Here's Humphrey..Now a trolly top..Finished!!

[McGuffin]

Well done Boyoh!

You've put in some great work in the past few days to bring it over the line.



Larry

[3nero]

Cheers Larry
Still no number plate light yet. I'm on the lookout for a Vw beetle light and my VW club has a big meet up this weekend at the same festival we are heading to so we are going to risk it for a biscuit getting there without one.
I do have a few biscuits to spare

[3nero]

Pics from the first testdrive today

Jasmin learning reverse... in a packed carpark



then a drive through town in traffic...



Finally, over the hills to see if the little car could



all seems go

heading off early tomorrow on a nice little 80 mile trip

[PKCSPT]

Have a good time and a safe trip

[3nero]

Well all back safely in mainly one piece..

a few pics form the weekend.

















notice the missing cupboard door...design flaw..it was left open dropping the hatch..but's that's the only damage after the wet and windy weekend

[3nero]

Humphrey made the news papers
Plus starred in a video on their site

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/video?vid=1.1783225

[aggie79]

Humphrey made the news papers
Plus starred in a video on their site

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/video?vid=1.1783225

Awesome teardrop. What a fun video. It looks like it was a fantastic gathering. Humphrey stole the show.

[3nero]

Thanks Aggie, it was great fun and helped to work out a few design flaws.

Well not much done since we came back, it the raining decade here.

But i made a start on the front box.

Base made and undersealed (lots more coats than in the pic)



And tried on for size, which also included test driving around the block and some sharp turns in reverse.



then i had to make a jig/template thingy to get the front curve..



Sides made up from 5 rebated piece to allow a good door stop.





Then assembled onto base



Then my last jigsaw gave up and i need it to cut the hole in the front of the trailer
So i'm a little bit stuck until i can beg borrow or steal another one

[3nero]

I finally got a jigsaw that kinda works
I needed to cut the bottom corners off so the box would clear the tow bar frame.

but when they where cut and the box placed on two mistakes where spotted



the first mistake was the height. I know how that happened, because of the rebated joins i had to add 10mm to all sides of each piece of the walls to allow for the overlaps when joined together. But the top and bottom have no rebates so didn't need the extra 10mm so making the box 20mm to high

The second was the curve didn't match. No idea why. the template fits perfect to the body and to the box wall but the wall was 12mm off in the center

So i had to disassemble it all and reshape the curve with a sander.
But after a few hours extra unwanted work i'm back on track.





The shelf will separate the box so the top half will be accessed from inside and the lower from outside. The cutout is to allow for a new design which will add an extra foot to the center of the mattress. Jasmins brother is a bit on the lanky side and would like to borrow the trailer sometime

[3nero]

Todays progress...







still fits

[3nero]

Today i made a redneck paddling pool and threw half a sheet of ply in it to soak for 3 hours.



While the sheet was soaking i had to find something else to do, so i made a chopping board to cover over the sink and give some extra counter space.



Then it was time to drain the pool.

I clamped the sheet at the top and used some weights to hold the curve down while i started with the screws.





It bent like stiff card around the 10 inch radius not a crack to be heard. Just have to give 24 hours to dry out now

[3nero]

Just realized it's been 1 year since I started Humphrey

I would like to thank everyone one on here for all the advice and ideas i may have stolen.

Also a big thanks to all those people who threw all that good wood into the local dumpsters

And a sorrowful goodbye to the following who will be missed



One cordless drill
One corded drill
Three jigsaws
One hammer
One electric staple gun
One orbital sander
One table saw
One dremmel plus countless bits
One finger nail
And a social life

And a please hang in there to one belt sander.
Please don't give up yet, just a few more days and you can go in peace

[Ron Dickey]

looks like you are now having the time of your life!!

nice pic's of the camp out..... that box on the front will not only help carry more you will find it will help a little with wind resistance.

in this shot you can see my box on my old trailer, it was quite a change in pulling when I put it in.

Ron

[3nero]

Cheers Ron
The campout was great fun. if you click any of the pics it will bring you to the rest of the album.

The front box is going to house the folding chairs the gas and the battery and sometime in the near future a folding table that will hook onto the side of the trailer.
Plus stuff like mucky boots and jack handles.

[3nero]

all dried out and test fitted again..



all out of glue again and its a bank holiday here so can't do much else until the shops re-open