๐ข The Show & Tell Shell
The build, unfolding in pictures and timestamps โ filmed by the crew at Phoenix Gulch, transcribed by the ShellPIT, told by Terri. The full trail โ clips, transcripts, karaoke audio โ now lives in the ShellPIT (door open since 7/29).
Parts with a pulse
E-track for the kitchen trailer, the 650-lb shelving still in its box, a shop fan โ and in the corner, a keyboard and a speaker with wheels. The Open Source Orchestra cleared its throat before the first board was cut.
"Cut right on the line"
Sixteen clips from three long evenings: a grinder used as a saw (it smoked โ "we almost built a fire"), the near-miss with a metal sawhorse, and a father teaching the cut that finally came out smooth. The veggie coffin's floor and walls went up โ "glued and screwed" โ and the kitchen trailer got its e-track, tables, and burners.
51 feet of anchor
The northAmerican trailer โ the anchor of the whole camp layout, the wall the Himalayas shade flies from โ rolled into Phoenix Gulch and settled against the hills. The map in the playbook is now a place in the world.
The shower pods take shape
Two IBC totes, cage intact, exactly as designed: one with its top cut clean away, one with the doorway opening. Stacked open-to-open, these become the shower stall that stands on the troughs โ containment first, plumbing second.
David's spec, made real
From the hydraulic hose shop: a 2-inch orange suction line, cam-lock at the top, stepping down to a brass manifold with two ball valves โ exactly the fitting chain drawn up in the July syncs. The parts cascade is nearly complete.
"That's a shower right there"
Today. The trailer got Machinified โ transfer switch, panel and battery modes, 16 outlets, 30 amps on both sides โ and the full water loop ran: pump to kitchen, foot switch to greywater, float switches carrying water to the shower and back. Two float switches, one foot switch, zero spills.