Teardrops n Tiny Travel Trailers

by **GPW** » Tue Jul 30, 2013 12:22 pm

Second coat of the Green is on ! All the little touch ups ... Done !!! :dancing:

Only painting left is the Black nasty stuff on the bottom , a chore we dread , just cause’ it’s so Messy ... :frightened:

... onward to the inside ...
Living in the woods , there’s something already colonizing the FS ... what looked like a smudge turned out to be a gazillion tiny spheres... likely eggs of some sort .. No idea what will emerge ... :NC

Ps.. the Mudflaps just arrived ...

by **GPW** » Tue Jul 30, 2013 1:32 pm

Curious !!! A closer look .... anybody know what these are? Hope they don’t eat foam ... :frightened:

by **3nero** » Tue Jul 30, 2013 2:56 pm

GPW wrote:Curious !!! A closer look .... anybody know what these are? Hope they don’t eat foam ...

Butterfly eggs..or moth eggs. Something in the colour must be attracting them to lay on the trailer.

by **linuxmanxxx** » Tue Jul 30, 2013 3:26 pm

They are trained foamie assassins released by the rv industry.

by **GPW** » Tue Jul 30, 2013 4:51 pm

QUOTE: “ They are trained foamie assassins released by the rv industry.” ... No doubt eh ??? :twisted:

Figure once “they" find out about how Foamies' last compared to their “made to fall apart by design “ products , there will be a big lobby (lawyers) to discredit all Foamie trailers, maybe even get them banned altogether

... Vulture Capitalism ... :frightened:

“ Never underestimate the other guy’s GREED !!! “

3N, We do have a serious amount of butterflies around this year ... kinda’ Nice really !!! So we’ll let them stay ...

by **GPW** » Tue Jul 30, 2013 5:49 pm

Oops !!! Forgot about the AC hole “plug”

... so we took the foam piece that came out of it and covered it with the F#1 canvas with thinned TB2 using the art canvas fold to fully enclose the foam . Then made a plywood back for it , coincidentally from the cutout for the AC wall mount (nothing goes to waste eh ? ) Clamped it with the advanced Newton Clamp ... drying now ...

by **kudzu** » Tue Jul 30, 2013 6:00 pm

GPW wrote:Curious !!! A closer look .... anybody know what these are? Hope they don’t eat foam ...

Luna moth eggs?

by **bonnie** » Tue Jul 30, 2013 7:18 pm

GPW, wuoild you please give us the name and product number for your art board? I have googled and I'm not finding anything close to what you are talking about. :worship:

by **kudzu** » Tue Jul 30, 2013 8:13 pm

Is it this type of chipboard?
http://www.dickblick.com/products/all-p ... chipboard/

by **GPW** » Wed Jul 31, 2013 5:36 am

Sorry , there’s no name of identification on the chipboard we got ... just went to the Art store , checked out what they had ... I got the thinner chipboard for the walls , but will get some of the thicker board for the front liner .. The trick is to be SURE to saturate the board with some kind of waterproofing ... I thoroughly coated the back of mine with TB2 , and the front will be Grippered '... With the thicker board we’ll be using "the mix" to assure its longevity ... then painted over... It’s the lightest , thriftiest material I could think of that would give a smooth surface , and yet be durable ... cardboard like this has been used in the auto industry for many years and holds up pretty good , even in more adverse conditions than this will see...
Blick , that’s the stuff !!! :thumbsup:

Not a bad price either ...

You know , you can also glue fancy fabric over the chipboard for more decorative interior panels ... Just apply T2 on the board ... press on the fabric and that’s it ... the fabric inside stays nice and soft , no glue on the outside ... I can remember many “Kustom” van interiors we did with fabric over board .... NICE !!! If you want get real slick , you can glue vinyl or Naugahyde over the board, and end up with a product much like is used in the Auto industry ... We used to attach ours with cup washers and screws...

Just for a little lateral thinking , you can see why this material might make a good skin over foam , perhaps just painted ... no fabric :roll:

It is pretty strong .. stronger when coated with some kind of finish ... using poly , it becomes like Plastic once saturated ... very Tough !!! Just crumbs for thought ... :thinking:

There’s many things you can do to decorate your interior without adding a lot of extra weight ... or expense ... :beer:

Luna Moth... just had to look that up .... Nice !!! We’ll enjoy some of those ...

by **bonnie** » Wed Jul 31, 2013 6:44 am

Wonderful. Thanks!

by **GPW** » Wed Jul 31, 2013 8:29 am

Here’s the AC opening plug ... inside and out ... naturally weatherstripping foam will be stuffed in the top to seal it ... and here it is painted ... drying now ... we’ll use some little clips (like the temporary door catch) to keep it in place ...

Ps. that window looks pretty straight now ... :roll:

we’ll never tell ... :oops:

by **GPW** » Wed Jul 31, 2013 12:56 pm

Just finished putting the Gripper all over the framework inside ... I did Gripper over the chipboard and that worked just fine ... no lifting or buckling ... everything nice and smooth ... :thumbsup:

But those little foam bits are driving me CRAZY !!!

They just get into Everything , no matter how many times we’ve Hoovered’ the inside ... :twisted:

We’ll have to do a little touch up sanding and scraping to get the annoying little bits out of the primer (grrrr!!!) ... and , oh yes, lightening holes are really cool , but a real BEAR to paint ... :frightened:

by **GPW** » Wed Jul 31, 2013 4:43 pm

Latest pics ... the AC plug in the hole , and some inside shots ... You can see how nicely the Gripper worked over the chipboard around the windows ...