Overnighter Camper Trailer Build

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If it wasnt bad enuf having to do the turned up back end I want to know who talked me into these integrated blinds :mad:

I now have the interior ply for paneling but cant fit it until the blinds are completely finished. Then I can bury them in the walls for all eternity or at very least until I set fire to it. The plan was to create a couple of removable slots in the window frame so the blind could be bent slightly and redirected out of their slots for maintenance but the 5mm ply is too stiff so they will have to stay in there for good. That opens the problem of finish. I have some very handy (cheap) aluminium type dinner place mats from B&M or somewhere or other for the outside face and was thinking of a printed fabric for the inside. Cant get anything I like so I am at the very moment creating some watercolours of game birds to paste on the inside that will be suitably aged and distressed to look old and knackered.

Sall gone titsup until next week and then ill be back at work :rolleyes:

To keep myself busy I have taken to shaping the oak moulding for round the windows that'll be a bit like a thin architrave to frame t'oles. Once thats done I can cut up one of my old leather belts to hold the blinds up in a sort of hole and rivet type scenario. :confused:

To the toolbox router...................... :)
 
It’s like watching paint dry this.
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I’ll stick mi watercolours on when it’s gone off.
 
At 3mm the internal panelling is light enough for sure but will have to be well glued to the insulation to eliminate any warping. It is quite stiff being eucalyptus but I can see it bulging all over the place if and when sweaty bodies start scopping bodily fluids.

It’ll have to be bleedin light anorl due to me overdoing it a bit on the external skin. :oops:

I might need a JCB to pull it :(
 
Just out of interest, how much do you think the whole thing will weigh once finished. i.e. sprung weight?
Very interesting thread by the way. And some great work going on.
I have a huge box trailer and was/am thinking of doing summat with it too.
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(D1 included to give an idea of scale.) So big I regularly get asked if I want to sell it, (company no longer makes em) but I wonder about making it into a camper/van thing, or stripping it down and making it into a substantial car trailer. (Fortunately it has two F off thick axles with indespension units on.)
Looking forward to seeing the finished article!:):):)
 
Stanleysteamer said:
Just out of interest, how much do you think the whole thing will weigh once finished. i.e. sprung weight?
Very interesting thread by the way. And some great work going on.
I have a huge box trailer and was/am thinking of doing summat with it too.
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(D1 included to give an idea of scale.) So big I regularly get asked if I want to sell it, (company no longer makes em) but I wonder about making it into a camper/van thing, or stripping it down and making it into a substantial car trailer. (Fortunately it has two F off thick axles with indespension units on.)
Looking forward to seeing the finished article!:):):)
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I was trying to stay under a ton. Bloke that wanders past occasionally who used to build truck trailers recons one and a half when finished. :eek:
At the end of the day (as he says) everything is calculated from the tyres :confused:
As mine has Land Rover tyres that can be used for a 7.5t truck it should be safe enough and it’s then just down to the springs.

As it’s only ten by six foot it’s very heavy for its size. It’s also only around five feet tall inside so quite small indeed. This led me not to worry about weight too much but it’s getting evy
 
Bobsticle said:
I was trying to stay under a ton. Bloke that wanders past occasionally who used to build truck trailers recons one and a half when finished. :eek:
At the end of the day (as he says) everything is calculated from the tyres :confused:
As mine has Land Rover tyres that can be used for a 7.5t truck it should be safe enough and it’s then just down to the springs.
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That's great! Did you get him to give the new chassis the once over before you started on the body?;)
 
Having blown a router I’m having to adapt mi toolbox router table to take the new lump.

Twill be used as a thicknesser this time for the blind frames. ;)
 
Back on mi ed today, Its taken approximately ten hours to create the frame round window number 1. Mostly due to taking three by one oak and working it down to one and a half by a quarter inch then sinking a rabbet in it to take the 3mm ply.
It’s all glued up ready for a splodge of stain and a polish in the morning. Only three more to go :oops: I may even get the first interior panel fixed tomorrow. I can’t wait to do something that’s easy that makes me feel like I’m moving on with it :rolleyes:
 
A milestone on the mobile officers club :rolleyes:

I nipped over this morning to fit the first internal panel. :D:D:D:D:D

Removed the clamps on the first blind, slipped in the blind and blathered everything in glue before going boyzoyk with the brad gun.

I hate the aluminium window fame now :mad: May look into some bronze or copper foil to add an air of sophistication :oops:. Just on the inside you understand. :) Its the only thing to match an oxblood chesterfield ;). I even managed a quick splodge of wood sealer to stop me ruining the oak until polishing time comes round :)


Without burd.................................. blind down



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With burd...................................blind leading the blind



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Bobsticle said:
Other side done and on to the back angled bit. Still took me all day :(

It’s looking much bigger than I expected, and heavier :eek:

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Can't hold it in any longer.
Sorry Bob, but to me that axle looks very thin, which is why I asked you if that mate of yours who builds them for a living had looked at it.
Bearing in mind that my box trailer that I put up a pic of has twin axles which are tubes of much, much wider diameter.
I am not trying to worry you, needlessly.
I can crawl under my truck and measure mine and put pics up if you like.. Tis true that mine is designed to take a much bigger payload. But the rest of the chassis is no stronger than yours, in fact prolly far less.
Not that I am a structural engineer or anything, just used to kit cars that have F off huge chassis.

(I'll run away and stand in the corner now.):(:(:(:(:(
 
Stanleysteamer said:
Can't hold it in any longer.
Sorry Bob, but to me that axle looks very thin, which is why I asked you if that mate of yours who builds them for a living had looked at it.
Bearing in mind that my box trailer that I put up a pic of has twin axles which are tubes of much, much wider diameter.
I am not trying to worry you, needlessly.
I can crawl under my truck and measure mine and put pics up if you like.. Tis true that mine is designed to take a much bigger payload. But the rest of the chassis is no stronger than yours, in fact prolly far less.
Not that I am a structural engineer or anything, just used to kit cars that have F off huge chassis.

(I'll run away and stand in the corner now.):(:(:(:(:(
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Its solid. Not tube. Original 1957 brockhouse 15cwt.
 
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