well i've received enough complaints about the terrible audio in my first camper tour
but i finally decided that i need to do it again so that's what this video is
we're gonna do another tour of my camper trailer i've made some significant changes
to it so i figured it was okay to make a new one trying to appease the masses and make
a new tour of the camper and hopefully this has better audio for you so as you can see the awning
is the same as before this is an awning that we bought off of amazon honestly it's pretty great
i know it's not as nice as those arv ones or i can't think of all the other brands right now
but there are some really nice ones out there we spent like 100 on this pretty inexpensive
and it's held up pretty well we've had to like replace some nuts because they wiggle off
down the road but besides that it's held up pretty good i wouldn't trust it in a heavy wind there was
one time last year that we were going through the badlands in south dakota and uh i was like
we're not setting up the awning it's gonna blow away in the middle of the night so i wouldn't
trust it in heavy winds but in some light winds it's fine it also keeps the rain out really well
i have these usb cafe lights up here it really kind of sets the mood at night
good ambiance get a little fire going play a little bit of tunes these really make it a nice
feel outside of the camper let's get over to the camper and i'll show you a little closer
kind of some of the changes we've made if you're curious about any of the parts
that i've used on the camper build i will try and add those in the description below
scroll through that see if you're fine you can find what you're looking for if you can't shoot me
a comment and i will respond asap to try and tell you which part i used for any part of the camper
or where i found something um one of those things i i've recently added is this little usb port
this powers our lights out here somebody could also charge their phone and it has the volt
meter it is waterproof in the sense that it has this little plug that i can add and cover it up
and that seals it up really well and that's that's worked out pretty well so far um it's nice to have
it to power these lights out here okay the biggest change i've made to the camper is the aluminum on
the outside so this stuff has been really great i have a video that i just put out last week
that kind of details how i put this on and why i did this basically the raptor liner that i had on
before started cracking so that wasn't working out i needed to do something different so i did this
i also added on aluminum trim here i got this from rec pro it's been great stuff as well
everything sealed up really well with butyl tape with silicone and then i also added silicone on
the outside let's head over inside and i'll kind of show you what's happening in there
okay now we're inside the camper and i also have made a couple of changes in here i added some trim
to this to make it look a little nicer this is just cheap pvc trim that i got from home depot
um it's really bendable i just nailed it in um with the finished nailer it worked really good
um it's not like the best product in the world but it's great i think for a camper like this
everything's gonna be getting dirty and kind of banged up pvc trim seemed like a good idea we
painted the whole thing again put some new primer down um the big thing that i've added here is the
bed up on top here this bed actually folds down from the wall so we can when we're done camping
we'll pull off the mattress and we will fold this up and i have a lock on the other side there
that kind of holds that that bed up and out of the way so if somebody didn't want to have the bed
at all they could just fold it up put it away no problem it's also it's great for our little boy to
to be up there and sleep but our dog can also sleep up here um we haven't really
tested that yet maybe tonight we will so that's something that has been really nice
it kind of frees up space for everyone we still plenty of space for our feet underneath um but
this is a good ad for our family i still have the lights that go on the outside here they are
so bright um you can see for a mile probably you they're very bright and you can see everything
outside your your camper at night with those lights we still have the lights inside as well
these are great they're not super bright they're dim enough that like you're not going to blind
everyone in the middle of the night um i added some new usb ports here we used to have different
ones and they were just kind of not holding up there very well they were from amazon these ones
are also from amazon but i like them better the only problem is they have really bright lights
on them so we've covered all that up with tape i'll probably paint them at some point
i've also added some hooks here to hang up our clothes at night so when we hop in strip
down you can hang up your clothes it's out of the way you're not like throwing it down by your feet
these doors are from vintage technologies uh frank over there has really helped us out with doors
i highly suggest checking him out if you're gonna buy doors for your camper they are expensive i
would buy them every time even for the cost just because i don't want to deal with any
leaks coming through or anything like that and they do a really good job with these doors
for the next build i'm also going to buy one of their doors for the back of my camper
for the galley and i think that's going to work even better than what i built we still have our
fan up here it's a 12 volt fan also from amazon this is a cheap fan it's still really great
it's a little loud and i might get a different one next time but for this build it's been great
our mattress this was a queen-size mattress and i cut i think three inches off of it off of the
side so it's a it's a queen size mattress minus three inches it's very comfortable in here it's
plenty big enough for my wife and i and often our boy sleeps in between us and there's still plenty
of room for all three of us in here it stays nice and warm in here during the winter we were down
in the grand canyon last fall and temperatures were in the 20s and we were toasty in here with
the vent and the fan on all the windows open it really stays nice in here that said it also stays
pretty cool if you can get that vent open and the fan on and you open up these windows you get
a good airflow in it and it feels real nice but it stays about as cool in here as it is outside
now that i've showed you that let's head around to the back galley and i'll kind of show you any
changes i've made back there all right for my galley i'm still using this hurricane hinge i
built the door myself it's just a three foot tall by four foot wide door the camper itself is five
feet wide eight feet long so we'll hop in here and i'll kind of show you i've got these turning
handles they lock so they're not gonna come open coming down the road i've painted everything in
here it still gets beat up and dirty just from going down the road and pans hitting things
so i need to figure out maybe a better system for that i think if i just get the right totes
and bins uh that that will help the problem there we've got our solar panel controller over here so
power comes in from the solar panel gets down to our battery this is just an agm battery eventually
i would like to get a lithium battery for us right now it works just fine i put these little mats
on all of the shelves these are just i got them at home depot they're liners for your toolbox
i've also added some little lights in here might not be able to see them right now just because
it's so bright outside but there are lights in here so there's a light for each shelf to light
up everything underneath it definitely would like to get a better system going back here and in the
future i won't do this type of door i'll probably buy a door from frank at vintage technologies
and his doors open and they go to the side okay before we look at the roof and the solar panels
i wanted to show you something on the trailer frame itself that i've changed since my last video
okay so when i first built this camper i used a frame a trailer frame that was from
workhorse trailers in ogden utah it was a utility trailer and the edge of it came up about this high
which is why i have my doors so high which i don't love
we have to use these little stools here in order to get out and not like
gouge our legs with the with the door frame next time i build one these doors will sit much lower
like the mattress will sit above where the door is and that way we don't like smash our legs as
we're coming out but i hated this trim this this edge metal edge piece that came up i really didn't
like it i didn't think it looked good so i cut it off and i had a welder come through and wrap
my my tongue for me so the tongue now it used to end right up here it now comes all the way back
and back to the fender so much stronger now since i took that edge off i needed to have some
some strength some shear strength on there so when we're going down a bumpy road it's not going to
like fall apart on me so that's a change i've made then i painted the whole trailer frame without the
camper with por 15 and then i added a top coat called por 15 top coat the camper is held on by
these metal plates on every corner of the trailer they're bolted through the frame and through the
camper itself it's super solid um the the nuts and bolts are locked on there really
well so it's not going to be coming off down the road okay let's head up to the roof before i get
to the roof just you can see the front here is actually this back black diamond plating
it's aluminum metal diamond plated i thought it looked a lot cooler and better and it also i
think will protect a little better when rocks fly up off the road if they fly up i think this will
protect it a little bit better than the normal painted aluminum so on the top i use painted
aluminum since it's a 5x8 trailer and my aluminum sheets were 4x8 i had to do a couple sideways
and that's why you see that seam right there it's covered up with flat aluminum trim it's sealed up
real tight no water is going to get in there ever i'm not too worried about that you see my vent fan
and then also back there is the solar panel all of my solar equipment is renegy minus the
battery the battery i just got at autozone or o'reilly and uh got 105 milliamp hour battery
it's a deep cycle marine battery um i built this roof rack myself i got this idea and a lot of the
ideas for this trailer from clint on the seeking adventure youtube channel he has a great video of
his trailer tour and it was one of the original trailers campers that inspired me to make my own
trailer and he builds his roof rack out of this same material it's called super strut or unistrut
and before i had these unistrut pieces that go along the outside and i had
just normal circle conduit going across that conduit i wasn't i didn't love it it was a
little too bendy and worried me a little bit so i put unistrut going across as well so that's those
originally i built this camper with the idea that i could take the camper off
and use the utility trailer i've since learned that that's not as easy as i thought it was going
to be and also i didn't love the look of how it looked with that functionality so i've decided
to just make this dedicated camper trailer and all of my camper builds from now on will be that way
the camper is going to be bolted down to the frame for all the future ones and this one's basically
on there solid i could take the bolts out and remove the camper if i needed to but i never will
before we sign off there's a few things that i wanted to share that i'm going to add to the
camper because uh i just needed to be just the hair better those few things one of them are
i'm going to put leveling jacks on here but i would like to have a jack on every corner
because one of the biggest pains is showing up to a campsite and having to level out your trailer
and put wood under the tires and jack the the tongue up and get it all leveled out i don't love
doing that so i would really like to have jacks on every corner that way it would make it really
easy to just get things all leveled out on top of that i also need to add some kind of table setup
right now we end up cooking on our tailgate of our truck and it's not ideal right now we have
these little fold out tables that are cloth and they're nice to eat your dinner on but they're
not good to cook on i need to find something that i can cook on that i can prep on that's something
i really need to add to our setup here i'm also really interested in adding a tongue box i've
looked at some that are pre-built some from harbor freight some on amazon i'm thinking about building
my own i have a bunch of scrap aluminum from this build that i think would look really good
for a tongue box so let me know what you think i should do there i know these camper trailers are
hot items right now a lot of people are building them a lot of people are buying them and i would
really love to see everyone else's trailer build so if you want to showcase your trailer build if
you have a video on youtube please link it down in the comments let's give each other tips for sure
let me know what i could change on this camper build how i could make it better also if you
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