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#1 Bisleybud

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Posted 25 September 2011 - 11:14 PM

Just picked up my new Grandby shell in Reno. I plan to post pictures as I do the interior build.

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Posted 25 September 2011 - 11:20 PM

Here we are mounted on my 2003 Duramax.

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Posted 25 September 2011 - 11:29 PM

Looks good and congrats on your new camper. It will be fun to see what you do with the interior. Thanks for keeping us posted.
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Posted 26 September 2011 - 12:16 AM

The first thing you have to do in Tucson this time of the year is put in the A/C!!!This meant I had to cut a 16x12 hole in my New Grandby.

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Posted 26 September 2011 - 01:31 AM

Looks good and congrats on your new camper. It will be fun to see what you do with the interior. Thanks for keeping us posted.


Yeah, what he said! :D
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Posted 26 September 2011 - 01:35 AM

This meant I had to cut a 16x12 hole in my New Grandby.


Can you detail what you did to prepare to cut, and what you had to cut through?

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Posted 26 September 2011 - 01:52 AM

Hadley, as a fellow rag bagger you know the first thing I had to do was have a big rum drink.Then I took the trimming router in hand and cut the aluminum siding out.not so bad the factory had cut out the interior paneling around the framing so I could see the siding from the back side.A edge trimmer bit cut though the aluminum like butter..
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Posted 26 September 2011 - 01:59 AM

Hadley, as a fellow rag bagger you know the first thing I had to do was have a big rum drink.Then I took the trimming router in hand and cut the aluminum siding out.not so bad the factory had cut out the interior paneling around the framing so I could see the siding from the back side.A edge trimmer bit cut though the aluminum like butter..


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So the interior wall and insulation was already cut out from the factory? Looks like the normal factory cutout for a rear window, so no framing needed to be cut?
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Posted 26 September 2011 - 02:09 AM

The A/C framing is different then for the window.I had them frame for A/C.No extra charge since I gave up the window..
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Posted 27 September 2011 - 02:11 PM

Started my passenger side build. Skinned lower box with birch, trimmed A/C, installed aluminum L channel forward and began mockup with forward cabinet.

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