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Hi All,
I have had our hard floor camp trailer for a just on 12 months now, and hands down its the 2nd best camping accessory purchased to date (Prado #1)
its a Chinese import trailer dated 2011. I bought it 2nd hand in April of 2015.
when purchased It already had a small bit of stone chips, mainly along the draw bar.
I bit the bullet and re-painted the draw bar a weekend or 2 ago, then noticed the chips on the tool box, followed by the main body of the trailer.
now as most of these chips are not rusty in anyway or very little compared to others I can only assume theses are caused by my use.
so I repainted the whole trailer. what a sucky job, no nice undercover area, wind blowing and as much paint on myself as the trailer.
used a Satin Black for the draw bar and a gloss black with flattener added for the body as after painting the draw bar they then mentioned that they could not get the satin again for a number of weeks. (used almost a full liter)
Paint:
Before:
After:
so after deciding there is no way I'm going to do that every 12 months I looked into stone guards.
found a few varied styles from http://www.campertrailers.org/stone_guards.htm and decided on the simple style of Ron's Stone guard.
I liked that its easily removable by removing the ball, didn't look massive and could be easily fitted to other vehicles. doesn't impair access to the toolbox or reduce the turning circle. Its also simple to build and no where near the $500 price for retail products of similar design. There was little in the way of details on the build so I looked into it myself.
Measuered outside mudflap to outside madflap on the vodka cruiser and a length of 1900mm square hole section would be the go.
Finished Pics
Parts:
1900mm 30mm x 30mm x 2.5mm SHS
100mm x 200mm x 30mm ~2mm thick Angle
~4mm 900 x 600 Rubber (2x 600x450mm flaps)
3mm 30mm x 600mm Ally Strips (clamp the flaps in place)
10x M6x50mm nuts and bolts
20x M6 washers.
thanks to HERE I was able to get through some complicated math to get a max weight for the SHS. based on the length to center fixing a max weight of ~25kg at each tip of the SHS is possible without perminant deformation.
my 3kg worth of flaps and retainers will be heaps of room for the stress of bouncing on corrugations.
Assembly on page 2
I have had our hard floor camp trailer for a just on 12 months now, and hands down its the 2nd best camping accessory purchased to date (Prado #1)
its a Chinese import trailer dated 2011. I bought it 2nd hand in April of 2015.
when purchased It already had a small bit of stone chips, mainly along the draw bar.
I bit the bullet and re-painted the draw bar a weekend or 2 ago, then noticed the chips on the tool box, followed by the main body of the trailer.
now as most of these chips are not rusty in anyway or very little compared to others I can only assume theses are caused by my use.
so I repainted the whole trailer. what a sucky job, no nice undercover area, wind blowing and as much paint on myself as the trailer.
used a Satin Black for the draw bar and a gloss black with flattener added for the body as after painting the draw bar they then mentioned that they could not get the satin again for a number of weeks. (used almost a full liter)
Paint:
Before:
After:
so after deciding there is no way I'm going to do that every 12 months I looked into stone guards.
found a few varied styles from http://www.campertrailers.org/stone_guards.htm and decided on the simple style of Ron's Stone guard.
I liked that its easily removable by removing the ball, didn't look massive and could be easily fitted to other vehicles. doesn't impair access to the toolbox or reduce the turning circle. Its also simple to build and no where near the $500 price for retail products of similar design. There was little in the way of details on the build so I looked into it myself.
Measuered outside mudflap to outside madflap on the vodka cruiser and a length of 1900mm square hole section would be the go.
Finished Pics
Parts:
1900mm 30mm x 30mm x 2.5mm SHS
100mm x 200mm x 30mm ~2mm thick Angle
~4mm 900 x 600 Rubber (2x 600x450mm flaps)
3mm 30mm x 600mm Ally Strips (clamp the flaps in place)
10x M6x50mm nuts and bolts
20x M6 washers.
thanks to HERE I was able to get through some complicated math to get a max weight for the SHS. based on the length to center fixing a max weight of ~25kg at each tip of the SHS is possible without perminant deformation.
my 3kg worth of flaps and retainers will be heaps of room for the stress of bouncing on corrugations.
Assembly on page 2
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