Cool Schoolie

[Iceni John]

They still don't ride quite as smooth as a hwy coach. You guys using ikea presswood cabinets...how do you keep them from breaking and coming off the wall?


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I'm thinking of using the IKEA mushboard merely as the external covering over a separate internal frame that will take the loads, i.e. the visible IKEA part of it won't be load-bearing, but will be just the outer "skin" on the skeleton inside.   I also want to mount each cabinet independently of its neighbours with a small space between them to absorb any movement or flexing, and to secure each cabinet at only three points so each one can move without strain, sort of like how a Mercedes Unimog is made.   Each cabinet will have an aluminum angle skeleton bolted to the seat rails at two points and to the side wall at one point.

As for ride, Crown dialed it in just right with my bus.   It rides better than some highway coaches I've been in, so I'm not too worried about things jiggling loose over time like always happen in other leaf-spring buses.   Dog-nose and flat-front FE skoolies are notoriously rough-riding unless they have air bags in the back.

John

[Darkspeed]

I'm thinking of using the IKEA mushboard merely as the external covering over a separate internal frame that will take the loads, i.e. the visible IKEA part of it won't be load-bearing, but will be just the outer "skin" on the skeleton inside.   I also want to mount each cabinet independently of its neighbours with a small space between them to absorb any movement or flexing, and to secure each cabinet at only three points so each one can move without strain, sort of like how a Mercedes Unimog is made.   Each cabinet will have an aluminum angle skeleton bolted to the seat rails at two points and to the side wall at one point.

As for ride, Crown dialed it in just right with my bus.   It rides better than some highway coaches I've been in, so I'm not too worried about things jiggling loose over time like always happen in other leaf-spring buses.   Dog-nose and flat-front FE skoolies are notoriously rough-riding unless they have air bags in the back.

John

A lot of the airstream folks make the cabinets out of aluminum L , rivets, and aluminum panels, then hang a nice pre-finished Ikea door on the front.

[Iceni John]

A lot of the airstream folks make the cabinets out of aluminum L , rivets, and aluminum panels, then hang a nice pre-finished Ikea door on the front.

That would certainly work for me.   It sounds like they and I are on the same page for this.   I'm no woodworker and don't have any tools for doing that stuff, so I'll need to buy the wood part already finished and ready to use.   Heck, maybe I should make even the fronts from aluminum!   As far as I'm concerned, the less wood visible, the better.   I'll certainly have more things inside my bus made from Industrial Metal Supply than from Ganahl Lumber!

John

[Darkspeed]

That would certainly work for me.   It sounds like they and I are on the same page for this.   I'm no woodworker and don't have any tools for doing that stuff, so I'll need to buy the wood part already finished and ready to use.   Heck, maybe I should make even the fronts from aluminum!   As far as I'm concerned, the less wood visible, the better.   I'll certainly have more things inside my bus made from Industrial Metal Supply than from Ganahl Lumber!

John