Fitting skylight to van - a project to do at LHS?

[Robert Morris]

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?

Thanks in anticipation of any replies,

Robert

[Adrian Godwin]

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.

[Peter "Sci" Turpin]

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.

[Lindsay Morrison]

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

On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Robert Morris <list-london...@r-morris.co.uk> wrote: