 Um, yesterday I stopped by, I got some metal, this is a piece of the metal, a little bit thicker than I probably needed but, you know, still learning. So I think it's a 16 gauge, 14 gauge, 14 or 16. I'm going to make a bar of the go-gross here, and a bar across the bottom, that will be the frame, the top and bottom frame, and then I'll just connect it with two bars like that, and then I'll have to jigsaw out the frame for the bus. So, right now I'm going to weld on this bottom piece, measure, and then do the top piece. When leveling, make sure to use very precision equipment to help you achieve your level, like electrical tape and metal. Got the bottom piece in, if anybody's a welder, I used flux core, and if you know what flux core is, tell me what you think about it, because I can tell you what I think about it. This is a lot different looking than the other way using gas and stuff like that. This is supposed to basically have built-in gas for a cleaner weld. Well, it doesn't exactly come out that way, but it did work, and there are no casualties, which is always a good thing. There should be no casualties. This right here is step two, ladies and gentlemen. Step two is duct-taping the, let's see, the height, I guess, of the window, and then I'm not so concerned about the placement of these yet. I just want to verify that this is the correct distance in order for the window to slide in, and then I'll just weld in both sides here and here, and then after that I will work on the placement, find the midpoint, and then, you know, measure over and all that fun stuff, and then weld in the vertical beams. It's gonna be a little bit tricky, because, well, not this part, a little bit tricky cutting out the sheet metal, so what I'll do is I'll do flat, well, straight cuts, and then in the corners I will, I'll figure that out in a little bit. Alright, through the magic of filmmaking, the welding is done, and I'm so proud of myself. I learned how to weld on this build. Thanks Mike, thanks Badge, thanks JT and Chris, and, you know, Jamie, I think anybody else teach me how to weld? Thanks Reid for the welder. We got it done, man. It's not the prettiest looking thing, but it doesn't matter, because it's done, and it's welded structural. All this will be hidden, but I like this, and what I did was I put it in the midpoint of the metal, not the midpoint of what we put in over here, me and Mike, so yeah, right in the middle of the outside sheet metal lives this RV window. Now, made my corners, so that stays, this whole part, middle part, goes on all four corners, so without further ado, I'm gonna cut this window. Since I don't have a longer jigsaw blade, I'm, what I'm just gonna do is gonna connect the low point to here to there. I'm gonna go on the outside of the bus, and just run the jigsaw from the outside up, connecting these eight dots, so we got four cuts, and then I'll play with the curve after. Be a little tricky. The inside edge doesn't really match the middle edge, doesn't really match the outside edge, so what I did was I just kind of eyed it. Well, first I traced it off of the flip side of that, and then I just kind of eyed it and played with it, and it's good, so here let me show you what I got. This looks like, this looks like a perfect, perfectly symmetrical thing. I'll probably have to grind some of it down to be expected. That's a pretty, that's a pretty sexy little curve there. The truth for Jacks. All right, we're just gonna, uh-oh, we're gonna have to trim it a little bit, but yeah, that's what we're gonna look like here. It's done! That's a good-looking window. Yep, that is what we're looking like, partially installed. That is a perfect fit, not to toot my own horn, but I'm gonna toot my own horn. I'm gonna toot, I'm gonna toot that thing. Oh, you want to slide the window open? I'll just spot you out here. Yes! I'm into that. I am into that. That goes all the way over too, huh? Cool. Very, very cool. Very cool. I'm very excited. RV window, everybody. RV window. What do we got here, guys? I got a little, uh, departure gift for Reed. So Reed, why don't you open this up? He's taking off on his maiden voyage tomorrow. Just want to make sure that he is a very safe man. Oh, dude. You didn't have to. Yep. Enjoy, buddy. Let's put those things on. Bring it in. Thank you. You're welcome. Oh, man. Welcome to the bus life. I was not expecting this. Thank you. Drive safely. That is awesome. Thank you. You're welcome. Got some new lights, man. Gonna be driving in style. Awesome. Yeah. Did you show my, uh, my tag? Oh, yeah. There we go. So if you want to see what Reed is up to, he's on Instagram, probably Facebook too, shitsingle, skooly. And what does that mean? Shitsingle? Yeah. You got it. What does it mean? It means Guardian Angel in German. There you go. Reed, what are you doing? Putting my new lights in. What are you doing? Longer screws. Light is too big for the frame. Just by about. Yeah. That's, that's weird. All right. Here we go. We're testing out the lights. This is our hand signals for, uh, we had to figure out how to, uh, properly do these things. So we're able to, uh, yeah, Reed was able to do it by, uh, I don't know. He just kind of went around one of the, I'll show you on the other one of what he did. He's trying to explain how you went around the ground or, uh, whatever it was, but I'll show him on that one. I actually figured out an accident. All right. So unfortunately we didn't get the lights in. We couldn't figure it out. Reed is a little disappointed, but it's all right. From this point, after the trip, he's going to have some awesome lights. By the way, Black Pearl Travato Nick showed up. What's up? Uh, he's got his, uh, trusty steed, his, uh, Black Pearl pirate mobile over there. Yeah. And, uh, he's heading east. I thought you're going to Jamie's van build, but yeah, we're heading east to, uh, overland expo east. Cool. We'll go out with that and then from, from there, maybe point south. I don't know. All right. Well, maybe next year, Jamie. Are you going to be at the RTR? Oh, yes. All right. Cool. We'll see you in January. Yeah. Uh, and this is the state of the install, the window install. We're strapping it to the other side. I'll work on it tomorrow. It was a little bit hard to, uh, yeah, with the silicone to push and to screw in the little trim. The trim, I don't even think is structural. So I just want to get a nice good adhesion, uh, uh, adhesion with the panel. So it doesn't rattle out because I don't want it to rattle out for obvious reasons. Actually, maybe I should put a little silicone in here too or something just to bond it to this. Anyways, I think that's about it for today. We'll probably hang out with Nick a little bit tomorrow and work on the bus a little bit. Well, hello everybody. It's the next day. Uh, seems like the silicone was a good choice. It adhered nice. Um, and I can trim off a couple, you know, extra little pieces right there. And then what I might do is I might use a seam sealer again, just go around it. Not quite sure, but I'm really liking the look of this thing. Now, if I did this over, uh, I would, I would still have the window be at the same height as the top of the windows, but I try and get one that was a little deeper this way and have it go maybe to here. Because right behind here is like the bench seat comes up to about here. So I'd like this to come down just a little bit more, but all things considered, I like the way that it turned out. Let's not get it twisted here. Now, I've got some exciting stuff. Well, maybe not so exciting. I'm just going to put this little frame on the inside, try and hide some of that. Um, for now. So drill the holes, get this thing all ready. So basically, just go right into that middle part, which is kind of weird, but whatever. Guess that's how it works. Um, yeah. So just going to put the trim on. Might take it back off later. Who knows, but I'll put it on for right now. So I'll have a number four, hold the mayo. Here we go. Number one. Nick is helping touch up some of the, uh, painting spots. This is the following day. Let's try and figure out what we can tackle here. Um, I'm thinking, I'm going to call the guys at the coach works and see if I can get in and paint. Cause what I think I might do is just work on the outside. This thing, it's been overnight thing is, uh, holding up pretty well here. Wow. It's crazy. There's so much heat coming through this right now and there's nothing coming through this tons of heat, nothing. So partly because it's gray, partly because there's no spray foam insulation. Here's what we're working on today. We are going to frame out the RV window. It's a little tricky cause we, the way we, uh, recycled parts me and Mike, we got, uh, oh, so close. We're trying to get this thing in a little bit more. Yeah. Well, not, not more of an angle, but longer. So just take it a little bit to like there. To like here? Yeah. Okay. So yeah, we're trying to fit that piece of wood in and because of the angle and because they put this in first, uh, which you probably should frame it out with metal and install first, but because we have this little lip here, it's giving us a little trouble, but I'm going to screw into this lip and then probably screw in from that side to secure it. So it's a, so it doesn't move around. While you weren't looking, you got the two by four installed and we got another nailer installed there over here and over there. It just seemed like the most logical thing to do. Um, we're trying to figure out something. So there's two more and then we'll probably have to go down with some kind of nailer situation and down here. Um, because that wasn't really thought out over here. I might have to dig some of this out and put some wood in there. I'm not really sure.