Kermit

[dales133]

Love the front windows brian

[Vedette]

Thanks Dale
I always like the front windows in Camp-Inn trailers.
So being a car guy, I knew 1937 - 39 Chrysler products used a similar rear window configuration.
So I went looking!
We are going to sleep with our heads at the galley end in tis one, so we can look forward thru the split windows and up at the stars thru the Chev rear window which acts like a sky light.
Brian

[KCStudly]

Dale, the boat just rides on top. The cabin has its own fully molded roof that has a notch running around the edges for the boat gunwales to register over.

Vedette, I'm with capn, we are more interested in your creative process than you might think... and a lot less interested in football.

[Sheddie]

Vedette, I'm with capn, we are more interested in your creative process than you might think... and a lot less interested in football.

Me too

[Vedette]

Okay I missed one of the 3 games I was going to watch today, while I went out in the shop and welded for two hour!
But I am back on the couch now!
BUT I NEED HELP!
SOMEONE PLEASE STOP ME!!!
Yesterday, while reporting on my slow progress, I inadvertently described the hidden pockets I have created up front for my stabilizers to fold up into, as "Aeroplane Landing Gear Bays".
Well, I must have gone to bed with that on my mind, as I spent most of my sleepless night figuring out how to utilize a "hideaway headlight motor" (which I have in stock) to make a motorized retractable bay door to keep the underside of Kermit water tight and smooth as the belly of a plane?????
Thus, I woke up with another project that will just slow things down even more.
Please tell me I don't need this! And that I have just lost my mind even more than it has been misplaced???
Good Roads
Brian
Remember I want to go camping in this new toy in the Spring!!!..........2016!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[KCStudly]

You've lost your mind.

If all the motor does is close the door, you're crazy. What the Long EZ builders do is attach the door flap to the gear so that when the actuator retracts the gear the door comes closed with it... or extends with it. The gear bay is a sealed (more or less) pocket in the belly that the gear retracts up into, so all you would have to seal would be where the actuator shaft sticks thru from the inside.

The sane man would motorize the gear and the door, not just the door!

[Sheddie]

You've lost your mind.

If all the motor does is close the door, you're crazy.

The sane man would motorize the gear and the door, not just the door!

yes? Thats the sort of insane thing I would try to do as well

[Greg M]

You may be crazy, but it's my kind of crazy

[Vedette]

Okay, You three guys are of no help at all!
Yes the "manually activated" (cheap) stabilizers are in a sealed pocket already. This motorized door would be more cosmetic then anything. And only to be seen by ants and squirrels and such. Most of us are too old to get down that low to see them.
I was looking to be bailed out here, not egged on????
Brian

[noseoil]

Brian, as long as you're doing it, go big or go home! I think you should do what the low-riders do, set up a suspension system which will launch Kermit up & down rhythmically to some interesting tunes from the stereo. Heck, they already make all of the parts. That way you can have actuators on the doors & a suspension system which works with it.

Might be a good idea, but at least you can "sleep on it" to see how it works.....

[KCStudly]

Yeah, and it could double as a "Magic Fingers Bed". I'd put a quarter in the slot to see that.

[KCStudly]

Actually, on the gear doors, I've seen where one of the Long EZ builders just hinged the doors on either side of the recess and used a piece of screen door hinge connected between the two. When the spring was just the correct length the gear would hit the spring on closing and pull the doors shut; and after the gear pushed the doors open the spring would pop straight and hold the doors open. Pretty simple really (... just not compared to no doors at all, but we're way past that, right?...).

[Greg M]

Okay, You three guys are of no help at all!

You come to a group of addicts hoping to get clean, what do you expect?

[Vedette]

Okay, You three guys are of no help at all!

You come to a group of addicts hoping to get clean, what do you expect?

Have a nice day! Eh.
Brian
Going out to the shop to build the bays today.........No Doors!
Had a better sleep last night.

[S. Heisley]

I think this poor builder is getting razzed a bit.

Brian, could you use that headlight motor to raise and lower the galley hatch instead? That would be a "Wowser" that people would see and really appreciate.