Honeysuckle Rose

[oltrunt]

Hello All.

The walls on my pop top are canvas and let heat out of the bus like an open window. The rest of the bus is insulated with 2" thick foam--top, bottom and sides and the windows are dual glazed. I've been toying with insulating the pop top and today I finished up a snap in liner that still leaves me enough room to stand up. I started with a queen size all season down comforter which I cut and sewed to fit the top. We're heading to Yosemite next week and it will probably still be cold enough to give the igloo a good test.  I just checked the weather there and it is snowing.  I may have to scronge up chains-- We'll see! Jack

Summer view of pop top.
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Winter view.

[Gary Hatt - Publisher BCM]

Hey old runt,

It gets very cold up there after the sun goes down.  Is Lorna going to let you keep the heat on all night or are you going to have to gather up a bunch of rocks to heat up by the campfire and put them in bed with you to keep you warm all night?

A few of those 3-4" oval river rocks will keep you warm all night.  The bigger the better as the larger ones tend to keep the heat in longer.  Then stuff them inside big socks so they will not burn you at first and will be softer to the touch.

Just don't take any that have soaked in a creek or anyplace they would gather a lot of moisture as they can explode when being heated which may poke a hole in your new blanket.  

Gary

[Dave5Cs]

Jack the wife take and fills soaks with Rice and sews the end shut. Then puts them in the MW for 2 minutes and sticks them in the bottom of the blankets. It heats them up nice and your feet stay warm.
Dave5Cs

[lvmci]

hi Jack, ingenious solution, tom...

[Jeremy]

Never seen a bus with a pop-up top like that. They're still used on (small) motorhomes here occasionally (sometimes with beds inside them), but putting one in a bus is an intriguing and quite attractive idea. Did you fit it yourself? I strong suspect that merely suggesting cutting a hole that big in the roof would cause many here to predict earthquakes, floods, plagues of locusts and various other apocalyptic end-of-life-as-we-know it scenarios

Jeremy

[eagle19952]

Never seen a bus with a pop-up top like that. They're still used on (small) motorhomes here occasionally (sometimes with beds inside them), but putting one in a bus is an intriguing and quite attractive idea. Did you fit it yourself? I strong suspect that merely suggesting cutting a hole that big in the roof would cause many here to predict earthquakes, floods, plagues of locusts and various other apocalyptic end-of-life-as-we-know it scenarios

Jeremy

i believe this to also be a very vintage coach...not your average new age 40 footer

[oltrunt]

Jeremy, the original design of the bus made it easy to do the pop top as there was a boxed hole in the roof from the factory.  I simply removed the flat filler plate.  Donald is right about HR being a vintage bus--she is a 1935 Chevy school bus.  Jack

Factory "sun roof".

[TheMightyQuinn]

Very cool! Reminds me of my VW bus days. Always had the camper versions and most had a fiberglass pop top as well.

[Jeremy]

Thanks for the info - and I've just been looking at a build thread of your bus on another site - very cool work indeed, and knocks most of our efforts into a cocked hat.

Oh, and a matching Moggy Traveller as a toad!

Jeremy