The Geek Crusher home http://geekcrusher.com/blog We are two sponteneous and adventurous entreprenuers on a journey to create freedom for us Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:38:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Internet? http://geekcrusher.com/blog/internet/ http://geekcrusher.com/blog/internet/#comments Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:38:46 +0000 The Geek Crushers: Andrea & Dave http://geekcrusher.com/blog/?p=36 Driving around a city while trying to located wireless internet hot spots is like going on a treasure hunt.

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Punk baby clothes

Soon we will resume progress on the Crusher. Until then, buy some baby clothes. :)

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Maiden voyage:

We took the Crusher on its maiden voyage. This was definitely worthy of its own post, but for the sake of saving time, I’m just squeezing it in here.

It was just a quick weekend trip. We went to the Sand Dunes. Dave bought a 4-wheeler and wanted to try it out. The Crusher is far from done, but we stuck a couch in there and brought a bunch of pillows, cushions, sleeping bags and blankets. We managed to sleep 4 people comfortably. The fridge we bought works. And we proved our insulation job to be more than effective. We bought a small heater. We only had to turn it on for a few minutes and the place was roasting.

As he so often does, Dave ended up hurting himself. He got in an accident on the 4-wheeler. He dislocated his shoulder. While he’s healing, construction on the truck has been temporarily put on hold.

Spending the weekend actually staying in the Crusher made me more excited than ever to finish it.

The Crusher on it’s first journey:

The Geek Crusher truck conversion

Dave is eating a guacamole chip:
Andrea Thornton & Dave Wall

Marley’s favorite spot:
Marley loves the fire

Dave’s new toy:
Dave and his new 4-wheeler

We can fit a lot in here:
We fit a lot of stuff in the truck

Marley in the truck

Company updates:

Business wise,  we’ve been busy. We are preparing to launch a new e-commerce store. We’re just days away from its launch. We were hoping to get it going December 1st so we could catch some of the Christmas shoppers, but we ran in to a few snags. I’ll post the link to the store once it is live.

We have also started our own line of clothing we will be selling on the site. We’ve been busy designing graphics, buying merchandise and screen printing like crazy. Once we get this project going smoothly we will resume work on the Crusher.

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Andrea and Dave halloween 2007

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Sheet metal to cover the door

Cutting the sheet metal to size

Cutting the metal

Punching holes

Hammering holes

Creating the window linings

Window lining

Metal lining for the double paned window

Metal door installed

Sealing the plexiglass window

Sliding pocket door

All doors installed

Finished the back doors

Inside the geek crusher

Finishing touches

Finished door

Special thanks to Thornton Plumbing and Heating for helping us out!

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I’ll start with the pics from the door and window construction. Dave made frames for the 2 back doors as well as the sliding door. We insulated them, made windows and then covered them with sheet metal.

Door and window construction:

wooden pocket door

Wood door and window

building a door from scratch

Sanding the window components

Building double pane the window

door creation

Installing the door

Window frame

windoe frame painting

Sanding the window parts

Dave through his window

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I was going through some of my pictures the other day and came across a bunch of pictures from when we had the bus. I thought i might as well post them here for fun.

1976 bluebird school bus

School bus conversion

Bus driving

Repairing the bus

School bus photo

Rearview mirror

Big reach

Bus driver Andrea

Get off the bus

The day we sold the bus

We didn't want to sell the bus

Last moments with the bus

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laminate flooring instructions

Laminate floor glue

Hardwood floors

Motorhome wood flooring

Flooring is installed

I am testing out the new floors.

Testing out the new mobile office floors

And even further testing the floors.

Further testing out the new floors

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