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Jan 16, 2024 17:41:05 GMT
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Excellent work! What are the clasp type things you used for the engine cover, btw? There's a bunch of these things out there, These ones are not chrome but they're common spring loaded RV engine cover / doghouse clasps.
This truck was sold ( a few years ago) to a retired Harley rider couple and was last seen in the southern US states. I really liked it, but the chassis underneath was really too narrow for something this tall & wide. They don't make these narrow chassis RV trucks like this anymore. The current manufacturers have worked out that in order for a safer, more comfortable operation you want the widest track width chassis available. In low traffic, zero wind conditions it was fine. Pack it in a big group of 75mph semi trucks (huge lorrys) on a windy day, and I swear I thought we were gonna die hahahahaa It turned out good, saved another one and lived on to tell the tale  |
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kh97
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Jan 16, 2024 21:16:16 GMT
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I love how multifunctional you've made the RV
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Jan 23, 2024 21:50:20 GMT
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Thanks for that - enjoyed reading the thread.
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Jan 25, 2024 13:24:00 GMT
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Great build. One question that I may have missed the reason for -- why is the ramp slightly offset?
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glenanderson
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Jan 25, 2024 15:01:01 GMT
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Great build. One question that I may have missed the reason for -- why is the ramp slightly offset? I was going to ask the very same thing. The asymmetry is the kind of thing that makes my teeth itch...  |
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My worst worry about dying is my wife selling my stuff for what I told her it cost...
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I guess because of the lump at the left?  |
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jimi
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Jan 26, 2024 13:08:36 GMT
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If you look at the before pics there's a boxed in section on either side at the rear, looks like they are storage spaces accessed from the rear external hatches on either side. Looks like Paul has done away with one of them to give a bigger flat floor area and offset the new rear door to keep the other storage space.  |
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Black is not a colour ! .... Its the absence of colour
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Jan 26, 2024 13:36:19 GMT
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Love this, always looks like you have a great time
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Jan 30, 2024 14:20:39 GMT
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Thanks everyone! This was fun for sure. The offset door was because the box section on the left is in fact the top of the generator, accessed from the outside. That generator box was merely sheet metal, because it was under the bed when this was a normal camper. The generator was no simple task to move, so I worked around it. I made it stronger by boxing it in with 3/4 plywood so you could stand on it or put anything on top of it, really. The right side was a storage box, I had to delete that side to roll in with the machines, but could do nothing with that generator unless I wanted to add a bunch more time and money to move it. It was a cool thing, people loved it. I see them all the time for cheap and think "We could do another one of those"... and then I think "Nahhhh, one was enough" lol |
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