Gosh darn I’ve been busy. Picked up a used, well loved truck cap yesterday for cheap, came off a 07 with a born on date of 2009, 24 years old! Thankfully it fit my 2 generation newer truck with some modifications to the rear glass. In fact, I had to disassemble the frame and rebuild the rear glass panel as the hinge, rivets have eventually fatigued and sagged.
I’ve always wanted to use a rivet gun, and now I have! It’s handy how the pop rivets draw the material together as tightened, that feature tightened up the hinge half to the frame considerably. The window glass itself was sagging on the top frame aluminum and the whole structure was slack, so I used some high quality caulking in place of the tired rubber seal and some clamps to bring the frame itself back together, using the glass itself as a bit of structure. I think I’ll run a strip of black matching scrap down the middle vertically and rivet it in to further support the sag right in the middle, make it look nice and not only rely on the caulk that’ll fatigue over time.
There was the cutest little field mouse that somehow made it into the bed of the truck and was hanging out with me. I should have left the game down so it could have gotten out overnight.. whoops.
Work cleaning, organizing continues and I’m up at 6:30am after had gone to bed early. I’d do well to go back to sleep and repair more of these sore muscles.
Really proud of myself for yesterday. Went into town and ran several errands alone, even went into the dealership and had my faulty tire stem replaced as I’ve been on the spare for the past week or two.
I also have a folding motorcycle carrier arriving that shouldn’t drag on the ground , which is helpful. Also, a 3rd party modem for my home internet as service has been kinda shitty lately as the provided modem has been overheating. I’ll be able to fall back to AT&T from T-Mobile as it’s dual SIM, very handy.
Anyway, enough writing for today. Waiting for the sun to come up, should make some decaf.
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