I'm researching fitting two skylight units to my van. One will be for
daylight purposes, the other used to allow a wood-burning stove to be
installed and have the flue pass through it.
I haven't been to the space for ages but did go a while back, and have been
on this list for ages. I am not (yet) a member, and this would be my first
hardware hacking project.
Questions I have:
Are there the right tools to cut through the steel roof of a van
reasonably cleanly and accurately?
Is there a way to get power out to the van whilst we're working on it? (ISTR
the space being quite some way from the car park/yard)
(more from a self-confidence point of view) Is anyone interested in giving
me a hand?
There's a compressed-air driven nibbler that would probably do it, and
may be an air saw. But I don't think there's enough cable to run the
compressor in the car park without being in the way of other tenants.
> I'm researching fitting two skylight units to my van. One will be for
> daylight purposes, the other used to allow a wood-burning stove to be
> installed and have the flue pass through it.
> I haven't been to the space for ages but did go a while back, and have been
> on this list for ages. I am not (yet) a member, and this would be my first
> hardware hacking project.
> Questions I have:
> Are there the right tools to cut through the steel roof of a van
> reasonably cleanly and accurately?
> Is there a way to get power out to the van whilst we're working on it? (ISTR
> the space being quite some way from the car park/yard)
> (more from a self-confidence point of view) Is anyone interested in giving
> me a hand?
IIRC someone who worked downstairs seemed to think they'd be okay parking a milkfloat under the balcony to charge it. Asking if you could swap parking spots for a day to run a lead down sounds eminently reasonable by comparison.
> There's a compressed-air driven nibbler that would probably do it, and
> may be an air saw. But I don't think there's enough cable to run the
> compressor in the car park without being in the way of other tenants.
> On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Robert Morris
> <list-london-hack-sp...@r-morris.co.uk> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I'm researching fitting two skylight units to my van. One will be for
>> daylight purposes, the other used to allow a wood-burning stove to be
>> installed and have the flue pass through it.
>> I haven't been to the space for ages but did go a while back, and have been
>> on this list for ages. I am not (yet) a member, and this would be my first
>> hardware hacking project.
>> Questions I have:
>> Are there the right tools to cut through the steel roof of a van
>> reasonably cleanly and accurately?
>> Is there a way to get power out to the van whilst we're working on it? (ISTR
>> the space being quite some way from the car park/yard)
>> (more from a self-confidence point of view) Is anyone interested in giving
>> me a hand?
i used to live in a van i kitted out myself, and found that a jig-saw with
a metal-cutting blade worked well for putting in my skylight and
woodburner. good luck! lindsay
> I'm researching fitting two skylight units to my van. One will be for
> daylight purposes, the other used to allow a wood-burning stove to be
> installed and have the flue pass through it.
> I haven't been to the space for ages but did go a while back, and have been
> on this list for ages. I am not (yet) a member, and this would be my first
> hardware hacking project.
> Questions I have:
> Are there the right tools to cut through the steel roof of a van
> reasonably cleanly and accurately?
> Is there a way to get power out to the van whilst we're working on it?
> (ISTR
> the space being quite some way from the car park/yard)
> (more from a self-confidence point of view) Is anyone interested in giving
> me a hand?
