 Alright, note to self, if you're doing oil based paints, and it's not consistently above 70 degrees, 70 degrees, and if it is a moist day, this stuff is going to take forever to dry. Look at that. It's still tacky and wet kind of, well not wet, but just sticky, so this thing is going to take all day to dry. So because we got some sticky paint here, I'm not sure if we can access part of this today to weld in some supports for the panels up top, so we will let you know shortly. But I'm literally wearing the same thing in every single photo I feel like, because I just keep wearing the same work clothes, so every day you try to carry these people probably think we filmed it all in one day. That imitates life, he never changes his clothes by the way. Okay, so here's the update. This is a couple days later, it rained like crazy up here yet again, so we're going to mount the panels. Are you doing a DIY on this one? Yeah, I'm going to do a DIY. That's right, because he has kind of a proprietary installation thing. Yeah, some of it's going to be like more of a full complete, super, super in-depth, and then I am doing a YouTube video on more of the basics of kind of how to think through mounting your panels. So, we're just going to talk about mounting. I'll just show you the brackets, you're going to have to click and pay this dude if you want all the detailed information, but we're using, I think like I said in the previous day, we're using some like table brackets, or what are those things called? Hinges. Hinges. What are they? Fence hinges. Yeah, hinges. We're just going to, you know, secure them in place. The ones we got with AM Solar, super high quality little L brackets. The school bus is on the side, tilt quite a bit, you know, and so we didn't want to have the panels like at such an extreme angle, so we're trying to raise it up a bit to make it a bit more flat. You don't have to, that's what we're choosing to do, that's why we're going through all this. Also a quick update, we're having a hard time getting things delivered here, and so it's a little frustrating when you order something on Amazon and then it never processes, and then I think one thing got delivered and then sent back because the people at the post office didn't know I was using Campground Host Brad's address, stuff like that, so it had a couple little issues. So I can't stress enough, if anyone wants to do vegetable oil, get a hold of Nate, and I put his information on a previous video, I'll probably put on this one, Nategun22edgmail.com. Huge help. I ordered from a veggie oil company, I think they're going out of business, I didn't know it, they didn't tell me, it's been a freaking nightmare. Thanks if you see this for the discount, but it's been a really like giant pain in my butt, trying to get help, there's no help whatsoever, trying to get the parts, now we're like on the second week waiting for bolts or something, and they never told me, and I don't know, I just got a funny feeling about them, so Nate, get a hold of Nate if you want to do this, because he will walk you through the whole thing, 200 bucks for one year, I just had to give him a plug because he's been helping me so much. Anyways, let's pick up where we left off. So for all the people asking me why Canada, what'd you do there, how is it, is it hard to order parts, whatever if you're curious, yeah, it's a little hard to order parts, but I came up here for badge, I think everybody knows that by now for his generous offer to help us do the vegetable oil, so it was definitely worth it for that, but you know, we're having a good laugh about it earlier, he's like welcome to Canada, and we're just laughing because you can get things delivered to Amazon like same day up here, it's like a week later if you're lucky. We're not going to do, I'm not going to do a complete thing of what we're doing, because what we're doing is a little bit advanced, where essentially bolting in the panels or the brackets into the bus, and the reason we're doing that is because we have the entire bus stripped out, so if you ever need to replace the panel for some reason, we'll just take it off here, but these bolts will stay pretty much forever, and so this isn't like the typical way that you would install these solar panels, look at how beautiful these things are by the way, but if you do a complete gut of your bus, I recommend to do this, so hop on over to Navigation Nowhere's video for that. Now if you're just going to add panels to an existing bus, if you haven't taken out the roof, the best way to do this is to find these rivet marks. In between the rivet marks, there's about a quarter inch to about a half an inch piece of metal, as long as you follow this rivet, but maybe about a half inch, as long as you follow this rivet, you will drill into an additional layer of metal, okay? This part is hollow, don't drill into that, drill into this part and make the front brackets, these ones, sideways, so mount them on the front or the back, I recommend doing the front ones because that's the one that hits the wind, right? So mount the front ones sideways, and then you can do the long ones, long lines, and you can get at least one of the brackets to screw into this, so then you have three out of four per side, and that's pretty good, that's good enough, then of course put your die core over it, take off the adhesive mount, right, so you have a little additional stickiness, but this way is a little bit advanced, so I'll leave the advanced stuff to the advanced guy, which is Mike Navigation Nowhere. What's up, badge? You know what I just totally realized? We didn't do any sort of a time-lapse B-roll, but we got almost all of the panels mounted, we're just working on this one. The included brackets are not these, we actually picked these up, I think I mentioned that, the other ones look like this that come in the kit, I had them on the last one and they work really well, but because the skylight is so massive, it puts these things, it's such a tilt, and also we have this funny lip here from the the handicap door, and such a big space, so we didn't want to tilt them like super crazy, because what happens is at 90 degree angles, it starts to, well it goes straight up from the roof, so 90 degrees, you know, would be sticking out that way, 90 degrees would be sticking up a bit more that way, and so it's kind of hard to get them to fit properly when you mount them on the sides, if you mount them on the front, there's no issue whatsoever, and like I said, if you do mount them on the front, get into where the rivets are and mount them like this sideways, so that's why we're doing these big ones, and why we have bolts, and not using the stuff they gave us, because this bus is 100% custom, so not everything has got to fit, right Mike? 100% custom? Yep. Oh no, I don't know what I'm doing. Alright, you guys ready for the big reveal? This is the Tornado Proof Solar Panel Bracket install. Just a simple little, I forget what these things are called, but it is a type of washer, nylon nut, bolt, and we are drilling out the mounts, I don't have a regular mount on me, but we drilled out the mounts to fit, got mount right there, little tiny mount, just brought it into the bus, and there's no reason to take these things off. This all will be spray foam, so like I said, if you are, if you follow the rivets, like I said up top, the rivets are right in here, and that goes into this beam, this beam goes up and then goes this way, so that is the ideal way to screw it in, if you are not stripping out your bus, if you are adding a panel, if you are making a little upgrade, so yeah, just go sideways in the front, totally secure, had them on my last bus, not one problem. The problem is, if you just use a metal screw and a sheet metal, that's not the best way to do it, and if you have high enough winds, it'll just strip it right out, those are little screws. If you don't believe me, hit up steampunk Steve, or nematic fanatic, they can tell you all about putting screws right into sheet metal, which actually makes me guess if I'm correct with my statement, because I know Steve did lose a panel, and I think he, I think that's what he did.