Experiments with Sheet Metal Patching

Are you going to use the rub rails in the rear? It would be useful for lining up cars with, providing a bump stop, etc.

Stephen Greer

One should always use protective gloves when handling sheet metal. I've heard too many horror stories already from sheet metal related accidents. T_T

Juhani Saarinen

it's one of these little helpers you never knew you need until you worked with it :D

Was that motor in the end the Wheego's drive motor? ;-)

Dr. Bjoern Bieber

hey uh you might wanna censor your license plate at about the 3 and a half minute mark, people can run plates privately and i'd hate for people to start leaking your private info dude

MrSonicOSG

"It's already set at 3 Volts" - ehh, no, thats 30. "Ooops, thats 30 Volts, not 3" :D

Have you considered filling the holes with drive rivets?

Tape the excess mic wire to the inside of your shirt. Painters tape should do the trick but maybe use the super strong tape for the buss just to be sure :)

Gustav E

I see someone is having fun with their new toy :) Aren't you scared the old insulation might catch fire/melt when doing the welding on the side of the bus? It's not like this hasn't happened anywhere else on the bus.... ;)

Buzzin

Just thinking out loud: Having magnets on the inside of the outer shell.....it would be cool if you could just walk up to the bus and slap any metalic item on the side and it would stick :P

Buzzin

You might be able to rig something up on a stick that you can reach down from above, maybe have some magnets epoxied to the side to have it stick in place for the sides still attatched

Micah Reid

I thought about that. I should've actually tried it out. That won't work on the panels that are still on the bus as I have no access to the backside, but it might help with these

Aging Wheels

You can get a piece of brass to buck the weld from behind and that will keep the plugs from falling through when you weld them in. Or just back it with a piece of brass and fill it entirely with a weld bead.

Micah Reid

Back at a maker lab I used to be a member of, a common question was "Why are you doing/making that?". A perfectly acceptable reason was "For reasons.". Because something makes you happy is legit the only reason you ever need to do something. :)

Madison Kelly

That is the exact same power supply I bought off Amazon too some months ago. Ironically I've only used it thus far to restore "dead" li-ion battery packs. I have discovered the batteries in a few cheap tool packs, and the battery pack in my dust buster are not balanced at all, they are missing the extra wires that would be required to do it. Have been able to recover these devices by manually charging up the out of balance cells to match the rest.