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Friends, I would like your input on a wet room base and drain for my box truck.  I’m leaning towards fabricating my own wet room base pan out of ¾” birch ply.  I’m confident that I can make a stiff, leak-proof base pan through good construction, good support, good joinery, pack the joints with...

After lots of studying and shopping, on Saturday I bought a 14' U-Haul box truck.  It's a 2007 Ford E450 Super Duty with 129K miles.  It's also a non-running mechanic's special, reported to have a blown head gasket.  I had it towed to my house yesterday.   I removed the middle seat to clear the...

I have been shopping for a 14’ U-Haul truck for several months.  I’m sharing what I’ve learned so far, hoping that someone will correct me if I got it wrong, and also in case someone has some additional tips and tricks for buying the truck I want. I’ve been visiting the U-Haul Truck Sales...

A friend asked me to convert her jon boat into a mini bass boat.  Not a van or a box truck, but practice in fabrication and figuring out how to build stuff.  The biggest task is framing out the front half of the boat for a casting deck, and I saw a clever idea last night:  Cut up an aluminum...

Is what you seek really still a thing? For context, I'm shopping for a box truck to build out, that I might go in search of a cool place and resettle there.  But it seems that every day I read or see on TV something severely horrifically uncool happening, and hey I thought that was a cool...

Hi gang, and thanks for all the great information so far.  I'm a retired paratrooper, married, no children, no worries, home paid for, etc.  For several years I've been studying lifestyle alternatives.  I've studied several countries as candidates for expat living.  I've studied several...