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Withnail posted:A friend of mine just bought this. I'm extremely jealous. Ah man, that is tits. Pop top stuff seems like the perfect happy medium between having to camp in something that's too small, or having to make a god drat RV your daily driver. I've been lusting over one of the converted pop-top 80s Toyota Vans for years, but they're so god drat hard to find for a reasonable price, and god help you if you ever need parts for them these days.
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Sorry: double post. So I have a 4x8 harbor freight utility trailer, and I want it to be all it can be, and also I'm sick of camping in the back of my Prius because my girlfriend gets claustrophobic. But I also have to sometimes use it to haul this to the desert:  Or my motorcycle, or a couch or loving whatever. so like, I want to make it into some kind of stupid teardrop/toyhauler, but it still needs to be light enough that my Prius can continue to tow it without auto-summoning someone from Toyota to hunt me down and shoot me in the face for being an idiot. Also, I have not a lot of money, but a lot of free time (am actor), and a lot of friends with welding equipment, and a city where people give away building materials on Craigslist all the time. So on a scale of sort of stupid to Real Stupid, how realistic is my Groverdrop aspiration?
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jonathan posted:Is that really your scooter because if so I'll pay you to be my friend and you can give up your dream of being a dumb gay actor I can do both, and yeah I built that with a friend over a couple of weekends for Wasteland Weekend, because I really wanted to be a Waterworld enthusiast in the desert. Zero VGS posted:If you want crazy-light and cheap, just get plywood for the floor, carpet over that, and for the walls/ceiling get a few 4x8 sheets of Coroplast: http://www.homedepot.com/p/Coroplast-48-in-x-96-in-x-0-157-in-White-Corrugated-Plastic-Sheet-CP4896S/205351385 Yeah, coroplast is definitely one of the more promising materials for this project. I'm gonna stick with the trailer I have because buying a second trailer seems kind of insane, and also straight LOL @ paying another 400 dollars to save 50 pounds. cakesmith handyman posted:There's a growing trend to build what are called "foamies", teardrops built with extruded polystyrene walls skinned with fabric, attached with wood glue and painted over with exterior latex. Embed wood inserts in the foam before skinning and you've got hard attachment points. I'd go that route as people have built 4x8s that are so trivially light you can easily unbolt and dismount the body from the frame with 2 minutes work. Yeah, I've been doing a lot of research into doing a foamie, and that might be the way to go, if those materials fall into my lap sooner than the others. I think my major concern is having it be tall enough to fit my scooter, but short enough that it won't kill my Prius trying to tow it on the freeway. I'm considering a clever folding design so it breaks down into a smallish package that fits in the Prius's airstream.
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wolrah posted:Do you need it to be a camper and haul the scooter at the same time? If not, you may have missed this line: Oh, I def want to have both at the same time, because usually when I'm hauling the scoot/jetskeeter/adv bike, I'm also going camping. Also because it makes it a much more interesting engineering challenge. quote:Basically you end up with what amounts to a camper shell for a utility trailer. Sup, hilariously underpowered buddy! We should collaborate on a teardrop thread, then! Chopsy fucked around with this message at 21:38 on Mar 28, 2017 |
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Zero VGS posted:One other thing, situate the blunt wall of the teardrop as close as you possibly can to the rear of the Prius and still be able to maneuver; it apparently makes a significant difference on drag: You are for sure my kind of efficiency nerd. Yeah, I'm def keeping a close eye on aerodynamics, and I have one possible design that folds down to a package that continues the Prius's lines, so it should fit in the airstream pretty well.
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Mar 29, 2017 06:04
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 Teardrop project commences!
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Astonishing Wang posted:Is that built onto the harbor freight folding 4x8? I'm about to buy one just to use as a trailer behind my wrangler - what do you think of it? We're actually building it freestanding but able to bolt to the ol HF when it's not in the back of the truck. The HF is cheap and decent, but when I have time I'm gonna weld all the joints because I poo poo you not there's like 40 lbs of crap Chinese bolts holding that thing together. Also def pack some good grease into those bearings asap. Edit: gonna start a thread when I can, got that fucker skinned w sheet aluminum and the floor in already. Chopsy fucked around with this message at 22:51 on Jun 1, 2017 |
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Update on my teardrop: Welded the whole frame from 1" and .5" square stock, got it bolted down to the harbor freight trailer, mounted some tiedown anchors so I can fit my street-legal jetski inside, and I'm ready to skin it with whatever I can get my hands on for free. I'm gonna skin it for reals later, but it's for Wasteland Weekend in a few weeks, so I'm doing it post apocalyptic style out of whatever scrap I can find, so it'll be the homeliest little shack ever for now--I'm anticipating maybe just skinning it with cardboard on site for maximum thrown-together hobo shack style. Already got a slightly cut-down futon mattress that fits perfectly inside, and so far it's still light enough to deadlift, which should suit my Prius towing vehicle just fine. 
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