Canvas covered "Tentdrop" trailer?

[ajricher]

Oilcloth, mate - oilcloth!

I drive an old Land-Rover - and its canvas top gets a beating from sun/rain/UV/whatever. What we typically do with them is lay them out on a HOT day and coat them with linseed oil. The heavy cotton duck will soak up the linseed oil, which when dry creates a waterproof cloth that used to be known as oilcloth.

A good cotton duck is essentially waterproof, but the oil helps a lot as well. I've never gotten soaked driving my 109 in anything up to and including hurricanes (through the Notch up near Stowe, VT a long time ago {shudder}).

Alan

[goldcoop]

Nic-

Vinyl Coated Nylon

http://tinyurl.com/ydtezje



Cheers,

Coop

[bobhenry]

This little motorcycle rig makes every gathering in 3 or 4 states.
Dale and Florence are real active with our group and others.









and just a youngster at 83

[Lawnjockey]

Back when I was a kid boats were made of wood, not plastic. The cabin tops were canvas painted with a product called "airball" if I recall correctly. The canvas was streched over the cabin top and stapled with monel or stainless staples where the trim would cover the staples. The excess canvas was trimmed, then painted with the airball. After it was dry the wood trim was installed using a bedding compound like Dolfinite. The wood trim was screwed down squeezing the bedding compound out. The excess bedding compound was then removed wiith a putty knife.

Jocko

[Nic]

Nic-

Vinyl Coated Nylon

http://tinyurl.com/ydtezje



Cheers,

Coop

THANKS! That site has a lot of stuff I'm wanting!

[quadworks]

Thats exactly what i'm doing i think.

[StPatron]

Welcome to the forum! How about making the hard front and rear hinged, so that they fold down while on the highway. You could stow the canvas underneath. I might have to make a fancy drawing...

Fancy Drawing:
<img src="http://i692.photobucket.com/albums/vv288/chorizon/foldytrailer.jpg" border="0" alt="foldy trailer">

Slick! Compact to tow and provides security for contents when parked.

[absolutsnwbrdr]

I'm planning on using marine vinyl from JoAnn fabrics