Teardrops n Tiny Travel Trailers

google "kemlite " and look it over. Fiberglass reinforced panels with plywood or polyethelene cores. Attractive finishes on one or both sides in 4x8 and 4x10 sizes. No skinning no interior lining or finishing just cut and stand. Factory look without the sweat equity WHOO WHOO
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...here is another interesting source for panels...they can be ordered thru most sign and cabinet shops....
http://www.omegapanels.com/Index.asp

madjack wrote:...here is another interesting source for panels...they can be ordered thru most sign and cabinet shops....
http://www.omegapanels.com/Index.asp

Thats what we have here as well... a few companies make them...
Outers with aluminum, wood veneers and stainless and.....Interior with anything you basically desire....It took me quite a while to find these companies but now I have about a page full of different companies for some real goodies for a next tear....

Interesting for sure....

http://www.vanstyn.nl/

http://www.eurocon.fi/eindex.html

http://www.kerroslevy.net/

Classic Finn

I built my: sandwich floor, storage floor, shelves/cabinets, side walls, bulkheads out of FRP (Fiberglass Reinforced Plywood) It is the stuff thay make truck bodies out of (like Ryder trucks). The final product is great. Already finished inside and out. It also opened up the size constraints of normal plywood. I bought 3 sheets, 8'x8' and one sheet, 8'x25'. It is HORRABLE to work with. It cuts, routes and sands just like plywood (dulls blades quick) BUT the fiberglass gets everywhere. I worked with a resperatior and face shield. It was in the 90s when I was working with it and I itched for weeks. I would rather roll around in my attic insulation in the summer. I like the finished project. Would I use it again? I don't know. I had to run all wiring in the ceiling, not a problem, untill I wanted porch lights on the side walls and reading lights on the galley bulkhead. I had to carefully drill down into the endply it my light placement, scarry. Also any fasteners going thru the side walls had to be of finished quality and evenly spaced. Everything worked out. I'm not sorry that I used it. It is now pretty much indistructable, maybe even bear-proof. (Did I say that out loud?)

Gerdo wrote:BUT the fiberglass gets everywhere. I worked with a resperatior and face shield. It was in the 90s when I was working with it and I itched for weeks.

Boy I can attest to that as well. I used a laminate trimmer to trim the Filon on my trailer flush with the sides after I glued them on. I didn't even think about it and just had at it in a short sleeve shirt. I was itchy and coughing for days.

Bruce

...a couple of tips for those fiberglass itchies...coat exposed areas of skin with liquid dish soap before starting...when washing, use cold water as this will keep your pores closed and not allow the FG particles access...you can also make a paste out of old fasioned oats and wipe/wash down with that paste and cold water...learned these tricks when I was doing HVAC work many, mannnnnnny years ago....
madjack

This is an interesting forum on foam panels. Danny
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madjack wrote:...a couple of tips for those fiberglass itchies...coat exposed areas of skin with liquid dish soap before starting...when washing, use cold water as this will keep your pores closed and not allow the FG particles access...you can also make a paste out of old fasioned oats and wipe/wash down with that paste and cold water...learned these tricks when I was doing HVAC work many, mannnnnnny years ago....
madjack

Halfway through reading your post, I thought, "this guy has worked in some attics". LOL I made some extra bucks in high-school running ducts for air-conditioning in attics full of fiberglass insulation, and learned about the dish soap and the cold shower stuff, but never heard of the oats.

CD