...continued from "Going Boondocking" in the intro section

[crofter]

...They can be acquired without wasting any money. But the work must be done by the individual wishing to master them. I spent decades inventing and perfecting this. I found a simple way to make money while RVing. So I will not teach anyone. I built a thread at a forum to do that job....

Link please. We had a thread on travelling poker tournament dealer job, but have not seen your thread on this casino trade.

Nice custom trailer, sad to hear TTrails not allowing custom rigs & other riff raff. Are they looking for RVIA tags or some other criterion? I suppose no custom vans allowed...

Where are you getting your foam for your build? I have been looking for the thicker stuff Foamular XPS for a while but can only find one inch here.
-crofter

 

[crofter]

Cool layout, though looks like a lot of weight from water on one side. Maybe you could move the fresh tank to the passenger side under sink or something. I carry my fresh water on the passenger side and is pretty stable handling for wild driving.
-crofter

 

[gizmotron]

1.) Link please. We had a thread on travelling poker tournament dealer job, but have not seen your thread on this casino trade.

2.) Nice custom trailer, sad to hear TTrails not allowing custom rigs & other riff raff. Are they looking for RVIA tags or some other criterion? I suppose no custom vans allowed...

3.) Where are you getting your foam for your build? I have been looking for the thicker stuff Foamular XPS for a while but can only find one inch here.
-crofter

Answers: 

1.)  I'm not sure it's proper etiquette to link outside this forum to another forum. I began sharing the secrets to my gambling method back in 2006. It began back then as lunacy to the math oriented ( most widely accepted beliefs) players and flame wars that were epic. Even when I decided to put it all together in one place, support it with free practicing software, and continue to defend it as I gave away a real "Holy Grail" method to win, I was criticized by the very people I set out to embarrass. That is the nature of people. They can't believe it's real because I gave it away for free. I'm not hunting for suckers to pay me for private lessons. Every time someone asks I send them to the thread where I shared it all. So expect the "SOB's" that have attacked me and my ideas for decades to be there and to attempt to interrupt the  learning process. It's not a nice safe place like this and I do take them on with vigor. Never the less the job gets done. Many have tried to learn the skills it takes and they have posted in the thread their work on it. This requires work on your part if you want to perfect it. I doubt that it should ever be discussed here. To see the pictures posted there you must be logged in. Tell them gizmotron sent you.

So if you go look up "Reading Randomness" at google and "gizmotron" with it then you should get sent to the link to the first page of the thread. If they allow a link here then I will post one. I don't want to debate the fact that the mathematicians and the basic belief by the world that "the house always wins" because of a mathematical advantage is the only truth. Reading Randomness, and those that have the skill contradict those long held beliefs. That is why I shared it.

2.) I didn't see any custom vans. Only factory built stuff. You can get in with a tent. or like me, with a car and trailer to tow my tent camping stuff. But you will not be able to stay more than a week, even if you have a three week stay membership. TTN has gone to site leasing on a yearly basis. I'm done with membership parks. I don't want to stay in one place for twoo or three weeks. There are some OK ones that take 50% off a night's stay. And I do plan on hitting a few, once in a while. You get laundromats, shore power, water, and dump stations. I can easily hold out for a week with this new van build design.

3.) I got a great deal on three full sheets of Owens Corning 1 1/2" pink rigid foam for 50% off because the sheets had edge damage from when they were placed on a palette. I was there today getting hose clamps for the rear AC / Heater removal. I'm still waiting on a few parts to complete that job. It's holding up doing the floor. Anyway, HD has a new pile of 1 1/2" foam. I'm going to use laminated bent rafters, like the ones from the tent top in the first rig. I want a slightly domed lid with 3 inches of foam insolation and two layers of 1/4" plywood on top. This will be brush and branches proof, and will hold up nice in the snow. I don't need to walk on it and there will never be solar panels up there. I just want cool in summer and warm in winter. I got hit by a snow storm near San Diego my last year out there. The tent pop-up was warm and toasty. I had insolation on the inside and shore power for a 700 watt oil heater. Some people thought it was a tiny house. Still, TTN 86'ed it.

 

[gizmotron]

Cool layout, though looks like a lot of weight from water on one side. Maybe you could move the fresh tank to the passenger side under sink or something. I carry my fresh water on the passenger side and is pretty stable handling for wild driving.
-crofter

That's good thinking. Only the 30 gallon water tank is out at the edge. The black tank is inside the wheel wells. But I do have a few things at the back that I can move to the right side. And the fridge is where the passenger seat was. But that's good advice. I'm not worried. The difference between a Ford e-150 and a Ford e-350 super duty is the chassis, the load it can carry, and the engine. I have the e-350 with the smaller 327'ish Cubic inch engine. They call it 5.4 liter. I think the e-150 model has the 289 V-8 like back in the days of the Mustang only with modern timing and fuel injection.  I will think about balance. Good suggestion, thanks.

P.S. Oh, when the water tank is full the black tank is empty. When the black tank is full the water tank is empty. But the E-350 is also a three quarter ton job. It can handle all this with ease.

 

[gizmotron]

crofter ;

"Link please. We had a thread on travelling poker tournament dealer job, but have not seen your thread on this casino trade."

So it is OK to post a link to a topic outside of the basic topics here.

I recognize that many here would love to find an income while living a more free "Van" lifestyle.  I came across a phenomenon in randomness back in 1993 while at a Roulette table in Tahoe. It took me decades of making mistakes and losing paychecks to learn what was important, correct, and practical. I even went on gambling forums back in 2006 where I was summarily dismissed as a crackpot for suggesting the notions.

That being said, I did not just fall off the back of a turnup truck regarding professional gambling. Many of you know about Blackjack (21) and card counting. It's a known method that works. The player waits until a favorable condition and then ups their bets. It's very simple to say that but difficult to be good at counting, and reacting to unfavorable conditions that exist while expecting good outcomes. Only a few can make a living at this and do it without getting caught.  Mathematically it is based on the concept of "variable change."

What I have successfully done is introduce the concept of "coincidental change" to mathematics. This has yet to be peer reviewed by the harbors of intellect. That's what makes it an opportunity. It has not gone viral or been turned into a gambling team from MIT. (yet)

The basic concept is to see a trend or a pattern and to use it against future play while this tactic is in a state of working to your advantage. I call this the "effectiveness states." When the trends are working they act like they can tell the future. That of course is magical thinking. Nothing can tell the future outcomes. Yet when gambling, randomness naturally flows in and out of these states in various ways. The skill is in becoming an expert at reading the current conditions of effectiveness. The player gets skilled at raising and lowering their bet amounts depending on the effectiveness of trend or pattern following. That's what makes it coincidental.

Up tell now players have been using trends to win. It does not always work so they have put the kibosh on that notion. But trends can bight you in the backside if you depend on them exclusively. They can look perfectly good and still clobber you when they are used for bet selections. That's what is different about "Reading Randomness." First you must get good at just trend and pattern recognition. Then next you must get good at keeping track of the effectiveness conditions.

Now I shared this much here because this is not some get rich quick and easy solution for your living on the road. It takes years to learn to control your emotions and greed while things go right or wrong.  I have created software, or you can use the internet to get real live spins and practice with pen and paper. You can learn and becomes skilled without exposing a thin dime. You can become very good at this on paper and still get killed off because when you place your money on the line your brain chemistry will attempt to play games with you. This is a condition of experience that you must master as well. Now if you are willing to do all the work it takes then you can go where I shared it all in the full wide open on the internet.

I shared it because someone I have known for years and disagreed with for just about all of that time suggested that I could share it and it would not change the gambling industry. So two years ago I wrote the thread "Reading Randomness." I did it because I have been living with heart failure since 2009. I'm surprised that I have lasted this long. Not even surgery, just pills. I wanted the legacy of having invented "coincidental change," "effectiveness states," "the global effect," and "elegant patterns." It's all there. Nothing is held back.

So be for warned. I have been at war with the "mathBoyz," later to be known as the "mathNazis," and now the "mathZombies," for at least two decades. This notion of coincidental change goes to the heart of current understanding of statistics and probability beliefs. It dumps all that on its ears. I'm telling you that you will need to filter out the skeptics, trolls, and very mean comments that interfere with this thread. In spite of all that I complete the job and share it all. I answer questions. There are examples, pictures, and video links.  There are many there that have succeeded and managed to disintegrate the current day notions of mathematical dogma. They have done the impossible and gotten 66% or better when 50% / 50% is considered impossible by all the mathZombies. Thanks to Dolores O'riordan; The Cranberries, "Zombie," "What's in your head -- Zombie?"

Go Here: https://www.gamblingforums.com/threads/reading-randomness.14733/

Remember to see pictures you must log in and register to join the forum.

 

[gizmotron]

OK, my parts came in so I removed the rear AC / Heater. Got some lumber so I can now build the floor with interlocked 1x4's, with 1 1/2" solid Owens Corning insolation. The 1x4's are bolted to the floor with the old seat bolts hard points. There is a section with no floor so that the bottom of the black water tank can sit below the finished floor height. I will show a picture later how this all fits together. I might even get the toilette so that you can see it all as a cut away view, like a set of blueprints. That's the part that is interesting. Then I won't have to explain it. Right after that junk is all fitted together I can build the back wall for between the mechanical area and the back side of the bathroom/shower/sink.

 

[wayne49]

"Zombie" is a favorite song, and video, of mine. I hadn't heard of the Cranberries until 2002.
Immediately, I purchased their greatest hits CD, "Stars The Best Of The Cranberries 1992-2002".

Interesting build, you skipped the usual grey tank, did you think about having two waste tanks or just go right to a single waste tank? Smart to have a larger capacity waste tank than the fresh water supply tank, but is one gallon more enough to account for urine production over a number of days?

My Tioga when delivered in 1989 had a 40 gallon fresh water, a 25 gallon grey, and a 30 gallon black tank. 15 gallons total more waste than fresh. After I purchased it in 2016, I found that the fresh water tank was only 30 gallons, it must have been replaced at some point. I make up the difference by carrying six gallon "jerry" cans, made by Igloo, of fresh water. These cans have nozzles to add the water through the fresh water inlet. The Aquatainer blue cubes do not have that capability.

 

[gizmotron]

"Zombie" is a favorite song, and video, of mine. I hadn't heard of the Cranberries until 2002.
Immediately, I purchased their greatest hits CD, "Stars The Best Of The Cranberries 1992-2002".

Funny that. I had heard the song and thought it was alright, like back in the days of video TV. But I never listened to the words. Somehow a few hears ago I saw the video again and this time listened to the words. That video has over a billion listens on YouTube.  Anyway I loved the part where it says "what's in your head, Zombie." That took me right to the ever present and obnoxious mathBoyz for decades ago. This song is where I got mathZombies. 

 

[gizmotron]

Interesting build, you skipped the usual grey tank, did you think about having two waste tanks or just go right to a single waste tank? Smart to have a larger capacity waste tank than the fresh water supply tank, but is one gallon more enough to account for urine production over a number of days?

Dare I say mortgageZombie on this forum? "What's in your head," paying half your after taxes income to a monument of expectation's of others that don't actually like or care about you?

Actually I left the gray tank out on purpose. As you know some places let you dump out the gray water, be it outdoor showers or the occasional dish soap. I have a system where I take all the grease and food waste off my plates and pans with paper towels, and haul it out as trash. All that is left behind is washing hands, showers, and rinse water. My sink in the bathroom has no drain. I have an option to drain the shower pan into a 7 gallon portable holding tank, just water and soap. I'm use to 6 gallon showers, (Navy Shower technique.) Generally I hook up a garden hose and drain the shower pan off form under my rig. So my sink water is used to fill the toilette when it needs more water. I never use fresh water from that tank to fill the toilette. Well almost never. I have been dumping the gray water, even in some resort camping membership parks, where they allow it. 

I have a seven gallon tote bottle that I purchase my drinking water for at the stores where you can do that. It is used for coffee and iced tea only. My fresh water tank is never for drinking. I can pump water from a lake or river into it. It's for showers or the toilette eventually. I use it to wash stuff. I drain it and disinfect it often. I use water from RV campsites to fill it mainly.

I stay in Casino parking lots a lot. Every three of four days I hit an RV park with water. I dump my tank, fill up my water, and sometimes use their laundromat. But I can force a longer remote stay as long as I can dump the gray. This is very old hat for me. For two and one half years all I used was a blue mobile dump tank that held everything, 25 gallons, and was on wheels with a tow hitch adapter. I used the membership park's system for everything. I'm 100% sure of my tank usage. I'm not even going to put tank sensors in. I can see the fresh water tank from the back section. I can see the fulness of the black tank from the bathroom toilette drain. The shower pan is free flowing to a hose bib at the back. The sink is a bowl that can be lifted out and dumped into the shower pan or toilette. I could put a drain and trap in the sink and run it to the shower pan drain outlet, maybe a good idea. But I would need an additional bowl in there to capture toilette water. I'm a bum. I don't care to win a cabinet contest or the happiest plumbing job award. I built multi million dollar award winning houses. I could use 3 1/2 inch shaper blades and 7 coat gleaming finishes. Even gold plated hardware. Real hardwood floors. I'm not going to do any of that. You guys can have all the esteem and pride that you want. I might just use paint. I want a real RV style glass door on the bathroom, just like you see in the million dollar rigs. That's my only cool thing. I'm using FRP everywhere in the bathroom. The rest is cheap 1/4 inch plywood that gets a few coats of varnish. The walls are all over lots of sound barrier and isolation. I'm building for maximin insolation.

Fresh air flow will travel over the top of the shower door to my Fantastic Fan. A sliding window in my RV door will allow fresh air in even when all closed up on the outside. My cargo door right there has a push out window option.

 

[gizmotron]

OK, now I can get going again. I completed the siding and trim on the barn so it now is completed.

I just installed the part of the floor that will contain the blackwater tank. Tomorrow I will do the shower pan side and perhaps the temp floor for the toilet. It all fits to within a 16th of an inch between the wheel wells. There will be a shelf on the shower side that covers the side of the shower and the wheel well. Hiding inside walls will be the water tank. I'm testing to see if I can use the toilet without building the raised top. It's looking very close. I found a 13" tall Thetford Toilet to sit on top of the black water tank. If I don't do anything to the van top in the shower / toilet area I might just be able to sit all the way up. Then I can do some temp work on the ceiling for the rest of the van, for now.

 

[gizmotron]

OK, got a little further. Soon I can plywood the back and show how the tanks, shower pan, and toilet would look all installed.

 

[gizmotron]

Got the test setup all in place so that I could see if I could sit down on a 13" tall percaline Thetford Low Profile RV Toilette without popping a high top on the van. I can. I just have to duck my head a little at the neck. I can also sit on a lower stool in the shower pan and sit all the way up in order to take a sit down shower.

The little platform sitting on top of the tank's area is 13" tall. So I will be able to go camping at first without having to install a homemade high top. This is fully stealthy. All the tank drain points are just inside behind the back doors, real low. The only thing on top at first will be a Maxxfan. The windows will be blacked out with perforated vinyl in back. To use the living space I will sit upright in a roll-around desk chair. If I want to cook standing up I will just go outside around back and use the back end's tailgating option.

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[gizmotron]

Moving forward to the front of the van now:

Got some picks where I leveled the new floor with glued in place furring strips and the first layer of 1x4's.

 

[gizmotron]

So after sitting on my imaginary percaline thrown I would have to duck my head just to take a dump. And I really wanted to stand up for the showers. So I'm going to build a pop top just for the bathroom. I like rolling around on a desk chair to do things in the main part of the van. I don't need the entire top being built up when all I need is the bathroom space. So it alone will stick up 12" on the inside when retracted and 24" when extended upward. That will give me 6ft tall in the shower/toilette/sink area. The Maxxfan will go in the top of the popup.

 

[Cammalu]

If you ever sell that one little area that pops up might be a problem. Why not just make the whole thing pop up. If it’s nice it should add value.

 

[gizmotron]

I was thinking of including a Howitzer in the pop up turret. So that might bring the value back up. It would be used to deal with unruly traffic.

Actually I have no interest in selling this. What might happen later is a full sized fixed high top.

I started out wanting to build a unique Kampmaster type of a home build. (see picture )  I got a kick out of being able to tailgate cook like most teardrop trailers that have that feature. I built and lived in my first rig. But it took at least 90 minutes to get ready to tow it. It also took 90 minutes to set it up too. That grew old. Also I wanted a full bathroom facility. I still wanted to do most of the cooking out the back. I can cook inside if the weather is bad. I like camping and being outside. I go to places where that makes sense. When I stay overnight at the casino I plan on meals in the casino. I earn comp points on their player's cards and use them for meals.

Anyway to have a heavy popup teardrop trailer you need a bigger than average tow vehicle. The van does it all in one vehicle. If I ever go with a full fixed high top it will be a bigger cut out than the bathroom popup. So "easy peasy japanesey," and presto, the popup is gone.

 

[gizmotron]

It was good to sleep on this idea. I'm just going to put a roof blister up there for now. It will be high enough to sit up straight. I can take the showers sitting down. A fixed roof is so much easier to deal with. If I ever want a full stand up high roof it will be easy to cut the blister out with the rest of the roof.

 

[gizmotron]

Added some of the insolation at the back. Put down some subflooring over it that.  The bare notch outs are for plumbing. The blackwater tank and the shower drain to the back from inside the van and not from underneath it like is traditionally done. Not that I'm building a bathroom for stealthy van, but this is completely hidden when the back doors or closed.

 

[gizmotron]

When I ripped out the panels for the passenger area and flooring I got a bunch of wool felt insolation. I kept it. I stuffed it in-between the walls around the wheel wells. This will add a little insolation and sound deadening in those areas.

 

[gizmotron]

Set the 31 gallon blackwater tank. Fits nice & snug and 1/8" down down from the top.