A Little Help From Friends
In the end, Michael solved his seat conundrum by finding a couple who were willing to help. Soon enough, the couple came to help collect the removed seats from the school bus and took them to a scrap metal place. Michael Talley later said, “A nice man came with his 7 months pregnant wife and 8-year-old daughter to cart away all these seats to the scrap metal yard,” He also had some other help along the way, and said “Props to my stepdad for crawling under the bus and helping me remove every single bolt. If I did this again I would have used an angle grinder, but this was still only days into the build and I was terrified of power tools.”
A Little Help From Friends
The First Mistake
The next step was to remove the paneling from the ceiling of the bus. Since Michael had never even having heard of an impact drill, he said that having to get the panels off was “the absolute worst.” The next job was to remove the insulation that was underneath the panels. Michael lamented,“I wish that I had ended up keeping this insulation in. It was a in remarkably good shape and would have saved me a few headaches if I kept it in.”
The First Mistake