I Built a Camper From Scratch in 3 Weeks

this video is sponsored by draftsight building a teardrop trailer camper has been on my maker bucket list for quite a few years now the appeal of this tiny home on Wheels that's light enough to be towed by my little Subaru has been undeniable and I've spent so many nights called up in my back seat wishing I had a better way to go Mobile in The Great Outdoors it's been both too daunting and way too expensive for me to try it until this summer I finally decided to just take the risk and go for it and so I designed and built this custom teardrop in exactly three weeks foreign so before I can build my camper I need some Wheels to build the camper onto I opted for aluminum to keep weight down so this is a 5x6 foot trailer kit from trailx that's actually designed for small teardrops and I was able to get most of it done alone but sometimes it's just better to have some friends these are my friends Piper Nica because if you're wondering why the hell we're drawing lines on these it's 8 it's a sure that you actually torqued every bolt as you're going through and then B so that when you look at this after driving 10 000 miles down the road and you see that these lines are broken you realize that you may be shouldn't drive any further before hitting up with some more torque The Next Step was to prep the backyard for three weeks of absolute insanity and more importantly place the trailer such that it can in fact get wheeled out when it's done being constructed and before starting assembly I wanted to protect the marine plywood that's going to be facing the street so I painted it with a bilge paint so this is total bilge by little tote and that'll just keep like oil and water and grease off of the wood now that we're ready to get started the first thing to do was to cut down the pre-built painted subfloor and mount that to the trailer itself so I drilled holes through up through the trailer and then through the floor and then bolted it down okay what are the really fun lessons I think I learned in this project is that a lot of people use my shop is one of my love languages because nothing gave me the warm fuzzies like seeing other people enjoying themselves with my tools it's just it's just so nice anyway we got some two by twos and ripped them down into sorry we grabbed some two by fours and ripped them into two by twos so that we could use that to frame out the insulation of the subfloor now the construction of the floor is really interesting so the bottom piece is the three quarter inch plywood and it extends the entire width of the trailer but then the next two pieces were in set three quarters of an inch so that the side walls have something vertical to mount to and with that frame it was just a matter of cutting the insulation to fit and popping it in there and then we could cover that up with the interior floor to save weight I use half inch instead of three quarter on the interior floor and then just patched up the screw holes with fixed wood now it is absolutely possible to do this project by hand people have been designing things and Building Things without computers for as long as Humanity has existed however the only reason I was able to get this project done in three weeks is because I designed it in CAD ahead of time and then I was able to bring all of the rounded pieces over to my friend Rick who has a 4x8 foot CNC machine and we were able to cut them all out in one day and that brings us to a huge thank you to today's sponsor for making that happen so a huge number of things we use on a daily basis are manufactured from stock flat materials that are cut by CNC Mills or laser cutters and folded or assembled kind of like origami this process allows us to know exactly how much material we will need and allows us to build gigantic things just like this project CAD is an indispensable tool for making things accurately and quickly which is why I'm excited to talk about this video sponsor draftsight draftsight is a trusted 2D 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something like some kind of internal structure to mount to so um we're cutting out here the vertical piece that sits at the end of your feet and that will go in first and we put that in with pocket holes because I figure it's not going to be super visible so we pocket hold that in and that will give us something to mount those vertical walls too and with all the CNC pieces we need to cut and sand all the little tabs off which is super easy and quick all right are you guys ready to teardrop this yeah yeah visible progress let's go oh nice bucket hat yeah yeah that's so styling those are going on for this one did you get the sidewalls on we just lifted it up and pre-drilled and screwed in from the sides into the wood that was there and it was important to pre-drill because we were countersinking it since the exterior wall is gonna sit flush against this one and then we went in and did the exact same thing on the other side foreign [Music] and then we went ahead and added one of the Cross braces towards the front and that will hold the two sides perfectly parallel so that we can go in and put in like the kitchenette pieces the rest of the framing towards the back knowing that the sides are straight [Music] [Music] distract us next it was time for the new structural cross braces so we pocket hold each of the little inset pouches that we've cnc'd out for the braces to sit in cut the braces down and installed about half of them leaving a gap for the present where we have to cut a curved like perfectly fit angled piece that can hold the pet [Music] foreign [Music] I think we're perfect and with one perfect fit it was simply a matter of replicating it so we did that and then we went out and installed the rest of the top roof braces [Music] and this brought the lovely first weekend of Nico and Piper helping me to a close so the next morning I was solo again and I started doing the exact same thing framing out the Skylight and I decided that I wanted to have a stargazer window that is like right above where you sleep um and it's gonna be like a Crystal Clear polycarb Window and with the Stargazer window frame in it was time to prep for putting a roof on this thing so I started by actually just round over routing all of the pieces so that the plywood that was going to bend against it didn't have like really hard edges and then I also took a belt sander to some spots just to kind of even it out and make sure there were no high spots and then I could get started on actually getting the wiggle wit up getting the wiggle wit up for this roof is one of the hardest things I think I've ever tried to attempt solo uh but it was just like a lot of creative clamping and use of all appendages and eventually I made it work so the the general process is I would run a bead of Liquid Nails on the stud and then nail it in with a nail gun and you know have you truly lived until you've tried to rip a 4x8 sheet of Wiggle wood down on the table saw by yourself I think not but I am proud to say that I have now lived and then that little strip was a much more manageable install and then with the interior roof installed until the again that Skylight area I was able to go in and put the rest of the brace pieces on and I waited and left it open so it'd be easier to get that like full sheet of plywood in and up against the top but now that it's already in I can I can put these brace pieces on no problem so I screwed them in and then um went and did the exact same thing with liquid nails and electric nails to install the roof and while I was at it I cut this like funky angled piece for the bottom so that the exterior roof has something to meet I also bilge painted the bottom half of the kitchen Galley area just because I felt like that was the area that was going to leak I don't know it was a hunch and then with the Mainframe looking pretty good I Enlisted the help of my friend Natalie to start work on the kitchen Galley Hatch and this was I think the hardest part just structurally is like really difficult but the curved pieces we did on the CNC and then we had to cut the cross braces with little notches in them so the curved pieces could sit inside and then I think the key here was assembling it and clamping it together in place and then bringing it into the shop to screw together but by putting it together in place we knew it was gonna fit um and then there was this tricky part of cutting the angle of where the hatch meets the the main frame and that's the bottom piece of the hatch and once that was cut screwed in and assembled it was time to start gluing the skin on for the main body of the trailer I used all quarter inch wiggle wood so the interior roof and then the exterior roof which I'll you'll see soonish but for the Galley Hatch I've heard a lot of stories of it of the plywood like pulling it open a little bit so I actually opted for two sheets of eighth inch plywood and then you kind of get the bent lamination effect where it even makes it stronger because of the glue and so we just put down Liquid Nails glued it on and threw some Nails in there as well next it was time to cut out the holes for the Skylight and the roof vent in the interior roof and so I did that just by drilling a big hole and then trim routing up against the frame [Music] busted a hole in my perfectly good ceiling let there be light yeah that like opens up the space yeah really does all right this guy's gonna be miserable I have a doctor's appointment 30 minutes my doctor's gonna think I'm insane [Music] are you okay yeah just a little dandruff you know nothing some head and shoulders can't fix [Music] next I installed the shelf for the interior cabinet and the trick for this is that like to avoid pocket holes or just seeing screw heads in general as trying to come in from the sides as much as possible because the external walls will cover all of those screw heads so we held it in place marked where it was going to be pilot holed out from the inside and then held it in place as we screwed it in through those pilot holes from the outside if that makes sense and then since my plywoods didn't match I thought it looked kind of funky so I decided to paint a lot of it white it's still going to have a lot of wood interior but the plywood I turned white for the cabinet itself I used a nice piece of cherry plywood and that will match the exterior of the trailer and cut it to size and then I routed the doors out so that the grain would match all the way across and I did that sort of just by building a little frame running the router up against the frame um and and then I had I had doors uh and then the important thing was I pre-drilled the hinges before we put the cabinet in um and even though I didn't put the hinges and the doors on it'll make sure that once they do go on they're straight because we lined it up while it was horizontal on a table since the cabinet face is entirely non-structural to put it up to install it we just put a bead of construction adhesive on each face all the faces that would meet each other and then like put it up squared it and used a bunch of nails and that way we didn't have to worry about ugly screw heads or anything like that for the smaller shelf that will sit under the cabinet I did it exactly the way I did the cabinet shelf except out of cherry plywood because it's going to be visible [Music] and to match the Cherry theme for the headboard I decided to make out of a solid piece of cherry so I just cut it down to size and then the tricky part was measuring the angle of where the back wall meets the floor and then cut that into the piece with the table saw and then I decided to chamfer The Edge a little for a little artistic Flair and then install it and that headboard closed up the interior so we were ready to put on the exterior walls and the roof but first we had to sneak in all of the wiring so that it would be invisible and it's going to be completely sandwiched between the interior and exterior roofs which is a little bit scary because if something goes wrong like there isn't really a way to go in and fix it um but you can always run a visible wire if you really need to so all of the wiring happened we did all of the switches the lights Etc and then ran that towards the front of the trailer where it will poke out of the exterior roof and into a tongue box that houses the battery and all the wiring harnesses fuse box and stuff Okay so uh we're gonna test the lights for the first time and so all the wiring is running up through here do it let's go over there with the structural interior and the wiring completed we were clear to put those exterior walls on so I did this with a ton of construction adhesive I just went Ham on it because I really didn't want any screw heads showing and then we placed it and I could put screws along the bottom where it'll be covered by an aluminum like scratch plate and then we also put screws in from the top inside the roof if that makes sense so like the spots in between each of the braces we could put a screw from the inside going out [Music] Piper look we put up aside I'm just excited Nico look we put up aside yeah yeah I just like punched it on you and it's way too dark I have to he has clamps a man with a clamp I guess they're cut cut and then with one happy side on WE of course went and did the other side [Music] it is now night time so we get two whoa wow it's very bright the next morning I got to work on some more interior stuff so I trimmed the Cherry shelf to make it look a little nicer and so you don't see the plywood Edge and then I also began varnishing all of the cherry and wood inside and it oh it made it look so good uh and then I also as sort of an afterthought decided to add little reading lights so these are like touch activated lights and I think they kind of class the place up and also the main overhead lights were so bright last night that I thought this would be like a nice dimmer option next I cut and fit all of the foam insulation so that we could get ready and install that exterior wreath and the exterior roof is put on with again Liquid Nails on all of the wooden braces and then Nails straight in through the quarter inch wiggle wood and just like the inside with the 4x8 sheet on there was still a strip that needed to be cut so we cut second one and of course it wasn't like a perfect perfect square so it involved it just a little bit of sanding and fitting got nothing [Music] then for the small Gap at the bottom we cut two smaller pieces so that we could Mount them and we wanted the Gap in the middle for all of the wires to come out to prep for fiberglassing I gave everything a quick once-over with the sander just to get out of me like scratches and scuffs or things that could get picked up or highlighted by the glass and then I went ahead and did a massive scale eight foot fiberglassing job all by myself and you know what I nailed it I'm super proud I guess that's sort of par for the course on the xylophox Lin covers everything in Bottle to epoxy and fiberglass Channel but just let me have this one because it was like pretty tough and I used the same technique that I always do and I think I share on like pretty much all of my videos on this channel where I it's really important to lay your glass out and in this case I actually taped it down um so that it could it would stay since this was vertical that made it like extra challenging and then I just use my run my hands over it and flatten it out before epoxy even gets evolved because as soon as you get epoxy and you get like bubbles in your boxy you're kind of screwed so you want to make sure it's like a perfect layup before the epoxy even gets mixed another important thing to note is that I didn't wait until sunset so that I could get this beautiful sun glare in the camera it was actually because I mean it's August in Los Angeles and epoxy really shouldn't be worked with at above 75 or 80 degrees especially for something this big where I needed to mix all of the epoxy at once and let it sit there and so I didn't want it to exotherm so I had to wait for the sun to set and for it to cool down so that it would go flawlessly now the main reason that I'm fiberglassing this at all is because this Cherry plywood is not technically exterior grade and I got worried that the water would damage it and it just wouldn't be able to stand up to the test of time and the other reason is that I really wanted to be able to wrap the fiberglass over the corner and like completely waterproof the whole seal so that's why it goes all the way over the corner and then it also wraps into the door and then once a couple hours after I laid it up I did my usual so I cut off all the excess epoxy while the resin was still green which is like a couple hours into the Cure man I know I should speed this up but it is just so unbelievably satisfying [Music] foreign [Music] I went in with a flood coat of epoxy so a second coat to fill the weave of the fiberglass so like after that first coat it's still a little bit textured and I want to get it totally smooth so that I can sand it without digging into the weave and that'll leave the fiberglass invisible and the next morning it was time to skin the roof in aluminum so this is .04 clear anodized aluminum and uh this first piece I had to prep by putting on a piece like a connector for flexible conduit so that the wires could run out of the roof and into the tongue box so I fed those through and then we were really ready to skin are you ready are you ready I think I'm ready just like with a lot of other things on this project I started with construction adhesive but for the aluminum I was a little nervous the beads would actually show through the aluminum so I used a v-notch to travel to spread it out yeah and get my like really I feel like you can never have too much adhesive it's probably worth noting that the aluminum panels were cut to the distance between braces so all of the screws are going to go into the the studs and then the kind of weird order of operations here is that the two outer panels so like the back and the front panels went on first so the middle panel would go over both of them and the seams would be pointing down so like the best direction for water on both of those so that made installation a little bit tricky because you couldn't just like you know drag and scale it up but it should help with water runoff need more clamps okay Rocco can I have more clams sponsored by this was another instance also of I think that it was just too hot for the construction adhesive and it was drying too quickly I mean this was like absolute direct sunlight middle of summer in the desert so I'm not that surprised um but we were really fighting The Cure time on the adhesive [Music] next was this really fun adventure in trim routing aluminum which although is theoretically possible it gums up the blade a bunch and so the easiest way I found to do it is to actually find a second person to chase the blade with WD-40 and be like a human coolant spritzer if you don't have a second person I recommend doing what I did which is go to my friend Julia's house and hold her houseplant Reginald hostage until she would help me so or you could use an oscillating saw which worked a little better and then for this one I only had to stop every so often to add some WD-40 and pull the blade down and since it was easier with the aluminum skin I opted for the oscillating saw for the roof vent hole and the Stargazer window as well [Music] and with Reginald the succulent still being held hostage and definitely 100 alive at this point we got two sanding down the epoxy over the fiberglass so that we could varnish and I really wanted to get the varnish on before the trim goes on so that it'll be like nice and flat under the trim I'm using my usual favorite varnish which is Lust by bottle tote sorry total sorry uh forget it um no it I will point out because a lot of you guys use the products that I recommend um lust is not total boats photo toads most popular varnish it's gleam um because gleam is a little easier to use but I really love the like luster that you get from lust it's a little bit thicker and it's more Amber and so I think it just pops and it shines really really beautifully um so for this Julia is rolling it on vertically and then I am tipping it horizontally because we're in direct sunlight we actually didn't have time to roll on horizontally then roll vertically and then tip horizontally although that is probably how you should do it so we just went straight for the vertical rolls and then I was chasing with a badger hair brush and knocking all the bubbles and the roller marks out and because we were in direct sunlight we knew we couldn't get a final coat of varnish on but each coat was drying so quickly we built up three or four coats in like the middle of the day in the Heat and then the next day I gave it like a gentle sanding and then could go in for a single final coat that would be like that perfect no streaks no lumps coat and for the cabinet handles I made a single template and then used the same template on all four handles on the trim router for some reason I am like unreasonably excited to hang these cabinets I think I'm getting very tired of this project but this will feel like extremely visible progress and it's very low hanging so um there's a million other things I could be doing right now but I'm gonna hang some cabinets who needs doors when you have pretty cherry cabinets no one I don't think there's anything insightful I could say in the voice over here because I'm literally just putting screws in cabinet hinges except that I was so excited to put them in I'm gonna make you watch me do it anyway and then for the back wall of the kitchenette I opted for a matching Cherry veneer just to match the sidewalls and then interior it's just classy all right so I'd heard the skinning of the Galley Hatch kind of sucks um what I will say is that if you are doing your own Teardrop trailer skim The Galley hutch on a weekend when a bunch of your friends can come over and help because the more hands the easier it is I don't know what it is it's just like it's just lots of annoying fiddly bits so we put this um piece of roofing aluminum that we bent to that angle around first and then put some glue over that and then we put the sheet of aluminum over that and then put the screws through both of those things and that worked really well it was just a pain like this whole process was a pain um but it was similar to the exterior in terms of it was Liquid Nails and then aluminum and screws and then on the top Edge where it meets the trailer we had to install one half of the hurricane hinge as well as we were putting the aluminum down so we just cut that down to length and then screwed it in and with this it was like the name of the game is Just sealant like we were putting sealant in absolutely everything we want to make sure that water can't get into any of the wood Beach and then the same thing for the hurricane hinge other half which goes onto the trailer so the two halves slide together um and you can't really see it here but actually on this piece it extends past the trailer by like three quarters of an inch on each side and that will help just direct rain away from the trailer and the last thing that the galley hedge needed was wide trim so I bent that around and then the latch installation wow the way this bends is incredibly satisfying yeah it's gonna open more wait oh okay sliding The Galley Hatch on is a definitely another one of those things that's like big team effort energy because it's like a big heavy unwieldy object and you have to get it straight down the hurricane hinge um and one of the problems we ran into is it probably wasn't perfectly straight um and so we used like a bunch of WD-40 and eventually we just hit it with a mallet until it was all the way seated and once it's in place it opens and closes really smoothly foreign a little cooler we also threw a final coat of varnish on and it did go better with actually with two people rolling and one person tipping one of the design choices I made that I was like really adamant about not skipping even as the deadline crawled closer and closer and More Everything became more and more unreasonable was this aluminum swoop I just think it adds like a kind of a modern and vintage twist to the overall shape um and I haven't seen a curved aluminum like scratch plate yet so I traced out those shapes and then cut them out with an angle grinder and then cleaned that up with a Dremel a little bit my original plan was actually I had that MDF template and I was going to trim route it but since trim routing just takes forever I just did a good job cutting it out with the angle grinder and then diverted with the Dremel and then it was just a matter of using a ton of liquid nails or construction adhesive and spreading it out so that you can see the beads and then throwing it on and I found that actually the 18 gauge electric nail gun worked pretty well on the aluminum so I threw some Nails in there as well next it was time to install the roof vent so I just placed it and then Center punched all the holes pre-drilled them and then put down a circumference of butyl tape and that will use this seal and then drilled it in or screwed it in thank you foreign this is called interior garnish trim in case your interior needs garnishing and while we're on the topic of interior garnishing I went ahead and cut some trim pieces for the curved corners oh look at that oh my God Perfection so for every win there's like a not win and we just opened up the gas strut uh packages and they don't they're not compatible so off to AutoZone or Pep Boys or something we're gonna get this done okay so the gas spring props that I ordered were wrong and then we got some at AutoZone and they also didn't work uh so now what are we gonna do so I've got gas Springs in the hatch of my car which are a little bit larger so we're gonna give those a try um so it's gonna get a lot heavier when I pop this bottom one out all right there you go there we go all right cool Mission successful ready that's what a trunk without gas spring props next it was time to put all of the trim on now that the varnish was good and the aluminum was on this was pretty easy it was just a matter of bending it to shape and then screwing it in and the important part is we we threw sealant in every screw hole and any overhanging trim was just easily knocked off with an angle grinder and what you're seeing here is the very slow and cinematic collapse of my tripod which led to this very beautiful pan but oh I'm you're also seeing me install the magnet latches for the cabinets all right I've made a decision that I really hope I won't regret because we are at like T minus two days I have not had a day off in three weeks I have this like support of this the center piece of the Skylight is this like really nice Ash that's actually left over from my base and I put it in there when I was building the whole structure like this was everything else is Pine but this one was Ash um but I'm staring at it and I like laid down in there and I looked out and I was like I don't think it needs that support it definitely doesn't need that support from a structural standpoint I'm just gonna cut it off like without thinking too hard about it and I'm just gonna do it and then I'm gonna trim the window and I'll make trimming the window a lot easier [Music] so I prepped the window edges a little bit and then went over to my piece of cherry cut off a piece resawed some pieces for trim and then cut them to shape and once they fit nicely I nailed them in and gave them two coats of varnish and man it clasped up the place so much and while I was at it I varnished the kitchen veneer as well to install the Stargazer Windows Skylight I started by putting a ring of butyl tape all the way around and the key with butyl tape is you just make sure that there's no gaps because it compresses really well and then forms a great seal so a full ring of butyl tape and then carefully placed the the piece of polycarbonate over that exactly where I wanted it to be and I pre-cut the top and bottom pieces of trim but I didn't cut the rounded sides because I wasn't entirely sure exactly where it would be so I installed the top piece and then bent the two side pieces went and cut them while Julia held the curve in place and then came back installed the side pieces and then I could go in and install the bottom piece [Music] foreign damn that one was super effective she used hammer it was effective so unfortunately the spot I picked to put the latch I arbitrarily picked really late at night well against the deadline and I of course picked the spot where it would interfere with the counter so um it's fine I just marked off the center and then I decided to just reuse the same shape from the cabinets by reusing that router template and so I took a little chunk out of the counters that the galley could close properly and then to mount the solar panel I just did some minor Surface Prep and actually used VHB which is very high Bond it's like an extremely sticky double-sided tape and that seems to be holding up just fine but uh if it falls off at some point I'll post on Instagram about it I also needed to wire up the roof vent when I was first running all the wiring I thought it was a good idea to run it externally but seeing the way that the roof vent goes in and was designed I really should have wired this before the roof went on but Tel Aviv you live and learn it will be wired on the exterior with the solar panel next I just wrapped up the interior wiring so I built this little outlet box that will like neatly house the USB ports and the 12 volt port and so I just wired it up did some basic cable management and installed that the aluminum trim comes with a Groove and also a PVC insert that covers all of the screws and keeps things like nice and watertight so I just went in and inserted that for the interior I needed a floor even though the mattress is going to be sitting on it and covering it most of the time so I waffled for a while and then opted for just this vinyl peel and stick floor tiles I didn't love the use of vinyl just because like it's not good for the environment and it's kind of cheap but it was a dollar a square foot so you know for the kitchenette area I had this cute idea where I wanted to embed a national parks map in epoxy so I stained that plywood blue glued the map down and then poured tabletop epoxy over all of that foreign custom windows are usually a pain but I saved a ton of time because I was able to model them and draft site ahead of time handily export those dxfs and then laser cut templates for the cutouts as well as the windows themselves and once I had my templates I jigsawed the loose shape and then trim added them to their final shape and what I did here was actually make the interior panel cut out just a bit smaller than the exterior hole so that the window could inset and have something to sit up against [Music] and then I just took the two door panels and glued them and screwed them together foreign one of the hardest parts of this project I think was actually bending the aluminum door trim to fit the outside of the door because instead of bending around something you have to bend into a curve uh and it was some pretty tight curves so what we ended up having to do is actually to heat the aluminum and use like frames to bend around and then just slowly work the aluminum go fit it against the door work the aluminum some more go fit it against the door once we figured out how to do it it was not so bad but also I was just getting like kind of burned out of the project by this point so it felt like an additional challenge but it's also really fun I will add if you are going to attempt this be really really careful because aluminum doesn't show you when it's hot the way that like steel does it doesn't glow and so you just like make sure that you're being super safe about it we then bent the t-shaped aluminum trim around the doors and went over to give it a test fit for the first time just to find out it uh it doesn't fit it does look very cool with the light favorite part about building teardrop trailers is when the door doesn't fit how you feeling okay it's the next morning um I finally got like full eight hours of sleep because I was like this I can't continue um and I'm gonna try to take 3 16 off the side of the doors re-trim them and then see if they fit so let's see so off came the trim and then I used a 3 16 rabbit bit so it cut 3 16 in from the edge all the way around I skipped the door hinge side because I think that was okay and then a flush trim bit after that to bring the whole thing down the 3 16. then that trim went back on I trimmed the trim and thank goodness it fit and a door that fits means it's allowed to have hinges okay it is 6 25 PM Thursday August 25th midnight marks the end of three weeks officially what's going on door's going on so we shimmed the door off the bottom and then Julia held it firmly in place while I attached the hinges to the trailer side [Music] foreign I really felt like I earned this peel then the last minute installation of door latches and it was time to push this trailer out of my driveway okay and in exchange for all their hours of incredible help all Piper Nico got was the privilege of the last peel you make the feel like look really smooth okay so I maybe lighted a little bit it was three weeks plus one day I I had one roll over a day where I had to install the windows and the tongue box but to install the windows all I did was uh pop rivets in the hinges to get those on and then just screw them on to the trailer and then for the latches it was a similar thing drilled holes on the window side installed rivets and then I can mount it with screws to the door and then it was just final details of things like gaskets on the doors I attached the tongue box and then I just had to install the wiring into the tongue box with the battery and just like that the trailer is ready to go all I had to do was move in and get ready to hit the road making the teardrop camper was an incredible experience and using draftsight allowed my vision to become a reality so a huge thank you to them for sponsoring this video [Music] every season lives outside a status quo Stop Believing meant to spend in our abilities [Music] [Music] there is nothing in between so baby we should start living now [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign

Channel: Xyla Foxlin

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Keywords: teardrop, trailer, teardrop trailer, rv, van, vanlife, camper, campervan, vintage, airstream

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Length: 42min 34sec (2554 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 30 2022