fiberglass tear drop ?
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crawldit
Adventurer
Check these guys out http://www.tnttt.com/viewforum.php?f=55&sid=b41dca392cce0cb8bc46de179e2cdaf6
Don't know if it's exactly what your are thinking, but these are "foamies". They use sheets of foam for the walls/ceilings, with some wood frame support. And then they cover them with cloth on the outside. There are some pretty cool builds on there. I've been thinking about taking the metal skins off of my truck camper and rebuilding it in this fashion.
Don't know if it's exactly what your are thinking, but these are "foamies". They use sheets of foam for the walls/ceilings, with some wood frame support. And then they cover them with cloth on the outside. There are some pretty cool builds on there. I've been thinking about taking the metal skins off of my truck camper and rebuilding it in this fashion.
http://www.tnttt.com/viewtopic.php?....php?t=24959&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
kinda like the 2nd picture on saw tooths tear
kinda like the 2nd picture on saw tooths tear
225
Village Idiot
I am doing like they do shrimp boats here in Louisiana. They build a wooden house on a fiberglass hull, then coat it in fiberglass, then paint it.
I'm gonna build the box on mine, wrap it in fiberglass, then cover that with Durabak bed liner. You have to put some kind of coating on the raw fiberglass. Marine paint or something like that would work.
You could just build a wooden frame and stretch out cloth and then staple it to the wood, then start laying up fiberglass on that. It's the same principle they use when building speaker boxes. Works really well and really strong. Just gonna take a lot of layers to make it strong.
Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8cz_5eP81U
I'm gonna build the box on mine, wrap it in fiberglass, then cover that with Durabak bed liner. You have to put some kind of coating on the raw fiberglass. Marine paint or something like that would work.
You could just build a wooden frame and stretch out cloth and then staple it to the wood, then start laying up fiberglass on that. It's the same principle they use when building speaker boxes. Works really well and really strong. Just gonna take a lot of layers to make it strong.
Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8cz_5eP81U
Not what you're asking about but Nest Egg makes a fiberglass molded tear drop.: http://www.nesteggtrailers.com/index.shtml
Martinjmpr
Wiffleball Batter
Weirdest looking fiberglass teardrop trailer I've ever seen
Was this UFO-looking thing:
Saw it at the Walk the Winds Teardrop and Tiny Trailer gathering in Wyoming in August of last year. Very lightweight, his tow vehicle was a Scion XB.
Not sure who this was built buy, the guy who had it was out of Arizona and he said he bought it somewhere locally.
Was this UFO-looking thing:
Saw it at the Walk the Winds Teardrop and Tiny Trailer gathering in Wyoming in August of last year. Very lightweight, his tow vehicle was a Scion XB.
Not sure who this was built buy, the guy who had it was out of Arizona and he said he bought it somewhere locally.
stomperxj
Explorer
You could do like the speaker box crowd and do a skeletonized frame, then stretch fleece over it and coat it with resin and maybe one layer of fiberglass. I think that would be pretty strong.
Some google image inspiration: https://www.google.com/search?q=fle...DmiwKmi4CgCQ&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAg&biw=1920&bih=965
Some google image inspiration: https://www.google.com/search?q=fle...DmiwKmi4CgCQ&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAg&biw=1920&bih=965
Joanne
Adventurer
I think this might be a good approach. You could always add some additional lightweight glass cloth in key areas if you are concerned about strength or puncture resistence. Weight adds up fast on these builds so this might make for a lightweight build. It would be like a "foamy" build on steriods.
Joanne