I haven't had a lot of time to work on it lately, as we were out of town for almost a month at the Airstream Club International Rally in Rock Springs, WY. However, since we got home a few weeks ago, I've put in a few hours.
First, I refurbed the last window. I don't know what I was thinking about one being hard to slide; the two I completed before were fine. The third one went together just fine. All three windows are ready to reinstall, but it'll be a while until I'm ready for that.
A few days ago I started a spreadsheet with a list of things to do. It was over 30 items long when I finished. Ugh. I put the list in a general order of things that need to be done
I spent several hours today working on the B190. I removed the new Maxxair fan and the wood strips that are supposed to support the roof. Unfortunately the construction adhesive I used turned out to not be great on fiberglass, and some of the wood I had previously glued to the fiberglass shell had pulled away, so I have to redo it.
I also pulled the plumbing vent and cut and removed the coax cable for the roof rack antenna. This let me finally remove the last ceiling panel. I've decided I'm going to mount the rearview camera to the roof rack and run the cable in the old hole for the coax...I'll have to expand that hole a bit, but it's way better than adding three new holes to the top.
I also worked on cleaning up the wiring behind the control center. I decided I was never going to use that rooftop antenna, which meant I didn't need the booster, cable/antenna switch, and the line noise reducer (which I think someone added, based on how it was wired in). I'll repurpose the booster switch space for ethernet and coax jacks (for Starlink, a cellular booster, or cable TV). The spot where the cable/antenna switch was will hopefully serve as USB chargers and a 12 volt outlet location. I still have the spot where the phone jack was to put something more useful in!
I worked on removing some of the adhesive from the window holes and the hole for the Maxxair fan.
I also worked on some silly things that aren't really strictly germane to getting it on the road:
- I swapped the incandescent bulbs in the side marker lights for LEDs.
- I used metal polish on part of the roof rack, out of curiosity. If you're wondering, it got a nice, reflective shine to it, but the lower half of the tube still had spots. I meant to take pictures, but I forgot, and the tarp is back on it now.
These latter few things are kind of silly to worry about at this point, but, eh, let me have some fun. I have a long list of things to do yet.