We decided to lay up the fiberglass on the roof with it still on top of the camper shell.  Since we glued the roof together on the floor of the garage, there were a few places where it didn’t quite line up like we wanted.  With the roof in place, we put jacks inside the shell to push up the center, and weights on the edges to angle the roof inboard slightly to meet up with the sealing surface on the shell better.  Before we did anything though, we rolled out a sheet of plastic between the roof and the shell so they didn’t get glued together with epoxy!

We got quite a bit done, I was just too busy rolling out epoxy to take pictures of it. The camper spent the night outside for the first time.  We didn’t want to ruin the fresh glass by banging it around getting it back inside the shed.  This also puts it in a prime location for me to work on it all day today on my day off! How convenient!

We also made non-shell progress yesterday.  Since one of the main things I whine about when we go camping is the cold, we have plans to eventually install a nice propane heater in the camper. That means that I need to either build a DOT-approved propane locker, or find a way to mount a propane canister to the outside of the shell.  Since I hate the look of the exposed propane cans, I’m leaning heavily towards the locker idea.  Turns out we actually HAVE a 20 gallon propane tank (the one that I was looking at!) from who-knows-what.  It was just chillin’ under the patio because we’re the token redneck neighbors.

The above photo shows where I want to put the tank.  The problem is that the edge there is 13″ and the tank is 12″ in diameter.  It should fit, but I may need to build the locker inboard slightly, which could look really awkward. Further research will be done today!