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Kodiak Buckaroo
Your whole project has been awesome, but that is to the 10th power. I can't wait to see photos of the truck next to the beach with the boards in their special slots (moments before you pull them out and hit the breaks) :sombrero:
@Adrifters - F550 Surf Camper Build - Adrift Motorhome
- Thread starter S2DM
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Door-saster finally coming to an end
Getting this doors to play nice with each other, close easily, leave enough room for mechanisms to pass by each other as it goes up and down, but keep them close enough to weather strip, hasn't been fun.
Doors are still really rough finish wise, but the mechanisms all work (finally!).
Getting this doors to play nice with each other, close easily, leave enough room for mechanisms to pass by each other as it goes up and down, but keep them close enough to weather strip, hasn't been fun.
Doors are still really rough finish wise, but the mechanisms all work (finally!).
Two doors each time. I did the handles such that you could open both doors with the top down. Wanted it that way so that you could open them both from the ground before you went up a ladder. We designed a pretty cool articulating door assembly that worked on sliders and opened as a single unit, but I felt like it might be great in concept but extremely difficult to execute. Particularly so given everything has a little flex to it.
The upper door has a magnetic catch assembly that allows it to be left open and the lower door has a rail handle on the inside that will let it be used as a hand rail when going up the stairs.
Finally got the articulating wall mechanism in, which should be that last mechanical system work prior to paint. Pretty excited this worked as well as it did.
Its a cable lift system, used 1/8" amsteel blue and quite a few pulley blocks and fairleads from harken. Also had to route out a channel in the roof to hide the front set of cables in a tube of 3/8 stainless.
The power comes from a worm gear winch which ultimately will be controlled by a variable speed 12v motor on a switch near the bed. Started really large.
Cut out two of the spools and used the space between the gear and the spool wall as a spool since I'm only collecting 12" of 1/8" line. Here it is installed.
And the whole system going back through the recessed tubing. Lifting a sledgehammer here to test it.
Its a cable lift system, used 1/8" amsteel blue and quite a few pulley blocks and fairleads from harken. Also had to route out a channel in the roof to hide the front set of cables in a tube of 3/8 stainless.
The power comes from a worm gear winch which ultimately will be controlled by a variable speed 12v motor on a switch near the bed. Started really large.
Cut out two of the spools and used the space between the gear and the spool wall as a spool since I'm only collecting 12" of 1/8" line. Here it is installed.
And the whole system going back through the recessed tubing. Lifting a sledgehammer here to test it.
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With the wall in place and up, the whole system looks like this.
The worm gear winch allows us to lower the articulating wall so in fair weathered campsites we can lower it down and be open air. We've planned a deployable bug screen for when we want the air but not the buggies. Here it is down. Heather likes it! It is set up to be able to lower all the way down, but 12" seems to be the right amount for routine use.
Here are two vids of the up and down. Ignore the sound, my compressor decided to run in the middle of both vids
Everything going up:
https://youtu.be/t6J6a4xUe6M
Articulating wall coming down by itself:
https://youtu.be/svZjXHDiO84
The worm gear winch allows us to lower the articulating wall so in fair weathered campsites we can lower it down and be open air. We've planned a deployable bug screen for when we want the air but not the buggies. Here it is down. Heather likes it! It is set up to be able to lower all the way down, but 12" seems to be the right amount for routine use.
Here are two vids of the up and down. Ignore the sound, my compressor decided to run in the middle of both vids
Everything going up:
https://youtu.be/t6J6a4xUe6M
Articulating wall coming down by itself:
https://youtu.be/svZjXHDiO84
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Mushin_Noshin
Adventurer
Ok, honestly, one of the coolest things that I have ever seen! Great work!
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Its gonna be a combo of relatively tight alignment and sealing with delrin/ptfe, brush seals and rubber flaps. I must confess that it's an area I still haven't totally sorted out how to handle. The articulating wall actually seals very well, I have a couple stainless profiles on the inside that catch the exposed edges and cover them. The lift mechanism has been a complete work in progress and sent me back to the drawing board a few times. I started with accuride sliders everywhere, but they weren't quite so well suited to this. I switched to a more rigid track and carriage system that holds things much tighter, and has allowed me to use more solid weather stripping.
VanIsle_Greg
I think I need a bigger truck!
Pretty cool setup, and seems to work very well. If there is ever an issue with the 12v motor you are going to install, will you still have access to run it with a drill like it appeared you did in the demo vid? You know, as a backup?
Slick build, really digging it.
Slick build, really digging it.
VanIsle_Greg
I think I need a bigger truck!
Ahh... good call. Backup systems are always a good idea. That was one of the things I was not very happy about with our last Tent Trailer... power/cable lift system with NO backup. The cable broke once too, as we were closing it up for a 7 day camping trip.
That sucked. 3 hours at the RV shop to get it sorted out.
Backup systems are good.
That sucked. 3 hours at the RV shop to get it sorted out.
Backup systems are good.
