(Hurry up U.S. Postal service!
)
Anyway, I now need a trailer to put the tear on, and following the discussions, I sense that the 1800# HF is the one best if one goes HF... Additional reading and topic searching now leads me to think that the TSC 5x8 trailer is the way to go, IF, and I repeat, IF one cannot or will not build the trailer him/her/itself.
(La Dee Dah, just driving around making deliveries: oh! Look! There's a TSC, I have time, let's go in and look!)
I showed the clerk at the checkout counter a picture of a tear, and he was very enthusiastic (KEWL DUDE!!! Like, AWESOME!!!) and practically dragged me to the service counter (leaving the register unattended...).
The guy there (a new manager) likewise went Gah-Gah Goo-Goo Drool Drool, and then related that he had seen these before, and wanted not only to help me with selecting a trailer, but wanted to watch/help in building it.
(Let's see, Joe, Red, a TSC employee, my lawyer, a State Trooper Vehicle Inspector, and the rest of the neighborhood does not know yet... Hey, I could sit back and be a project manager
and not get my hands dirty! NAH!, that would take away the fun..)
TSC Manager even wants to put up pictures in the store to encourage sales of trailers and parts!
Anyway, he typed on his dumb terminal a bit, wrote stuff down, made a phone call, then gave me the URL for Carry-On Trailers
(http://www.carry-ontrailer.com/.) He said to go to the website, get the 800 Customer Service #, and when I call, ask for the custom build people. He claimed that they would know what I mean when I tell them I was building my own teardrop trailer, and that they would work with me on exactly what I want of either the 5x8 or bigger trailers and that they would give me the special SKU number that TSC needs to order and bill out the trailer (including any options like electric brakes or spare tyre, or even my choice of fenders steel-strapped to the trailer for mounting later.)
Price? Yet to be determined, as steel prices have shot through the roof, and my trailer would be coming from Carry-On's Virginia or Georgia plant.
(WHOO HOO! Is there a class of member just above "Dreamer" that I can be promoted to just because I have plans on the way, and a trailer chassis selected? Maybe "Teardrop Committed"?)
My thanks to you all for sharing your experiences, and your encouragement; what a great forum this is! (Special THANKS to Mike for running it all!)
Only thing I did not like about my TSC experience is that the manager said I would get a Certificate of Origin, whilst the TSC catalog says I would get a Title for registration... I shall see when the order time comes - either would work in Ohio, as far as I know.
Thanks again People!!!!
(These emoticons are fun too!)
John Kirts aka kirtsjc
Cincinnati, OH
