Teardrops n Tiny Travel Trailers

In this build we are salvaging some old treasures. Some of the wood is from old cabinet shelves and other items that had been demolished. I will have a window on each side, one fixxed and one a slider for ventilation. The slider came from a 1971 Pace Arrow RV that was recently destroyed for scrap. The window will live on in our TTT. Was able to save a few more parts also, but the other windows were all broken before I could get them.

Nice score on the windows Roger and a great money saver!

Cliff

slowcowboy wrote:this is why I recomend buying a old cheap pop up trailer for your teardrop build and demolsishing it or scraping it out for parts.

for 100 bucks at what most these old popups sell for.

they are a gold mine of used cheap rv parts.

slow

I wish you could get a junker pop up for a hundred bucks around here slow. A pop that needs all new canvas and wheel bearings and shocks sells for $4-500 as a "fixer upper" A "nice" pop up in campable condition is a grand or more

<Chas>
in Silicon Valley CA

Oh, by the way i did make a big score in the pop up department. A friend called me the other day and was clearing out his grandfathers property. he gave me a 1971 starcraft pop up free of charge. He even delivered it. Has some great parts in it, just starting the teardown. This normally never happens to me.

Cool Roger just don't reuse the converter in it I did one time on a lil project and no longer have that project and the local FD drops in to check on us every so often! My neighbvor 2 doors down is one of them and he still teases me about it.

Cliff

Another thing to watch out for is pickup toppers. Got a pair of windows, and a hurricane hinge off of an old abandoned topper for free.

I was thinking about the hinge on the back of a truck canopy, so I went out and looked at the one I have on my truck. I have yet to see a finished teardrop up close and personal so I don't have any basis for comparison but that hinge seemed very flimsy to use for a galley. Has anyone used one? If it is in fact strong enough it would probably be easy to save a few bucks getting a hinge that way.

If the hinge you are referring to is a piano style hinge, water will run right through it. You will need to put a rubber cover over it to divert the water. Some people use a tire inner tube split open.
With that said, I prefer to use one of the proven galley hinges. This is the most troublesome spot on the trailer for water to get it. Save yourself future problems by using a good hinge. Also remember to extend the hinge over the sides of the trailer to divert water as well.

The hinge on every camper shell I have owned was a hurricane-style hinge.

Good source if that's what you're looking for.

The one I used was a hurricane hinge, but I did had to cut part off of the tailgate side as it was built to hold glass, I cut the glass channel part off. On #2, my hatch is lightwieght and only around 3 foot wide and only goes down to the galley shelf.