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#11 heinphoto

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Posted 23 January 2021 - 05:31 PM

Here is a photo showing the three locations where we ended up drilling to mount the drop tent.  You can see that one had to placed inside the cabinet above the 85L refrigerator, another high enough to clear the counter, and the third just back from the bed rail.  It's a bit of a puzzle.  The location of everything is different depending on the model and floorplan.  Ours is a side-dinette Grandby.

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#12 Keeferton

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Posted 28 June 2022 - 09:02 PM

I have a 23 zero shower tent just sitting in my garage and I figured I might as well throw it on the side of my hawk front dinette. Plenty of room above the stove/sink area on the driver side for hardware to clear. A couple questions before I go drilling holes into my brand new camper. 

1. Is there anything in the walls above the sink area I need to watch out for? 

2. I'm assuming best to drill from the outside of the camper in? 

3. Anything besides hardware and butyl tape needed? 

 

It seems pretty straightforward based on the construction but there is something unnerving about drilling holes into the side of a perfectly good camper. 


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#13 Vic Harder

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Posted 28 June 2022 - 09:57 PM

Drill high enough to get into the c-channel. There are wires in there. Best bet is to pull the paneling back a bit and take a look before drilling
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#14 BlueSky

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Posted 29 June 2022 - 02:28 PM

Maybe it is just me but I avoid drilling the sides of the camper, especially when there is an easy alternative. For an outdoor shower stall I open the rear door 90 degrees. I clip one end of a tarp to one jack bracket, clip the middle of the tarp to the top corner of the door, and clip the other end of the tarp to the other jack bracket, creating a triangle shaped space. I have a couple of strings attached to the bottom grommets of the tarp to hold it outward if needed. Everything, including a silicon rubber pad to stand on, fits inside the propane hatch. Yeah, tarps look third-world, but the thing is only up for like ten minutes then it disappears. I hang a Stearns 5 gal solar shower bag on the top/back of the camper (installed a hook). For cold weather I have an indoor shower setup as others have done.

 

In my experience, everything bolted on the exterior gets destroyed by wind, UV, air pollution, and tree branches.


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#15 bsharp007

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Posted 30 June 2022 - 12:43 AM

Just mount it to the side of your camper super easy and if you buy the declination zero shower tent it comes with all the hardware you need.  I've mounted it on two different FWC now and it was very easy, of course I measured probably 10 different times, inside and outside.  Here's what it looks like with a roll over hawk.  Had to move it slightly towards the front because I got the larger fridge so no cabinet on top of the fridge for one of the bolts, still plenty of room for the king size bed to deploy.


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