So I decided I would cut it up and make it into cushion covers as I just happened to have some cushions on a lounge suite I made in 1970 that also falls into the previously mentioned category.
It suits the colour scheme quite well and it will do quite well until I decide to "lash out" with the $1500 I was quoted for cushions and covers!
The rear outside panel has been covered with ugly pieces of duct tape covering up the holes I had drilled some time ago for "hard mounting points". So it was time to replace them with the proper fittings.
First the holes needed enlarging, but there are "rivnuts" behind them for bolting into which I did not want to damage - so the pilot drill in a holesaw was reversed so it would be guided but would not damage the rivnut.
The holes were drilled out to the main structural beam and exposing the rivnut.
Next some "buttons" were turned out of stainless 316 with the small end just fitting inside the hole drilled by the holesaw and the length of it equal to the thickness of the fibreglass. This lets me silicone underneath it and then bolt it up tight without crushing the fibreglass creating a good seal and a solid mounting point.
Looks like a case of the measles at the moment but all sorts of things (not least one or two spare wheels and a motorcycle) will be bolted to it eventually.
Back to the interior . . .
First the table top to go into the seating area under the bed.
A sheet of timber veneer chipboard 18mm thick was cut to size and the two outside corners rounded off to avoid damaged hips etc when walking by.
Some solid timber was dressed to 30mm thick to give a more solid appearance and cut to match the corners (held in place here by "Sich")
These were glued and clamped to the two rounded corners until set
and then 30mm x 30mm straight pieces fitted all round to make a nice solid edge.
This can now be sanded smooth and polished for later fitting.
The pantry and workdesk doors were also tackled in a similar manner, but as they are doors they only need an 18mm x 10mm thick straight piece mitred around all four sides.
Sich, whose workshop I am using for all the woodwork, has an amazing faith in polyurethane glue (the ordinary old white stuff you can buy for all home woodwork) and insists that this glue is all that is needed with just some masking tape providing clamping until it sets - and he allows about an hour for that to happen!! I always manage to find an excuse to leave it overnight before I do any more work on it :)
Now if I just manage to leave them in the right place in his paint shop they might get "accidentally" sanded and polished by the time I get back . . . .
