How to build your own Carbon Fiber Camper making your own Composite/Foam panels.

ebrabaek

Adventurer
Another handle is being created as the first one depicted above was to curvy....... Hmmmmmm..... :unsure: A new mold was created.....
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10 layers of 5.7 oz 2x2 twill and using the MAX Bond HTE which requires a post heat cure. Clamped together now curing @300 deg F for 1 hr.
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Now curing
 

ebrabaek

Adventurer
Mechanical degassing with a heat lamp. Please make sure you read the description underneath the vide as you can create a thermal runaway real fast by doing this.
 

ebrabaek

Adventurer
Out of the mold....
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Rough cut and sanded....
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Cut into shape and off course it needed a roof..... Another 10 layers of 5.7oz with MAX HTE. Sat the first piece down on it to bond the old with the new.....
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Cut and sanded in to rough shape......
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This piece fist aesthetically better than the other one. Enough for today....... Cheeeeeers.
 

ebrabaek

Adventurer
I really dig the shape of this handle.
After 220 dry, 600, 1200 and 2000 wet sanding.
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On the truck. This will work.
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This piece is now ready for top clear coat and then will be bonded to the door.
 

rruff

Explorer
Hello! I'm building under bed storage boxes right now and was wondering about your latches for the door. Brand and where you bought them, if you remember. Thanks!

Also, the town where I live is Ruidoso. Pretty much everybody is too lazy to pronounce it correctly, but it is phonetically correct, being Spanish for "noisy water". Ruadoso is fairly common and not too far, but Riadoso is more likely, devolving to Riadosa often. 🤪
 

ebrabaek

Adventurer
Hello! I'm building under bed storage boxes right now and was wondering about your latches for the door. Brand and where you bought them, if you remember. Thanks!

Also, the town where I live is Ruidoso. Pretty much everybody is too lazy to pronounce it correctly, but it is phonetically correct, being Spanish for "noisy water". Ruadoso is fairly common and not too far, but Riadoso is more likely, devolving to Riadosa often. 🤪
I know what you are going through as I spent almost 30 years in El Paso TX before we moved to Colorado in 2014.
Ruidoso was frequented by us and many great weekends were spent there......
We went west as the Sacramento and other rivers began drying up sadly and into the Gila and further north we went.

The latches I used are these.


I did buy the lockable version tho. So far so good with good adjustability.
 
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ebrabaek

Adventurer
Hello! I'm building under bed storage boxes right now and was wondering about your latches for the door. Brand and where you bought them, if you remember. Thanks!

Also, the town where I live is Ruidoso. Pretty much everybody is too lazy to pronounce it correctly, but it is phonetically correct, being Spanish for "noisy water". Ruadoso is fairly common and not too far, but Riadoso is more likely, devolving to Riadosa often. 🤪
Well...... For the better part of Sunday I have not been able to get any amazon links to work here. Go to amazon and search for compression trailer latch. The brand is WJSKDQ.....

2PCS Compression Latch Lock Powder Coated Zinc Alloy Adjustable Lever Hand Operated Flush Lever Marine Applicable Door Thickness: 0.04"-0.94" Grip Range​

 

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