Teardrops n Tiny Travel Trailers

by **Big DE** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 11:14 pm

Well thanks to hurricane IKE we had to re-skin our teardrop. We had our teardrop tucked up next to our house for the storm but when half of my carport collapsed a piece of flashing peppered the top and the side. When went to buy more tin the color didn't quite match so we decided a re-do was in order. So we stripped her to the bones and started all over.

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And before anyone asks no it is not going to be lavender :lol:

I didnt know I would need so many clippy's

I plan on starting on the interior tomorrow and hope to have it camp able in 2 to 3 weeks if the whole Tx title fiasco doesn't kill us :cry:

there are other pictures in our album.

We really hope to see all the TX tear droppers at Spinnernuts Guadalupe Gathering it is going to be a great weekend.

Big DE :thumbsup:

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by **Miriam C.** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 11:39 pm

Boy the lavender and white sure look beautiful together. :lol:

Sorry to hear you have to start over but think of all the changes you get to make. :thumbsup:

by **aggie79** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 8:06 am

Looking good (again), DE. I really like your design and the size of the teardrop.

I'm particularly interested in the way your hatch is inset from the sides. Can you say how you plan to do the vertical seals? Or are you going to build an interior rain gutter/channel like on a car hatch?

I can't wait to see your build. We aren't going to be able to make the next few gatherings, but I'm sure our paths will cross in the future.

by **planovet** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 8:58 am

I wish I had a shop that big to work in! :shock:

Nice job so far... :applause:

by **Big DE** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 10:17 am

Thanks everyone, I get more and more excited as it comes together.
Aggie I plan on using t molding as a door jam with weather stripping. and im going to put t molding on the hatch with weather stripping and see how that goes. :worship:

. We look forward to camping with you and hopefully you might be able to make it too Spinnernuts Guadalupe gathering in august.

Planovet That is my IN-laws shop we took our tear over there to keep it dry until we get it dried in. We took it over there last Tuesday and have worked on it everyday since.
Do you plan on coming to New Braunsfels in August?

we have several of us camping right on the river and would love to have more. :thumbsup:

Miriam there were a few things I did change and my wife did kind of like the lavender but if she ever wanted to camp with me it would have to go :lol:

Thanks Big DE

by **greg755** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 10:20 am

Wow that is going good. You are moving right along :thumbsup:

by **madprinter** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 6:25 pm

Looking good again Big DE. Your design really inspired me on my project.
Wish I could get mine to turn out half as nice. Hope your happyly camping soon.

by **john** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 9:37 pm

How do you adhere the aluminum skin? Glue? :thinking:

by **satch** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 10:01 pm

Bro, that's gonna be SWEET! :thumbsup:

by **Big DE** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 3:08 pm

John,
I went to a sign supply company and bought a couple tubes of 2 part epoxy designed to join steel and AL. it was like $37.00 a tube and I had to buy a special gun to use it and it cost $93.00. So now that I had the double meat double cheese of two part epoxy's I thought it was down hill from there :twisted:

I was wrong.after reading the SMDS I found out that it sets up in about 10 minutes. so buy the time I got ready to stick the second sheet of AL the epoxy was hardening up in the mixing tip rendering it useless. So I had to decide which were the most important seams to be glued and use it there. So for the rest of the trailer we used liquid nail construction. We had used it before and it was a real pain in the butt to get it off the frame when we stripped it. I did use a bead roller for all the seams and it overlapped each seam 1 inch. Then we used liquid nail on the inside gluing from behind. But if you ever happen to be coming thru Tx. on your way to a gathering and you see white AL sheet metal littering the highway just go ahead and pick it up and bring it to me ill be at the gathering. :rofl2:

Thanks Madprinter,Satch I hope to get more pics up this weekend

Big DE

by **Dewi** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 3:18 pm

Looking really good... I really like your frame, that is so cool!

Cheers, Dewi

by **Billy Onions** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 9:16 am

Certainly does look good.

Must have broke your heart stripping down to bare frame.

you don't happen to know what they call that 2 part epoxy do you?

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