dieter demeyere

Realy nice work!!!thanks for sharing your techniques!

That could indeed help, depending on the available sizes.

Hi,I do have some left hand drill bits (screw removing set) alltough it was to big to fit in the shaft of the plastic housing.If you have a set of left hand drill bits in the right size it could work indeed

Well...good point. Could work, but it went very well without, probably would have come up with if I had troubles taking the screws out. Danger could be that the superglue gets outside the screw and runs down the thread...making it harder to screw out.

Hi,You're welcome. I hope it can help people out.

That could work for screws which have some slot into it, but for those without it would be hard, its just a rounded head.And your toes driver is mostly made out of harder metal than the screws...so i should not worry too much.For those other security screws with special slots (triangles, squares, trihex....) you can find those bit drivers easily in some kits... Which are cheap also. I have about 3 of those. But none were suitable for these kind of screws.

:) Nice !! IGlad to see it inspired you!

Hi Dr.Bill,The bed is an air mattress.My first idea was to put the folded on the left side above the wheelcase. Some kind of flip down system. But the height between wheelcase and ceiling was to short, meaning if I would fold out it would not reach the other wheelcase on the right side. And if I putted a fixed bed it would have taken all the space of where the cabinets are.So for my intended use there were much more disadvantages to put a 'fixed' bed in there.The air mattress fits perfectly between the sides with some space left on top and bottom.And I have a battery powered air pump which takes me about 1-2min.Everything depends on the requirements you need, but for me this was the perfect solution.

Always been a fan of Dr Gadget, and a stiltwalker myself... this is INSANE. I really would like to make stillts that way ;)Great work!

Hey russ_hensel, Thx for posting. If it worked drop a ' i made it ' with a pic ?

Hey ronanry, I think I can try that one out also.Thank you for the input

W O W ( I would use bigger capitals if I could )This is a really insane costume, very very nice!One question; how do you make your face dissapear in your costume? Do you use black liner inside and do you wear an extra mask or something else...Really good work!

Thank you.How's your van going?

Hi NotAPot2PN,Thank you! Well I have to admit that when I started I had something in mind...but not that well finished. I just kept going ;).Glad I recieved a lot of materials and use of machines for free. Otherwise I would not have been able to do things like that.Sharing it with you guys was all my pleasure ;), as was building the van also. GrtzDieter

Thx. Offcourse you build towards your needs. So if the weather over there is nice. I would also leave the back open.;)

Hi eastcoaster.Well my reason to keep te 2 compartments separate is due to that in winter, when driving my car daily I don't have to heat up the whole van ☺... I live in Belgium it is not the most tropical place on earth.But both, open or close, have their pos and neg points. Like said in point 1: Find out your needs, and work according to that.Success if you plan to build your own.

Thx

Thx.I took it trough italy 3 weeks.Will continue on those trips

You're welcome

Hi Madeline.No they don't share electricity...as you can read in my other replies about batteries.Well the biggest need of electricity is the small heater. It's 350Watt on 220V. I actually using 2 converters. One of them is only used for the heater.The rest I kept as low in consumption as possible. Special fridge, led lights and so on.You could use a propeller but that will make consumption of fuel go bigger. So I would go with the solar panel option.Thx for your interest.

Thx. Glad you liked it.

Wow...lot of battery things going on here.Maybe I should have been more clear.The 2 yellow batteries, connected in parallel, are both household (deep drain) batteries. They are connected with the mains of the car battery, but only for charging, when the car is running.If you look at my electrical diagram (sketchy) you will see that there is a circuit breaker between those 2 and the car battery. So the power of the car battery is never used to power the needs in the back or to charge the households.On my schedule I also connected the main positive and main neg to different battery...but not in the car... I forgot why not. And is still adjustable.I hope this clears out all the battery stuff :)Thx for all the nice comments!dieter

Hi Stephane, I see what you mean. But most of the build I used the green MDF...wich is not waterproof but can handle some moisture. I also made sure I had enough ventilation. Not only by the fan on the roof, but I also did not 'seal' some corners. Also original the structure of the car had some air vents which I even opened more.Plywood would have been better....but most of the wood stuff I got for free, so that was a saving in the budget which I could spend on other things. Mostly electrical parts.The van was finished in summer of 2012. We went out with 2 persons for a 3 week trip in Italy. Sleeping in the car every day. At this point today still no humidity problems.But if I had the money or the material available I would have used plywood indeed. ?

Hi Michael, I thought of that too, but its seems non conductive... I've tested before to be sure ;). So there is no problem on shorting the circuit.If people would use some conductive insulation, better not store it with the batteries or have the terminals protected.Thx.

I will try to upload a video with a walktrough ;)

High PeterS13, I have no idea actually ;) the weight is sure within the maximum load... as I never had trouble. The load capacity on this van is 900kg so I guess it would be hard to get over that number.The batteries are the most heavy inside. They weigh about 80kg each. So there is about 160kg only on batteries.I guess add about max 80-90kgs for the rest (alltough that would be too much I think) .... So lets suggests it takes about 250 kgs in total.

Hi Hutch,I understand what you mean, the loads are indeed connected to the first battery, but since there are cables running trough (on top of the batteres) it's kind of connected to second battery also. The resistance of the cables is indead putting a little less to the second battery. I see if I still can arrange the cables to do it right. There had to be a reason why I did it this way... just don't know it anymore... it's about 5 years ago ;)thx for the support!

Hey scastetter,thank you for your reply! I could consider it, depending on the needs of the client and the time I have on my hands ;)