I put up fiberglass insulation so that we could put the ceiling panel back up.

I had to make the hole a bit more oval shaped in order for it to work with our rounded ceiling.

Becky got this cool shot of me modifying the trim ring with the grinder.  By the time I finished reshaping the hole in the center I was pretty darn good at making a nice smooth arch.

You can pretty much keep your hand on the pipe now even with a very large fire burning in the stove.  I do not have any fear about the heat from the stove pipe starting a fire now and the cap for the stove outside is still the much smaller size.

I will have to clean the stove pipe more often due to the smaller diameter, but now that there are 2 insulating layers, I feel better about it.

I had put enough of the framing together to figure out exactly where the refrigerator was going to be located, so I set out to cut my first LARGE hole in the side of the bus.

I started out by drilling some pilot holes from the inside of the bus and then transferred the measurements I wanted to the outside.

I used the jig saw to cut out as much of the sheet metal as I could.  There was a metal brace toward the left had side that I had to cut around... 

That tool is so much fun to work with.  The jig saw could only cut through either the outside or the inside, but the Sawzall ripped right through both layers and everything in between.

I created a vent slot above the fridge that will eventually vent to the outside through the space where the upper windows are located now.

For the moment though, the refrigerator is venting into the bus, so we will not be hooking up the gas.

The final fit of the outside panel is perfect.  I ground down a couple of rivets to make the panel fit as flush as possible.  When we finish up the rest of the outside panels, we'll come back and seal them all at the same time.