1:02:22
including the hood so that for graphics pretty expensive I mean you can almost
1:02:27
get a partial wrap for that much uh yeah look forward to to that that's
1:02:34
also coming up all right
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