yeah good sunny June morning to y'all today I
cannot stop smiling I am so excited about today a lot is going on some big
changes on the way well mostly big changes for Miranda here
it is her time to shine like I have been mentioning in the last two videos you
will have you will notice that I had been removing certain decals from the
sides of Miranda here in preparation of of what's to come and you've also
probably seen my new logo floating around on coffee cups and a couple
t-shirts actually this logo was a redesign from back when I first got my
very first logo nearly five and a half years ago and I'll show you some of the
early logos and how they have changed throughout the years to show the newer
rigs that I've had so I'm really happy to go back to basics and and I feel like
this is a little more retro and again a big shout out to my my logo artist
scorpion agency.com Eric over there has been designing my logos since I started
YouTube pretty much and if you're looking for some logo work as well for
your channel or for your business or anything shoot on over to his website
scorpion agency comm more later but he's also setting up a brand new resource to
help our beers travelers and full-timers and that is office drift calm or you can
find anything from jobs work boondocking RV repair it is a new resource available
for us so check it out and bookmark office drift comm there will be more
updates and some new stuff coming on that website as well very soon as for
Miranda like I said scorpion agency designed this new logo and it's going to
incorporate and kind of mingle slide in with the rest of what's going on here
and not look overbearing okay not look like a rental RV not look like it's
forced or anything but to fit it in nicely without being too obvious I miss
being able to advertise the Chan on the road I am driving a mobile
billboard as you can see so I you know some people might call me a sellout and
say Eric you're too big in the head it's got absolutely nothing to do with that
I feel the opportunity to share my channel to share my work with people
that I meet on the road and I have lost some 30 to 50 new subscribers that I
used to gain every day by not advertising the channel so gonna head
over to FASTSIGNS here in Lacey Washington and we'll start with this
install so fast science also has this warehouse available and this is
important both when it gets cold and hot because you can't put the vinyl onto a
cold surface actually the first time I did it I had to park the RV in here
overnight and they had to heat it up to get it 270 degrees and the summer time
it can't be too hot to put the vinyl decals on because they will shrink
before you put them on and then that's that's bad so I have prepared all the
surfaces you know the logo that's gonna go on the side actually he's a my
installers working on it over here getting it all measured up to Center in
between the decals and the side window there and for the rear of the RV going
something a little different going with the perforated so we're gonna have a
white background and in the decal black but perforated kind of like kind of like
you see on the city buses where the windows are at so you can still see out
the windows we can't necessarily see in now I do not have a rear view mirror in
the RV so I don't use the bedroom window for looking out I use the camera and the
cameras but this way I'm d-o-t approved safe and nobody can complain or anything
and because of the size of the logo it did have to be broken up into two pieces
so the last bottom parts gonna go on there this is a much different type of
three and final that I've used in the past by the way it it could possibly be
easier to take off in the future years down down the road if we choose to
make some changes but for right now it's looking good I love that gloss black and
how it kind of fits in with the existing decals on the side really happy with how
that turned out you know with the gloss black we've got so much black I mean we
got the tinted windows throughout the tires could be glossy black if I use the
tire shine that decal and even the coachmen mirada right here is a gloss
black decal as well we need to change this this should be a cat this should be
Jax it'll say Cat Man Miranda or something I need to do that baby but I
just thought of that just now yeah but yeah I think this really ties the RV
together without screaming advertising but just make it look all complete yeah
my installers gonna do the same thing on the other side where the slides at and
then actually what that looks like and then we'll move on to a different one so
he's getting the perfil centered up there the reason why we're going with a
white background is because if I put my black decal on a black tinted window
you're not gonna see it at all so
all right so let's walk around it's all done it's even glossy Wow see how the
black trim that's the coach and we just looks stock it almost looks like it was
meant to be there from the factory that's what I was going for I'm really
happy with that once we get done here I'll show you what it looks like from
the inside but if you've ever been inside a transit bus or something and
you look out the window you can still see you just can't see in so matter of
fact maybe it would be good to get some perforated window covers for these since
they're like low and visible I don't know anyway next yeah hey let's get all
four sides right might as well up here I don't have the cap area to really put a
decal like I did in the class seat but we've got the brow of this massive
windshield see that dark brow up there it's about eight inches of brow you can
legally put text under there because it's not blocking your vision and you're
allowed to brow anyway I could legally put text here as well as this part of
the windshield isn't being used I didn't check on a few laws at least here in
Washington yeah you have the 8 inch up there and it's already dark black anyway
so we're going white nomadic fanatic across the top just like Yoda
let's take a peek out the window here we're at Walmart it pretty much just
looks like a normal window you have to get really really close to even see the
little circles there but no it did not cut off my ability to see out my back
window if I need to I love it and just like window tinting this is
gonna need some time to properly cure man I just love how good that looks
so sunshine for a couple days and then some rain perfect we're able to get hot
well get cold get some moisture I love that there I am
really pleased I will mention a lot of planning went into this I really really
wanted to make it fit the existing decals and everything so I mean but I'm
especially pleased at how the back looks cuz that just looks stock like that came
that way great advertising for the channel and now there'll be no doubt if
you see me somewhere in any state in the country you'll know it's me and I got
free stickers inside so give me a knock during normal hours like 10 a.m. to 8
p.m. only and you can meet Jax and say hi to us around the country for right
now we're gonna stay in the northwest and I'm meeting up with some friends and
I'm not gonna film for a whole day just gonna hang out so but I have one more
repair to make before we do that so let's let's jump into that real quick RV
repairs they are inevitable I do share them with you guys often times because I
like doing the repairs myself and making them stand up sturdier we all know that
RVs are put together very very cheaply it never ceases to amaze me what you
will find sometimes in these RVs they're just not built for full-time use and we
have to admit that and understand that as a full time RV or that they are not
going to be suitable and they are not going to stand the test of time but if
we make better fixes if we put a little ingenuity into this we can make things
better so I just went into like one of one of my two closets this morning to
grab a shirt and saw this disaster here hang on let me find the piece that
is supposed to be hanging all of my clothes up right now
there it is this tiny little piece of aluminum is supposed to hold clothes in
this closet not to mention screwed into a hollow
piece up here of ply of I think quarter-inch plywood to hold clothes
what four shirts maybe isn't four shirts gonna be too much for that
so we're gonna jerry-rigged this thing and make it work we're gonna I'm gonna
fix them both because I guarantee you this one is gonna have the same exact
problem it's gonna pull out by those tiny little screws in this tiny little
piece of aluminum rack let's go outside I went over to the big orange store here
and LaCie and got a 2-pack of metal closet pull sockets and I got some wood
I got a couple two by fours here and I got the closet pull it actually says
closet pole right on it so I am going to build these up the side so that these
have something more to grip into these will be bolted into the side wall that
way we're not going to be putting any of that pressure that hanging stuff on that
tiny little piece of plywood above the closet but instead it'll be built on a
sturdy rail centered on the sides of both closets like a normal home would
probably have these built in their normal closets so got everything I need
for about $32 to make sure that my two closets will never have this problem
again alrighty so outside I've got my four boards cut these are the side rails
I have already drilled and got my screws already put in ready to go right into
the side wall of the two closets inside okay the first two side wall supports
are in we are using the bottom of this closet as support not necessarily Sara
Lee the walls and definitely not going to be using the ceiling up here again
here are the screws they were using to bolt it into this flimsy ceiling to hold
closed which is ridiculous yeah we didn't quite come up to the top about a
quarter inch up there that's because they bought two two by fours and this is
about 49 inches forty-eight I need it four of them but
it's going to work because we're going to mount the poles next right the pole
holders right there on top also for the record I opted for the metal pole
holders not the plastic ones they sell for about two dollars cheaper just spend
two dollars more and get metal and make it work one time right there we go and
you can see being about a half an inch short on each top here didn't even
matter because you can't put these all the way to the top anyway you still got
to get the rod in there and you got to be able to have room for the hanger to
get up there so I got just enough room I'll go measure this length right here
cut my first pole put this in we'll start hanging some clothes
always wear eye protection blah blah blah there we go
that is about as sturdy a hanger rack as you can possibly get yes I lost about
what an inch and a half on both sides but it's well worth the sacrifice and I
added what about 8 ounces of wood to the entire or V after both sides if you're
terribly concerned about 8 ounces of wood to make this stuff worth and I
don't really know what else to say let's hang some clothes and see how it works
there we go I honestly don't think I could be any happier with how this
project turned out I have fixed to this so this problem will not ever happen in
the lifespan that I own this RV next since I have the wood and everything
before this one breaks as well and falls out of the ceiling I will do the same
thing of this closet and we'll be good to go sorry for the length of this video
it's just a lot going on but I'm feeling really good here now my ICU security
system all of a sudden the hard drive crashed after just less than a week of
having this this hard drive crashed on me it's a 3 terabyte that it comes with
it it stopped writing it has completely failed it's a piece of junk so I went
into Walmart and I opened up my security system I'm going to mount in this solid
state it's only a 500 gigabyte so probably won't get three months out of
it but I'm putting in a solid state hard drive there and I'm gonna make an
annotation in my security video I'm gonna leave a comment and pin it because
for traveling with vibrations you do not want a mechanical Drive so that is the
one thing that I overlooked and I realized here after my hard drive failed
is that you're either gonna want to find a system that has a solid-state drive or
you're gonna want to swap it out for a solid-state drive yourself you can get a
good deal and the cool part is the base does come with the screw holes that fit
the smaller hard drive so it's screwed and mounted in there correctly so they
knew people were gonna be making this upgrade because they probably put in a
really cheap hard drive to start with but I got a format this plug it back in
and hopefully it will be back to working order
alright system initialize it at least a power backup that's a
sign configuring network and hardness hasn't been formatted yeah no I want it
to be formatted though see hard drive setup will click format and format and
yes there's nothing on it you go ahead and do your thing
format succeed woohoo see over here there's a little Running Man we are
recording good to go ok man if every RV fix ended this well with that kind of
completion like yes I did it I'd be feeling pretty good on their own right I
would that's it so I'll catch up with you guys in a couple days
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