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so tuck’s utility trailer is coming along nicely… here’s the decking going on… (gorilla glue and screws for the win note the glue and screw blocks that are bolted to the frame:
here we’re fitting the pressure treated vertical back piece and the back deck:
and here we’re cutting the side walls:
there’s a bit of a bow in the plywood:
but it should flatten out over time. here’s the side walls on the trailer:
those taillights turned out nice -stone so once the dew drop’s kitchen was painted, (for now, it’s getting a second coat) it was time to move on to the important stuff (to tuck, our host for this circus…) remember that little trailer i was hacking on last time? because while no one had led taillights in the 70′s… since the grommets fit, time to move on to paint… we used some of my battleship paint for it… and it looks great if i say so myself… looking good so far -stone so today was all about seeing things in the light of day, and shopping for paint and the little things… first stop was home depot, who was next to useless for what i had in mind… a quick consultation with my gps for “industrial paint” got me kelley moore, who had a 150 bucks a gallon preventative/primer/topcoat solution… ummm.. no. second hit was applied industrial technology in olympia, who had the hookup for me… rustoleum’s industrial paint division has a high abrasion resistant high performance 2 part epoxy paint that is designed to stand up to severe environments… this is the stuff you would paint the extruded steel walkways on your battleship with… it has an abrasion rating of 160 psi… so it comes as a gallon of paint and a gallon of hardener, making 2 gallons of product when you mix it together, and you have 2 hours to apply it. i figured the kitchen trailer i use in my inn was going to take probably 3 gallons total, and tucks trailer would be less than a gallon, so i bought 2 gallons of hardener and 2 gallons of paint, (grand total 221.44 + tax, ouch) in black of course (i will paint everything black until they make something darker here’s what the trailer looked like this morning, with the temporary lights on it, since we had to take it to get new shoes…: you can see a lot of the work that’s been done so far… and eagle eyed readers will notice that the trailer tires don’t match, and that one has a big bulge in it and the other one has a split in the tread… so, off to tire dogs in olympia we go… (absolute best place to pick up used tires cheap.. this trailer isn’t going to see enough miles to buy new ones right now…) the trailer is so light right now that even with argyle and myself standing on it, the leaf springs still hold the axle solid against the lower framerail (we may end up taking a leaf or two out of the spring packs). a side effect of this is that the trailer bounces around *a lot* whenever hit hits bumps in the road. so the first thing i did was add 15 lbs of air to one tire (it was flat) and let 20 out of the other one, and we ran them at 15 psi for the trip into town. enough air to keep them on the rims, but keep them as soft as we can get them. we had to do the same thing for the trip home to keep it from bouncing around so much. here it is with her new shoes: note that this is capital industrial’s parking lot, when we stopped to pick up the led lights for it… as you can see, the trailer has a very low, wide footprint, and the new (to tuck anyway) tires are a massive improvement over what was there… on the “still todo” list is: onward and upwards alternate title: recycling pirate for the win… so my buddy tuck had this pretty thrashed rv trailer that he acquired from somewhere (family i think) … anyway, as i’ve built a whole whack of trailers for eventing, merchanting, etc, he asked me… i didn’t have a whole lot of time to help with the demolition and so on, but tuck handled that in an expedient manner, leaving a frame: which the engineer in my head thought was a rather interesting design, in particular how the axle and suspension are laid out: and other than some bent bits: it looked pretty solid, so i chopped it up into little pieces: heh actually, what i am doing here is cutting off all of the outside floor supports, and bobbing the back of the trailer, because tuck’s truck, while competent, isn’t really going to be happy if this trailer gets loaded like a typical sca trailer… that and it doesn’t need to be all that big, because they don’t have all that much stuff, and the suspension, axles and brakes on this are not rated all that heavy. the back of the frame was bent, and while i was sorting out how to straighten it, i realized that it would have to be reinforced in order to prevent it from happening again, and, well, it wasn’t worth it… so off it comes: here’s the final product: okay, not really. so you can see that i did some hack n slash on the rear bumper with the angle grinder: and i left the bars on either side of the wheels intact… here you can see the bumper being welded together by my friend chris (thanks man, it’s appreciated) i bobbed the bumper so that it wasn’t a hazard (it stuck out way too far) and i felt it was entirely too flimsy the way it was. and it adds a bit of a road warrior look to it with a judicious use of bungee cords, 2×4′s and jack stands, the bumper gets welded on: this of course was made much easier by the trailer being upside down here’s the finished product: or maybe not: (i decided at the last minute it needed some bracing on the bumper… you know how it is the original trailer had a big bite out of the frame rail… (where the original sewer cleanout was): … trailer should be strong enough without us touching it, but the engineer in my head wanted to do something about it, so i cut and shaped a piece to fix it with: out of a piece i had cut off the trailer earlier, and had chris stick it where it goes: not a bad fit if i say so myself … especially when i did most of it with a 7″ angle grinder… chris then welded it down like we meant it: and while i can’t look at the arc, my phone can: next: dtm industrial paint, and a floor! |
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