Lighting Choices

Imagine yourself enclosed in a space that measures 5 x 8 feet around and 4 feet high. It sounds slightly inhospitable, but this is what you're working with inside the Generic Benroy camper. When put that way, confinement seems cozy. This means that lighting is all the more important.

I had used swiveling aircraft-style reading lights in my previous build. This light below is very similar, if not identical. I placed one of these near each corner in the headliner near the cabinets and two more near the front in the headliner.

 I'm also considering this light style and installing two, rather than four, lights. Here's a photo below from Amazon:

I'll have to think about this one. The latter lighting unit would decrease wiring and installation by half, as I would install them in the ceiling near the front and rear of the cabin, down the center. I'd prefer LEDs here, but perhaps I could convert them somehow.

And in an unrelated note, I've put the second coat of polyurethane on the topside of the headliner this evening. That's ready for carving the cutouts for the vent/fan and whatever lights I finally choose. That gives me a deadline.

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Teardrop II Build: Headlinder Protection

I need to get a quick update in as the holidays fly by and suck up all the time. I've finished the headliner and have also applied a coat of polyurethane on the top surface. Yes, this area will be the inner surface of a sandwich involving polystyrene insulation and the outer skin, but you still want to get some kind of moisture protection on it.

Below, the sectional front curve is in place. It may not be a smooth single arc, but it's pretty in its own right.

The outside of the front headliner section, below. The double spars help secure this more easily and effectively.

Below, this topside of the headliner with the polyurethane applied.

The next step is another coat of polyurethane on the top and front outside of the headliner. It's not fun, but it'll do nothing but help in durability. Once that is done I'll work on cutouts for the fans and lighting prior to laying down the polystyrene insulation.

Here's to cold December nights working in the garage warming my hands on near the kerosene heater!

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