composite teardrop

[Chas]

Hello all. I work in composites, mostly small aircraft. I became intrigued with teardrop trailers and decided to see what I could do as a designer. I am nearing completion of an all composite trailer (well the tongue is steel) and it looks like it will weigh less than 300 pounds. I'm looking forward to the observations from this community. You may follow my progress at:
teardroplite.yolasites.com
I promise to post images soon here.
Chas

[Shadow Catcher]

I will definitely be looking forward to what you come up with

[steve smoot]

Welcome to the site, Chas.

I tried to look up teardroplite.yolasites.com , but no luck...

We do like pictures around here.

[glassice]

ken lots of luck we have been build them for a long time
We have a contract buyer30 uit. a year
now with TAB gone thats 14 fiberglass co that I know gone buy-buy in the last 5 years most wan't to pay little guy prices so watch your cost
look at tadpole was the latest

[glassice]

you might look at how your going to tie your axles I love to be the lawyer on that law suet

[eamarquardt]

now with TAB gone

What you talkin bout Willis?

??????

Gus

[glassice]

the last year for 2010 for tab and they shut down in09

[eamarquardt]

the last year for 2010 for tab and they shut down in09

Their web site is "alive and well" but their phone is disconnected. Well, I'll be a xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx(I'll leave others to fill in the blanks, ha).

I think I know who's next and from the "common sense" you write, I don't think it will be you.

Cheers,

Gus

[glassice]

If i did not have a contract i would not't even wast my time

[steve smoot]

would someone pass the Twinkes...

[hiker chick]

Welcome to T&TTT, Chas.

Always good to see an effort at innovation. Lighter would be great for those of us with 4-cyl engines.

The website worked fine for me:

http://teardroplite.yolasite.com/

[glassice]

I got a few e mails that I came down hard
for what is showed the big RV builders with $1,000,000 to spend on R&D cant make it work
compost fail different than ply wood you can see it hear it
Do you a have a x ray to see if its failing apart do you even know what a tap hammer is
What about liability ins if it falls apart. with a few changes it be a safe trailer
You get stuck if the builder has no Ins
We have a $5,000,000 just on are fenders
When you see someone try to sell there prototype before it built mean they have no cash no ins they need your deposit to finish so you will be the one to see if it wont fall apart and if it dose you get sued if it hurt some one
Will be taking deposit and we all know where that leads
It's thing they need to think about we do prototypes and I seen this show 100 s of times
All this can be work out

[Cliffmeister2000]

glassice, do you have a website or more information on what you build?

[glassice]

Cliffmeister2000 we did prototypes gov and contract work mostly repeat customers and haded to stay under 35 workers that opens a lot of small fed contracts . and a some drive in so haven been look for new jobs
I just sold most of my co all I did was paper work and fight with engineer
so now down to 5 workers finishing the last of a few contracts on the car side So after the first of the year will check with my lawyer and we what I can show
It's in most jobs no compete Claus so I cant even show a picture are say how i did it what sucks I even had a request to remove pic from here that they show to much the few thing that I may show now and then are thing I have done on the side
I have one worker that is trying to build a kit gashoper and a 32 5 window truck and I have to take his phone a way every morning he want to show pic real bad but the shots can get me in trouble

[spinnernut]

Cliffmeister2000 we did prototypes gov and contract work mostly repeat customers and haded to stay under 35 workers that opens a lot of small fed contracts . and a some drive in so haven been look for new jobs
I just sold most of my co all I did was paper work and fight with engineer
so now down to 5 workers finishing the last of a few contracts on the car side So after the first of the year will check with my lawyer and we what I can show
It's in most jobs no compete Claus so I cant even show a picture are say how i did it what sucks I even had a request to remove pic from here that they show to much the few thing that I may show now and then are thing I have done on the side
I have one worker that is trying to build a kit gashoper and a 32 5 window truck and I have to take his phone a way every morning he want to show pic real bad but the shots can get me in trouble

I don,t get it,How can someone thats going out of bussness, and getting sued has the right to tell sombody how to run a new bussness, much less how to build somthing