Tales of a bloke with a campervan
A few years ago, I made a video about how to fix the handle on the sliding door of my Toyota Proace van, when it comes apart from the mechanism inside. That video still stands and you can watch it on the link below. However, this time around, the entire door handle mechanism had come apart inside the door so I had to take the whole thing apart from the inside to fix it.
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Join me in the van for a session of DIY as I fix a broken tap and – finally! – get around to sorting out hinged bed legs.
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I’m looking for suggestions and help with reworking the legs for my campervan bed and this video explains the issue.
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Once again the campervan was pressed into service for my filming on Cruising The Cut, resulting in two car park stays, one in North Wales – where I introduced some Very Important Guests to the joys of narrowboating – and one in Milton Keynes. Plus I went to have my new lithium / inverter etc electrical system checked over by the professionals at Bluefix who are qualified and authorised Victron installers.
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Continuing from the cliffhanger of the last video, this one sees me debug the problem which switched off the induction hob and go on to test the new inverter & battery setup with both the hob and an electric kettle.
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An episode in which I complete (almost) the wiring on the new lithium battery / bigger inverter setup in my campervan and begin to test it whereupon disaster apparently strikes!
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Having replaced the sink in the new worktop, I needed to sort out the sink outlet for waste water and the supply pipe from the main tank. This proved irritatingly troublesome, as you will see!
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Another classic case of frustration and banging my head against the wall as I try to fix the new campervan worktop in place whilst also making it removable in case I need to do so in future.
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While the new diesel heater ran for two hours as per the installation instructions, I didn’t want to leave it unattended so I turned my attention to cutting the new worktop including holes for the sink and tap (faucet).
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In what is arguably my dullest video yet – and that really is saying something – I present a few minutes of me touching my hand to an exhaust pipe and saying “yes, it’s hot” as I do the first test run of the newly-installed Planar / Autoterm diesel heater in the campervan, as well as CO checks and making sure the van isn’t about to be set alight.
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