savannals

Sometimes, I make fun things that have nothing to do with the van. I'm thinking I'll add them here as "side projects" in case you find them fun as well. If you don't, then scroll on by. Your regularly scheduled van updates will resume shortly.

Last fall, I rode my ebike to lunch and then had to figure out how to transport my leftovers back afterward. On the way home, as my hummus was swaying around in a plastic bag dangling from my handlebars, I decided that I really need a simple place to easily store small-to-medium things on the bike. I did some poking around for ready-made solutions, but didn't really find anything that quite fit what I was picturing.

So I ordered a wire basket, and spray-painted it with plastidip (kind of a rubbery coating), first in purple and then with a glittery-metallicky topcoat. And then it sat over the winter as I thought about how I wanted to do the bottom of the basket.

On the same IKEA trip where we bought stools for working inside the van, I also grabbed a pack of two plastic cutting boards, thinking the larger of the two would be about the right size for a platform in the bottom of the basket. And I was right! I just needed to cut off the handle end for a good fit.

Spring has sprung. Which is awesome! And it also means that we've had to do a lot of yard-work-type-stuff of late. I did manage a small projectlet in the van this weekend, though!

Back when we installed the seat swivels, we learned (by way of breaking both of them) that the covers over the seat belt buckle assemblies on each seat did not clear the base frame as the seat was rotated. Here's what they were covering. I assume that it's probably a good thing to keep this stuff covered, and probably for reasons beyond the aesthetic.

It turned out to be fairly easy and affordable to get replacement pieces for these, so I ordered new ones. But they still needed to be modified to cleanly move through the rotation path.