So, okay, I've been thinking of a building project for a while now, and suddenly here was this long weekend with no major plans, and so off to the shop I trundled.

By the end of Friday I had even fewer hairs (because I did a lot of head scratching), and I had this:


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Back down at the shop reasonably early Saturday morning, and the rain had let up enough so that I could confirm that Tab A and Slot B were, indeed, going to play well together:


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By and by (with less head-scratching, more doing, and a trip to the lumberyard thrown in there for good measure), we had this:


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and, by the time I gave up for the day, this, I think:


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Sunday I was there earlier still, and soon enough had this:


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Those windows are more than fifty years old.  They are all that remains of a little camp trailer I bought surplus from the State of Montana maybe fifteen years ago.  The poor old camper was beyond repair, but the windows still work beautifully, and I'm charmed by their retro, uhm, charm.

The white stuff is FRP (fiberglass reinforced plastic).  You're familiar with it—it's on the walls of many of the commercial bathrooms and/or kitchens you've ever seen.  We shall see how it holds up to time and UV exposure (and we'll see the same about the top covering, which is a surplus sheet of high-pressure laminate (a.k.a. Formica)).


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By the end of the day I was pretty much done.  Had a couple of odds and ends left to take care of, and today I did them and then spent a couple of hours cleaning up the shop, which looked like the whole crew had been there all week.  Got home in time for some decent light, and so dug out the good camera, and here's what became of the weekend:


Truck Cap

I'm beat.  Time to go back to work!