welcome back to episode 18 of building
our ultimate expedition vehicle
in this episode we wrap up the giant
back wall closet
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last night we worked late and we got
all of our drawers in so we have
nine drawers of storage which is insane
and today we're going to work on making
all of our cabinet friends
so we have nine drawer fronts a false
front
three cabinet doors up here and we're
also going to make
two cabinet doors for here one for there
and one for over here let's go make a
lot of sawdust
we've got all of our hopefully correct
dimensions
it's time to start cutting pieces so we
put some blind faith into the
spreadsheet
cut a billion pieces and hope we make
the right size doors
i went ahead with painters tape and i
numbered everything so that we'll be
able to match up our finished drawer and
door fronts
so all of a sudden everything stopped we
tripped the breaker
and i think we know why now we're in the
zone with the planer
forgot to check on the vacuum the filter
is very clogged
we bought all that wood and then we're
just shaving it off
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because these two top drawers are so
skinny we're not gonna make a shaker
style panel
we're just gonna do a solid slap for
this one and that one over there
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this knotty alder plywood has a really
thin veneer so i'm not using the orbital
sander i'm just hand sanding it
and then i'm also knocking all the edges
on the perimeter
that way when we go to assemble it
there's not a rough edge that wants to
catch and chip out
we're using alder because it's durable
but still pretty lightweight and it's
really pretty once it's stained but it
takes stain blotchy so i'm going to
start by using this pre-stain wood
conditioner
what that does is it soaks in and really
helps the top stain go on a lot more
evenly so you don't end up with
blotchiness
the wood conditioner sat for about five
to ten minutes then i'm going to
go now with my early american stain and
stain them
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so here we have our spreadsheet built
and whenever we cut a piece we mark it
with green
that way we don't necessarily have to go
in order we can go in
whichever way optimizes the material and
we keep track and know that we've cut
every piece
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little teflon dry lube stuff goes a long
ways to
making the saw more slippery and the
pieces go through easily
in all of our door pieces and drawer
fronts we need to cut
a dado into the side of the part for
the panel to slide into so we have this
blade adjusted here
to cut the dado as we run these through
like this and i check to make sure it's
centered
like this
run it through flip it over it should
also slide right in
like that that's how you know where
you're centered
so now we've got the dado cut and all of
our pieces for the panel
it's time to cut this tongue in that'll
fit into that dado groove
like that and make our drawer uh fronts
and our door frames
it's important to note the tongue only
gets cut on the rails and not the styles
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well i did it and i cut the tongue into
the style and not the rail on accident
so now i need to remake these
so last night i worked in the dark and i
got all of our bits and pieces sanded
and that is going to make assembly go a
lot quicker today
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this is the largest door in the camper
and the way that the layout worked out
we weren't going to end up with a wide
enough piece of plywood
to make this panel so rather than having
to buy a whole extra 100
sheet of older plywood i decided to add
a center style
in this cabinet and use two pieces for
the panel instead
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so i'm in here working on the cabinets
and i'm thinking that riley thought he
was pretty funny with this sticker
it took you a while to notice it how
long has it been in here
so this cabinet opening is where our
water heater is
but we still want to turn it out so it
looks good so we built
this false front and we'll just nail
this on and then that way if we ever
need to get it off we can just pop it
off
i made this extremely clear template so
this side is for the box
this side is for the drawer i circle the
holes i'm supposed to use and i put x's
on the ones and not
the shipments that are latches line up
perfectly every time
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my
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to open the drawers we're using these
momentary buttons that we're installing
into the face of the drawer
so press the button and it releases the
latch this is a very tedious process and
riley has been down there
working for a very long time but we got
one down
and uh three to go and then after those
three are done then four to go and then
after those are done then two to go
three to go and then another one to go
and then another one to go so these are
the electronic latches that we're using
basically when you close the drawer
that little tongue catches this catch um
when you and then when you hit the
button
it releases it if for some reason the
electromagnet
solenoid in here fails you can also
release it by clicking on this as a fail
safe
the way we've wired this in we've got
power coming in here
there's the power wire going to
electromagnet the power continues on to
the next drawer and then we're switching
the ground so this wire comes over
and switches the ground side so when i
hit the momentary button
the latch goes off this is a little
spring plunger there will be a block on
the side of the drawer
so that when you release the latch the
spring plunger wants to push the drawer
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open
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it works
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where is the clamp
sometimes riley loses things and by
sometimes i mean all the time
where was it right where i left we're
working on installing cabinet doors
it's sunday of january
i don't know we're getting very close to
the camper being this is a day that ends
in day
i'm drilling the clearance holes for the
concealed hinges i've got this
fancy little jig and it works really
well
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i haven't wired the button on this one
yet but i closed the door
and now it's locked closed and we can't
get into that cabinet to click the
little manual override so
i'm gonna drill a little hole so i can
put a pokey thing in there
and then we will have a way to get into
this one
i kept telling him as he was installing
this latch don't close it before you
wire the button
don't close it and then you closed it
and this is how boone feels about the
situation
luckily there is an easy fix there's a
pokey thing through the hole
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got it open don't close it don't wire it
courtney's still in the alder and it's
pretty crazy the difference
from the right to the left there on the
drawer faces
between sealed and unsealed
riley is now working on installing the
cabinet doors for the bed cabinets i'm
sitting here admiring the closet because
it really did come out better
than i thought it was going to this
thing came out awesome
and it's ginormous there's so much
storage
what are we going to put in these and i
really don't know
maybe beer
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we are getting very eager to hit the
road
so we've been doing a lot of working in
the dark so we're going to cut down our
closet pole in the dark it's kind of how
our projects go
in the dark in the beginning in the dark
in the end courtney doesn't need no man
she films herself
one woman show around here i was going
to buy a normal closet pole and then we
were at our local hardwood supplier and
they had
this really cool oblong closet pole that
takes up less space
and it's going to work perfect
our closet is not full hanger depth and
they weren't going to fit
and i found children's hangers they're a
few inches narrower so we're about to
see
if it works luckily riley has narrow
shoulders
perfect now we'll be able to fit
way more clothes than if we had to put
the pole the other way
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