Recent content by Cramshire

Great, I'll have a look at the tire pressure. It does seem like most of the suspension travel is tire deflection, maybe a bit less air would help. Thanks!

Hey thanks! And for the info on the Timbren. I reached out to them today, I have had a good experience with their support so far. I'll check out the other threads too. I do think the 3500HD may have been a better choice, but maybe they can help get it a bit less bouncy. Thanks!

Thanks! The battery was fun to build. The upper cabinets are mounted on 2"x1/8in aluminum angle that is glued to the panels with the Sikaflex 252. In the image below you can see the primer for the glue where the angles will go. There are 4 18in long pieces, 2 on the left side wall, one on the...

I can only attach 10 photos... One of my favorite features is the fireplace :-) I've had it out winter camping 2 times, once is was about 18F and this did great! It takes awhile to heat up, I think you would get more output from a Wabasto but it is so charming! Here is my battery build. It...

OK, here are some more pics! Here we are putting the roof on. Here the door and windows are in! You can see the little chamfer in the front to make it look a little less like a box. I had to have custom aluminum pieces bent to do those angles and glue the panels together, it came...

Yea it is too bad they are so expensive, and freight. The doors and windows too. It would be cool if some company could distribute panels in smaller sheets, and also have some kind of nice joining method.

Sure. At the time (May 2024) it was about $15/square foot for the 1.5mm skins on 1.5in foam, and $16/sf for 2mm skins on 1.5in foam. The extrusions were $250 per 20' length, this included the inner corner and outer. This was the most expensive part. The scrap adds up too, because you are...

They were from CPT, Composite panel technologies, https://www.cptpanels.com/. I liked the panels that Boreas sells https://www.boreascompositepanels.com but they don't really have a corner solution. CPT has some nice aluminum extrusions for attaching corners. It was a bit of a hassle to...

Thanks all for checking out this post! I found some time to add a bit more. Once the frame materials came in I started cutting and welding. I have a pretty big shop for work, with a nice horizontal bandsaw and some good welders, it was very nice to be able to use it for this. The frame went...

Hello! This is my first post here, and I'm not entirely sure how best to organize this. In April 2024, I really wanted to build a camp trailer for our family of 4, and had (misguided?) ideas of it being off-road capable. What I ended up with was a pretty great build for us, but there were...