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So today I happened to pick up some steel.. so I thought I'd have a little play

Cut some steel...


Put the pieces together...


Make it in to a frame...


Still ongoing More pics tomoz

I love the regard you had for the newly painted floor!

steptoe wrote:I love the regard you had for the newly painted floor!

Isnt that what workshop floors are for lol

I just hope they made the floor nice & flat haha

One place I worked at had a HUGE flat jig (like a big steel table but with threads tapped into it)) for fabbing chassis. Must've been bout 6'x15' & weighed a few ton!

I'm wondering if his wheel carrier bumper will end up on this instead of the "L"

Looking good and he has spare floor paint

TOONGA

Ready in time for Kalbarri ??

niterida wrote:Ready in time for Kalbarri ??

I hope so & I hope you guys do a report with lots of pics for us poor schmucks on the East Coast who think a BIG salmon is anything over 2kg

steptoe wrote:I love the regard you had for the newly painted floor!

Regard.. I give this paint the highest respect.. it is perfect and there is no damage to it. I highly recommend this flooring coating to anyone.

NachaLuva wrote:Isnt that what workshop floors are for lol

I just hope they made the floor nice & flat haha

One place I worked at had a HUGE flat jig (like a big steel table but with threads tapped into it)) for fabbing chassis. Must've been bout 6'x15' & weighed a few ton!

Yes it is and yep, perfectly flat

If I was doing this as a full time job, I would build a proper jig but for one offs, it's not really worth it.

TOONGA wrote:I'm wondering if his wheel carrier bumper will end up on this instead of the "L"

Why would I keep the cars spare wheels on the trailer

TOONGA wrote:Looking good and he has spare floor paint

Not required

niterida wrote:Ready in time for Kalbarri ??

I believe so, still have 5 days

NachaLuva wrote:I hope so & I hope you guys do a report with lots of pics for us poor schmucks on the East Coast who think a BIG salmon is anything over 2kg

There will be plenty of pics.. and as long as Wayneo puts us on the spots then you;ll have fish pics too

RSR 555 wrote:Still ongoing More pics tomoz

As promised.. but (sorry to use this word 'but') today I need to go hunting for material to cover the frame, as I probably wouldn't find to many places open over the next few days, I needed to hurry

I found a great salvage yard closeby and managed to find some stuff (pics to follow) and even found myself a good secondhand AC/DC Mig.. woohoo

After a getting a great deal on some steel and the mig, I thought I'd buy them some Christmas beer.. Then as I return, they offered me to stay and have Christmas drinks and a BBQ.. I couldn't say no to the offer

So today's update is nothing more than a dulux recon on the trailer.

Before...


After...

Well after a HUGE day yesterday, I thought I better get back into this trailer or we won't be taking it away with us. So today's effort was to build the slide out drawer.




Hopefully tomorrow, I can cover it in and put the hinge and locks on

Today's effort saw the fitting of runners for the drawer and cover the drawer but I found I'd made a small indiscretion on my measuring, so as I had a little visit from Jules (TOONGA), I thought this was a good opportunity to show him and introduce him to my new friends at the salvage yard and get them to fix up my measure once, cut twice method.




We also started t cover the whole frame, so more pics tomoz.. hopefully the final product... crossing fingers, toes, and anything else that might help

You guys aren't messing around knocking this trailer together. Looks good so far, can't wait to see it finished.

Cheers

Yep it was an interesting day, with lots of brainstorming about how to make things open and close. like Jaysons mouth

TOONGA

TOONGA wrote:Yep it was an interesting day, with lots of brainstorming about how to make things open and close. like Jaysons mouth

TOONGA

Oh God...

Looks good Paul, cant wait to see it in person!

Cool build. Will be lurking on this thread to see where it goes.

Rodeo4jake wrote:You guys aren't messing around knocking this trailer together. Looks good so far, can't wait to see it finished

Yes and no.. it's taking long than I want it to. Tomorrow is the last day to get it finished. Then it's off to Kalbarri

TOONGA wrote:Yep it was an interesting day, with lots of brainstorming about how to make things open and close.. like Jaysons mouth

I shall let him know.

taza wrote:Oh God...

Looks good Paul, cant wait to see it in person!

Yeah bro.. maybe in Kalbarri if you get up there.. with my CCs hehehe

60766244 wrote:Cool build. Will be lurking on this thread to see where it goes.

Should all be complete tomorrow and will update some pics once setup in Kalbarri

Today's effort was interupted with my 10 y.o. screaming that one of her back teeth was hurting when she ate or drank, so off to the Dentist to find out WTF is going on. Turns out one of her back chompers was cracked in half.. poor chicken

So after getting that sorted, I had another brainfart and need to get some of the covering cut, so back to the salvage yard.. I think I'm going to need to buy a house closer to it

Today's effort was to cover the frame and get on the trailer.. 1/2 a job done

cool:) Slowly taking shape and looking good...

Top effort Paul - it's very shiny, better watch out for Alex

How heavy is this all up? I'm guessing you've used light gauge material to keep the weight down?

I wish my projects moved along at this pace! Looking forward to some finished pics.

Also, probably a good idea to run a bead of silicone (of your choice) along all the seams to seal out water - and DUST! Will there be rubber strips on the lid and draw to help seal as well?

Cheers

Bennie

RSR 555 wrote:Yeah bro.. maybe in Kalbarri if you get up there.. with my CCs hehehe

Haha, I've already gone through 2 cartons in the past week of them

I'm heading back to Perth tomorrow so I won't see you up in Barri... Oh well, we can catchup and have a drink when your back in the big smoke
Still gotta discuss about my engine too, I'm still waiting on that email

El_Freddo wrote:I wish my projects moved along at this pace! Looking forward to some finished pics.

Yeah I know what you mean! Mine seem to take forever but when you work fulltime and have limited time/money and space of course it's going to take awhile...

Pics will be good Its really looking good Paul, when are you starting on mine lol

guyph_01 wrote:cool. Slowly taking shape and looking good...

Yep.. thanks

El_Freddo wrote:Top effort Paul - it's very shiny, better watch out for Alex

Thanks and wait till I have it behind the L Offroader.. then he'll sell that VW

El_Freddo wrote:How heavy is this all up? I'm guessing you've used light gauge material to keep the weight down?

The box is unknown at this stage but I will get it weighed at the local tip. The tent weighs 80kg so I'm thinking it will be around the 150kg total. I tried to make it strong as well as light, so it's 25x25x1.5 RHS and 2mm aluminium checker plate. If I was making it for just on road, I would use 25x25 angle and 1mm aluminium plate.

El_Freddo wrote:I wish my projects moved along at this pace! Looking forward to some finished pics.

This is the only project to go this quickly.. was due to leaving tomorrow with the fam to Kalbarri.. or we'd be all sleeping in the RV3 (30sec) tent.

El_Freddo wrote:Also, probably a good idea to run a bead of silicone (of your choice) along all the seams to seal out water - and DUST! Will there be rubber strips on the lid and draw to help seal as well?

We ran black mastic between the frame and the covering sheets and after this trip (on road only) it will get the single sided adhesive foam strips on the lid and drawer. Would have got it now but time got away from us

taza wrote:Haha, I've already gone through 2 cartons in the past week of them

Well I haven't seen them

taza wrote:I'm heading back to Perth tomorrow so I won't see you up in Barri... Oh well, we can catchup and have a drink when your back in the big smoke

No probs.. sounds like a good plan

taza wrote:Still gotta discuss about my engine too, I'm still waiting on that email

Bring CCs and we talk and yeah, sorry as you can see, been very busy

taza wrote:Pics will be good Its really looking good Paul, when are you starting on mine

More pics below and will take some more in Kalbarri