Moving the door required making curved sides of the door to match the frame. One side took about two hours of hammering ,bending and heating , the other side ( the second one) took about 10 minutes . Luckily it happened that way round otherwise I would have been devastated.
This curved door tested me to the limit but the end result is better than I had hoped for. Success is a better drug than anything I think...the euphoric feeling is great. The door took all in all about three weeks of part time work but the end result......fantastic.
I wonder sometimes what sort of idiot purchases a bus for $40000.00 then sets about pulling it apart without prior experience.......an adventurous one I would think. Now I have moved the door I think it was well and truly worth it. A recently deceased friend worried about the project but just before he died he said " yep it is going to be good... " from him that was a good omen. Sadly he will not see the finished project unless there is an after life and who says there is not.
I do not care when I die....preferrably later rather than sooner but the one thing I do not want to die of is boredom. I see people ready to retire who have no plans or dreams.....how sad. I went out to tea the other night with four of my wifes friends and their husbands and we talked about retirement. One had golf ( how much can you play?) , one drove a truck and thought of nothing else , one had sold steel for a company all his life and one never said what he had planned ( could not really say what he had planned ). I don't think that I really fitted in.
After this bus is completed and I have used it I am going to converta 4WD truck to an offroad camper then go and see parts of this beautiful country that most people never see .
Enough for now.. see you later.......Sich.
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