look what followed me home...

[rowerwet]

free! just had to get one tire back on the bead, since it had been abandoned behind a muffler and brake shop they had a tire machine also, while the sidewalls are checked and weathered they worked to get it home. Last night the slave labor crew helped me strip it to the frame.
the cap and assorted scrap inside has added nicely to my scrap metal pile, which will follow me to the scrap yard soon...

[wagondude]

That's a nice pile of recycling that someone left for you. It's hard to believe that anyone would just abandon that much money while others are stealing AC units and wiring. That should give a nice boost to the build budget.

[rebapuck]

What sort of plans for it do you have floating around your head non-stop?

[rowerwet]

the former manager of the shop got the trailer delivered there by a scrap yard, he hack sawed the top off and then let it sit. then he was fired, and it sat over a year that way. the other stuff I'm not sure where it came from, but I'm not complaining. the assistant manager is my next door neighbor... gave him an old but still working air conditioner that I didn't need anymore

[working on it]

That topper looks to have two usable crank-out side windows...don't scrap them, they may help your build or someone else's later. I am still kicking myself for trading away my old '75 Chevy pickup, and the topper mounted on it. The guy wanted to leave it with me, he didn't want it, but my wife didn't want it laying around here either. A year later, I started my TTT build, and wished I had the topper (with windows, screen, associated hardware) laying around. I would've used it for sure. I'm thinking of making my own now, with extra added delay to completion, but would've designed the old topper windows into my plans from the start,if I had kept them.

[rowerwet]

I thought of that as I rolled it onto the scrap pile, while I like the idea, I would have to tint them for privacy/heat, and I like round cornered windows, not square, on a td. I would let them go to some one willing to pick them up... my next build will have wiley windows.
my td build in my mind will be "the long, long td" from my designs album, this trailer will donate it's nice torsion axle to it...
if I can get 5 lug hubs for it easily. I also love the design of the tongue jack, never seen one like it before.

[rowerwet]

while stripping the outer skin off i was wondering if I could find similar to skin a td, the skin is very thin, (.025"?) with a dimpled pattern, and glued directly to the 1/4" plywood skin underneath, unlike heavier sheet aluminum this stuff appears to take care of heat/cold movement with the textured pattern. The glue was still very stuck even though the trailer was built in the mid 80's. thanks to it's year or more outside topless all of the wood was rotten which made it easy to tear apart in just a few hours, the hardest part turned out to be ripping the osb deck off the frame. even though the corners and edges were rotten it took the back of my axe head to punch through and make the pieces smaller so I could rip them off with a spade.

[rowerwet]

some parts of this will absolutely end up in my td
I see the sink clipped onto the side of storm warning near the galley, the ice box looked good until I saw how the cheap plastic door was broken at the hinge, and that there is very little foam around the plastic
there is also a power center, I'm gonna have to check out how it operates to see if it is worth putting in my td
along with some 12v lights that I can put LED's in and use inside Storm Warning.
but this frame is going under this
the utility box that was on the trailer Storm Warning rides on again, as soon as I give it a shave with my sawz-all

[rebapuck]

That tongue jack is just like the one on my european Puck. Over there it's called a jockey wheel.

[rowerwet]

I love the way it can slide up and down to take up the slack, then after you tighten it, you use the regular style screw to raise the load.

[rowerwet]

found this tag inside a door, 1992 meteorite gvwr 1430, the axle is rated at 1600 minus tires and wheels, I almost swapped the TS trailer back to cargo duty and put this under the td, but that would require way to much modification to storm warning to be worth it now.
I found the axle is mounted in the middle of the frame, not right for a td, or a utility trailer, so I cut 14" off the back and will have to figure out how to support the front corners as the front 14" will be over the tongue. I usually have the answer to how to do something come to me while I'm doing something else unrelated (the joy of ADD)