Lots of small projects today and more thinking about the electrical cabinet.
Sara continued staining and applying polyurethane to all our finished pieces while I started turning my attention again to electrical things. One aspect of the van wiring has been bugging me and so I convinced Sara to help me work on it. Facing an annoying project is always better with a partner!
In one place the wiring has to pass through a pre-existing hole in the van. The hole is a decent size – probably 1 1/2″ – but the edges are abrupt. Not exactly sharp, but I could see the wiring getting worn over the life of the vehicle. Unfortunately, the only way to address it was to pull most of the wiring back out. I had ordered a piece of large, 2″ split conduit from O’Reilly’s so the goal was to get that conduit into the hole and get the wires back through. As I had already zip-tied and taped a bunch of the wire together, we had to undo that as well. It was not as bad as I feared and Sara’s help made it much better.
In the afternoon I went back to thinking about the layout in the electrical cabinet. I cut a piece of cardboard to the size of the cabinet and started arranging the batteries and the inverter and trying to visualize all the other parts and wiring that would complete the system. Because the cabinet is going directly behind the driver’s seat, I also need to think about leaving space for the seat to rotate. I probably spend too much time thinking. At this point I think I just need to start building it out and see how everything fits.
Late in the afternoon we hit the movies. Having no jobs and living with my retired parents means semi-regular Tuesday trips (half-price days) to the movie. We saw The Post, which is excellent, though I wonder if the themes of the movie would resonate as much in a different political climate.
This evening we kept working on small projects. Sara did some more staining while I added some final insulation to the refrigerator base.
Finally, we installed the drawer slide into the microwave cabinet.
