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Just finished my fish house

IdriveON12

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Its a 1950s camper. It was an absolute dump when I bought it. My dad and I gutted it. Replaced most of the frame and built from there. Removed and resealed all of the windows. Installed an Empire heater. Paneling a round camper was a challenge and I wouldnt do it again. The front is a futon that flips up and holds all of the electrical including the power converter and breakers. When its down it is a 43" wide bed. Its wired for 110 and 12v. The rear is a dinette that converts to a bunk. My favorite feature is the WIDE white wall tires.

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Looks nice! Please tell me you left the era-correct white walls on there. Love the swooping fender wells. Almost looks like a 57 Chevy! I'd love to see a full exterior picture, but if you don't want to I understand.

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Very nice job. Last fall I bought an older camper for deer hunting and was thinking of doing a conversion after I had to replace a fair amount of the rotton flooring. Decided against it because it was more than I could handle. Just ended up replacing the subfloor, flooring and sealed the roof.

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Very nice job. Last fall I bought an older camper for deer hunting and was thinking of doing a conversion after I had to replace a fair amount of the rotton flooring. Decided against it because it was more than I could handle. Just ended up replacing the subfloor, flooring and sealed the roof.

Sounds like what we did. The rot was alot worse then I expected but we removed all of it and replaced it with treated lumber. Then removed everything from the outside and resealed it.

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How far off the ice does it sit? I had a fish house that sat about 10" off the ice so I just made tubes that I would drop down to keep the draft out. I took 12" pvc pipe cut to length than 10" pvc inside of the 12" and used great stuff foam in between the pvc so I had unsulated sleeves worked pretty good.

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How far off the ice does it sit? I had a fish house that sat about 10" off the ice so I just made tubes that I would drop down to keep the draft out. I took 12" pvc pipe cut to length than 10" pvc inside of the 12" and used great stuff foam in between the pvc so I had unsulated sleeves worked pretty good.

Im about 16" off the ice right now. For this year it will have to do. I plan to drop it for next year. The insulated sleeves are a really good idea! Ill be including that.

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How far off the ice does it sit? I had a fish house that sat about 10" off the ice so I just made tubes that I would drop down to keep the draft out. I took 12" pvc pipe cut to length than 10" pvc inside of the 12" and used great stuff foam in between the pvc so I had unsulated sleeves worked pretty good.

Great idea. I think I'm going to use your idea for sleeves for my wheel house.

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great looking house. got the bug bad this year to do one, not sure if will find an old camper and redo or try build a drop down house from square one. guess will have to wait till next year tho, have to get some things done around the house first.

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After looking at the fine work you did, I wish I would have done something. Once I started re-doing rot in the floor, it wouldn't have been too much more work. Our deer hunting land is on the northwest side of Red Lake. I just would have to pull it around the lake to be in prime time ice fishing water and back to the deer shack for hunting season.

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After looking at the fine work you did, I wish I would have done something. Once I started re-doing rot in the floor, it wouldn't have been too much more work. Our deer hunting land is on the northwest side of Red Lake. I just would have to pull it around the lake to be in prime time ice fishing water and back to the deer shack for hunting season.

Thanks again for all the kind replies

Yeah, the floor and frame werent that bad to repair. Im a handy/maintenance/do a bit of everything man so I had all the tools and knowledge to do that. Paneling a round interior was a challenge. That was the part when I wondered if I wanted to to keep going. Once that was done, though, the wheels started turning again. Now I just gotta get it out and fish in it!!

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