I installed the latch yesterday (reminded by one of the pics) and I misjudged the amount of stud material needed to mount the latch. I needed a spacer anyway, so bondo-ed a block onto the inside of the door to act as spacer and latch mount.... came out decent.....
Looking at the different albums, I am very impressed with the amount of designing and effort people are putting into their tear drop trailers. Swing out mounts, lots of engineering going on around here.
In Joseph's album, the frame is prebuilt, and then skinned. How was the curved portion built? Strips of wood glued up together?.... came out nice.... I'ld like to be able to build mine in the living room, too, but Shirl said 'no'....
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by Joseph » Mon Sep 27, 2004 1:54 pm
arnereil wrote:In Joseph's album, the frame is prebuilt, and then skinned. How was the curved portion built?
The inner and outer skin is 3mm marine plywood. First the inner skin was forced into place against the roof stringers, clamped and glued. The outer skin was glued and scewed down until the glue set, then the screws removed. The aluminum skin went over the outer skin and is held in place by the screws in the edge molding. PL Premium Construction Adhesive was used throughout.
.... came out nice.... I'ld like to be able to build mine in the living room, too, but Shirl said 'no'....
Thanks! All you can do inside is make the individual pieces - sooner or later you have to move outside to assemble them, unless of course you have some really wide doors...
Joseph
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