Today’s housebus score: A decent, newish window AC unit, three milk crates, and almost a dozen 8-oz mason jars!

The window AC is a Frigidaire, and looks to be in really good shape! Aesthetically, at least. I still need to plug it in and make sure it works, and then find the specs online to see what kind of BTU I can expect out of it. As with all of my free finds, if it doesn’t work out, I can just pass it on.

The milk crates were something I’d only kindof been thinking about? Like, I know this conversion is already running the risk of looking like a white trash yard sale, so I’m not planning to use these for any kind of visible storage, BUT I did see this video on Will Prowse’s channel where he built a DIY LiFePo4 battery in a milk crate, and it certainly looks like they’ll come in handy!

And the jars, also, weren’t something I was seeking right now, but I know I want a bunch of them to mount under the kitchen cabinets for small dry-goods storage. Also, I might get into canning some stuff from time to time, who knows! Looks like they were used for candles recently, so they’ve got some cleaning to be done still.

And a little bit of progress on the floor today: With the starboard-rear quarter of the bus totally done and painted up, I was able to move the foam panels over and get into grinding and scraping rust off the port side. Scrape, grind, sweep, scrape, grind, sweep. Then I was able to hit it all with the rust-convertor spray paint, and now it gets to sit for a couple days while I figure out how to do the enamel coat — after the last attempt, I’m nearly out of the paint already, and also my roller has dried into a rigid, unusable sponge. I could try to use the roller, I suppose, but I wouldn’t get very far with the paint I have left. Gotta try again to contact the seller up in Vancouver who had three quarts, see if it’s still available.