Overnighter Camper Trailer Build

kermit_rr said:

good colour choice

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Its all I had

Bobsticle said:

Its all I had

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Looks good!

Started the bed today but I doubt I'll finish it coz I used one of the ply sheets for my genny box thinking I would pop round to the wood yard and pick one up any old time
Materials are thin on the ground now so I pleasured myself by making a dust pan. It weighs about three pounds but hey, when youve got a welder .
This evening I am cutting out bits of paper and attempting to create the angles and things for the pull out step.

Ammerin wood now

Oy loyks moy new dustpaan.

Still can’t get any materials

Ended up sharpening my chisels today. Things must be desperate.

My local builders merchants opens today. Click and collect

Bout time. I’d started using scraps up to make things ???

Bobsticle said:

My local builders merchants opens today. Click and collect

Bout time. I’d started using scraps up to make things ???

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Finished the tool box router table today but can’t raise this wood yard on the phone. I’ll have to pop round in the morning.

Managed a bit of boxhing this afternoon between other pressing (paying) jobs.

Two large vintage van jacks have also made an appearance so between finishing the bed and painting its underside I will mostly be inventing some ridiculously complicated retractable supports from their acme screw and miter gears. Why? Coz I’m awesome





Take no notice of the bracing. I have to stand this lot up against the wall to paint it so it’s just there to stop the joints from cracking while I man handle it.

Perhaps shouldn’t have used mi best oak for bracing

Sall I ad

Looking good Bobsticle!

One ruddy screw. Just one



And all hell brakes loose.



Sgoin under ere.



Ooo stabilisers 8(0)

Finally managed to get a tin of undercoat so flipped up the bed and glugged grey stuff all over it. Three coats should do the job then it’s onto a quest for half a gallon of Isoflex to finish it off.

Trying to find a local tin basher that’s open and bashing is also proving inconvenient.
I want to reproduce the five inch sill that bejewels Henry’s hem line so I need four lengths of aluminium bent.
It has been holding the job up to be honest as I can’t fix the floor down until I have fitted the sills.
I need four eight foot pieces bent at 1” x 5” x 2” so it’s not something I can do myself.

Yes at the moment people have spare time, but everywhere is closed. I am after some sheet folding over 1 m, also holding me up. Let your fingers do the walking,! Good luck.

Last coat of Isoflex this morning. That’s three coats of undercoat and three coats of Isoflex. I dare so much as vapour gets through to that plywood never mind water.

although I have lots of time at the moment I have been inundated with jobs to do for locals. I have fitted a pile of locks to neighbouring lockups and fitted a local garden with decking and a bar. My jobs have been suffering as a result. Almost time to permanently fit the bed on the chassis and create the sill, if I can get hold of one.

While continuously phoning round to get some ally sheet bent with no luck I finished work last night and had a right good moan about it to one of the engineers. Ang on he said, fetched out the body work supervisor who exclaimed, well we have a ten foot bender in the workshop
I’m taking a sheet into work and they will cut and bend it for me, no problem.
God luv em.

Come on Thursday I’ve got ally to bash

Stabiliser number one

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Going up



Hup.






hand wheel next

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Looking good there Mr Sticle