Teardrops n Tiny Travel Trailers

We now have our doors framed in and we have built the hatch. I was surprised but the hatch didn't spring at all, thanks to you fellows instructions. I didn't take pictures of the skin on the hatch yet but I will take some and post them. Here is what the hatch looks like before the skin and you can see the door framed in.

Jim, Looking Good It should'nt take much longer to have it on the road.
Cheers
Paul

Very nice work

See, you worried for no reason. The hatch is no more difficult than any other part of the build when done correctly. Job well done, looks good Jim.

Have a good day.

Looking great there, Jim!

Jim , looks GREAT, and solid as a rock!......also seems to have plenty of storage space in galley. ..................Rob

Hatch looks great Jim!!!

...coming along nicely Jim...looks good to me ...........................................

Jim, looks great!!...and you are really blowin' and goin' on it...doesn't appear to be a problem to have this baby ready for camping this spring... Doug

Fellows, thanks for all the wonderful comments. I am dead serious when I say that it hadn't been for all the great information from the very helpful and friendly folks on this forum, I would have still been scratching my head on a bunch of things. Gage, you are right, my worry was in vain, it wasn't nearly as bad as I had imagined. We hope to have the aluminum on next week, Lord willing.

Lookin GREAT, Jim
Now all you gotta do is get registered for the redwoods gathering and you're all set.

Kevin A wrote:...........Now all you gotta do is get registered for the redwoods gathering and you're all set.

Nothing like nice SHORT maiden trip, hay???

Jim--that looks awesome. Like a tank!

But the springback you're talking about is after you put the hatch skin on, which I didn't see there.

Judging by that construction though, you ain't got nothing to worry about.

Ira, when I made the post, the skin was already on. We put the skin on after we took the pictures and it was late so we didn't take anymore pictures. We built the hatch using 1/4 inch spacers between the outside ribs and the hatch walls like Jack did. We used 3 inch screws through the hatch walls into the 1/4 inch spacers and into ribs while we built the rest of the hatch in place. We stapled the 1/8 inch Baltic Birch skin to the ribs and then put screws 4 or 5 inches on center into all the ribs. We used the Gorilla glue also. Our top and bottom spar is made out of 8/4 X 2" ash. I am probably driving some of you fellers nuts the way we are over building, but I was bad to over build in my career in homes and woodworking and it is a hard habit to break.

Kevin, we sure appreciate the invite but I don't think my ole bones could handle a trip quite that far. We sure would love to though. We can't wait to meet some of our fellow tear builders.

Okay--and I see you went back and edited your post!!!