Day One

The roar of the diesel engine woke me yesterday and I pulled the curtains aside to see who had arrived.  It was the salvage truck, here to take the damaged "Airstream" to the junk-yard.

This is what an "Airstream" looks like after you've rolled it across the highway. Not a pretty sight.

Now it was time to work on our trailer and the first job of the day was removing the battery box and re-attaching the front panel to the frame of the trailer.

We pulled back the moulding strip, added sealent under the panels, put sealant on the new pop-rivets and put it back together, better than new. Fortunately there was no floor rot or water damage.

While we worked the two Marys chatted and visited outside.

Here Paul is working on the "transfer" switch, located at the back of the trailer in our bedroom. This switch will sense the shore power hook-up and prevent the electrical system from trying to draw power  from the batteries at the same time as shore power is available.

Today we have the controller, inverter and battery box to install. Then if we have time we need to fabricate the frame for the solar panels and the mounting system for the roof.

Check back tomorrow to see how we are progressing.