Teardrops n Tiny Travel Trailers

Posted: **Fri Oct 31, 2008 12:34 am**

Well I came to my senses and decided to ditch the 1/2" CDX deck and inner fender wells and rebuild it all out of 3/4" ACX. I never really liked the 1/2" and finally decided to do the rebuild. I will hopefully knock it all out this weekend. I am constructing it differently too. I'm running a single sheet down the middle and lap jointing small pieces on the frame/body extensions...

Pics:

More this weekend...

Posted: **Fri Oct 31, 2008 5:31 pm**

Nice!

Wish I had your skills!

Posted: **Sun Nov 02, 2008 11:55 pm**

Thanks Oni

The floor is glued, drilled and bolted, fender wells are glued and screwed. I also cut some foam out for the mattress. I'm going to use the foam shown and probably 1" of dense foam under it.

2" lap joint at the extensions:

First pocket holes! The Kreg jig works awesome...

That's it for this weekend... Hopefully I can get the other wall cut out this week...

:thumbsup:

Posted: **Mon Nov 03, 2008 1:10 am**

You were a busy boy! That is a good start

John

Posted: **Sun Nov 16, 2008 10:19 pm**

Made some good progress this weekend. The entire bulkhead/galley got mocked in place and i got the front bulkheads cut out as well. I threw the foam back in to check room... its quite roomy on the inside...

On to the pics:

The lower galley bulkhead sits in a routed slot on the bottom of the counter and in the floor deck:

I am making a few of changes on the fly but everything seems to be coming together...

More later......

Jess

Posted: **Sun Nov 16, 2008 11:43 pm**

WOW.....you're coming along pretty quickly. Nice job.

Posted: **Fri Nov 21, 2008 10:14 pm**

Major mockup work today. I got the rest of the 3/4 cut so i threw it all together...

It looks pretty close to the 3D model. Almost like I planned it that way

Looks small from the outside

There's enough room for my friend and both our kids in there comfortably. Not to sleep of course but for getting out of the weather to play cards or whatever the 4 of us fit fine...

Some more routing and predrilling all the holes this weekend and i should be ready to glue and screw the main parts together soon...

I'm excited to get this far...

Jess

Posted: **Sat Nov 22, 2008 6:54 am**

Looks great!

What is the height of your frame (bottom of frame to the ground)?

Posted: **Sat Nov 22, 2008 11:39 am**

Endo wrote:Looks great!

What is the height of your frame (bottom of frame to the ground)?

Thanks Endo-

23.5" @ bottom of main frame, 21.5" @ bottom of the tongue...

Posted: **Sun Nov 30, 2008 11:14 pm**

Wow! Gonna look really great when it is finished.

Posted: **Sat Dec 06, 2008 1:58 am**

Thanks Miriam

More progress. I have the entire skeleton glued and screwed now and I had a momentous occasion today. I cut a door out

Pretty excited about that. I rough cut the opening with the jig saw and then edge trimmed it with the router. I also love my Kreg jig too. makes framing go pretty quick. Laying down in there is really comfortable. There is a ton of room. I'm really happy with the interior dimensions. Those 1x2 roof spars were pretty flimsy so i tied them together with some diagonal braces and it stiffened them up a lot. I'm not worried about the roof flexing at all now.

Thanks for looking. I'm hoping to get some more done this weekend...

Posted: **Sat Dec 06, 2008 8:15 am**

That looks sweet. You be sure to add your album to the Hall of Fame, okay?

Mike...

Posted: **Sat Dec 06, 2008 8:46 am**

Looking good man.

You are zooming right along on these nice warmish early winter Idaho days we have been having. Almost the perfect building weather. Untill you have to put on paint, varnish, epoxy ets.

See you round the camp fire

Posted: **Sun Dec 07, 2008 12:26 am**

Torsional rigidity fears?:shock:

or a comfy place for the Glock. HK? :lol:

Awsome

Posted: **Sun Dec 07, 2008 4:55 am**

mikeschn wrote:That looks sweet. You be sure to add your album to the Hall of Fame, okay?

Mike...

Thanks Mike

I'll be sure to get all the pics organized and posted when its done...

Wolffarmer wrote:Looking good man.

You are zooming right along on these nice warmish early winter Idaho days we have been having. Almost the perfect building weather. Untill you have to put on paint, varnish, epoxy ets.

See you round the camp fire

Thanks Wolf - I'm really diggin this warm snowless winter we are having. Makes it easier to get some stuff done. Epoxy and paint will probably have to wait or i'll need a big a$$ heater for the garage

john wrote:Torsional rigidity fears?:shock:

or a comfy place for the Glock. HK?

Awsome

Thanks John - its a Springfield XD 9mm Sub Compact. The perfect carry weapon in my opinion

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