M416 lid hinge Pics please

[Mayne]

I would love to see how the folks who have mounted lids on their M416s worked out the hinges. I'm having a little trouble visualizing how that would work out on mine, and I was hoping someone could take a few close pics of the hinge set up that they worked out.

Thanks muchly

Mayne

 

[Jeepcrz]

I am about complete with my M416 lid build. I'll try to take a photo in the next day or so. I'll try to explain what I did. I purchased 1"x1" steel square tubing I think it was 16 gauge (thick enough to drill and tap a 1/4 28 screw) and I screwed it tightly up against the bottom surface of the round tube that goes around the perimeter of the tub. I used seven 1/4 28 screws, I drilled and tapped, then I put 4 hinges each 3" tall by 4" long and drilled and tapped into the 1"x1" tubing under the tube lip and then drilled holes thru for the lid.

I'll get pictures by Saturday morning of what I did.
Jeepcrz

 

[CodyLX450]

Id like to get some pics too for ideas before I head off to the local fab shop for my M100 lid.

 

[Desertdude]

I used a steel 1"X1" piano hinge - Riveted and welded on the ends

Close up

A few other photos here

 

[CodyLX450]

DD,

I notice you have metal bars on top of the lid that you mount the RTT to.

The lid itself seems pretty easy to have someone make a similar design for. How do you have the rack on top of the lid installed? In your Pismo pic, it looks like it may just be bolted onto the lid somehow?

 

[Desertdude]

I made small feet for it - its bolted down through the sheet steel into the 1" square tube frame - It can hold a bunch of weight ( I've carried logs on the tent mounts)

 

[CodyLX450]

Some questions about this pic...

Are the 2nd and 4th crossmembers (from Left to Right) closer together for the spacing on the "feet" for the top rack?

Is the bar inside of the tub attached still, and if so...reason?

 

[Desertdude]

the cross members where designed to hold the rack - the center one holds the slam latch in between it - the bar inside was there as a temp spreader

 

[Mayne]

Thanks for the replies and the pic's, there are some fabulous trailers floating around this site. I like what you did on the M1o1 Desertdude, I'd go that route too, but the tube stock on my M416 is round, that is what's kinda throwing me a curve ball.
Any ideas how I might be able to get around this?

Thanks again
Mayne

 

[Desertdude]

If your not to concerned about welding to it. You could take angle steel and create a flat edge over the top of the round tube. Welding all the corners and on the inside lower and outside edge.

 

[gpwpat]

That is what I did. top just rides on the trailer. for a hinge. however it needs to be locked on. or the gas springs will lift the hinge apart when closed.

 

[Desertdude]

...I should ad, I would then weld or rivet the piano hinge(if using one) to the flat angle

 

[Willman]

I am about complete with my M416 lid build. I'll try to take a photo in the next day or so. I'll try to explain what I did. I purchased 1"x1" steel square tubing I think it was 16 gauge (thick enough to drill and tap a 1/4 28 screw) and I screwed it tightly up against the bottom surface of the round tube that goes around the perimeter of the tub. I used seven 1/4 28 screws, I drilled and tapped, then I put 4 hinges each 3" tall by 4" long and drilled and tapped into the 1"x1" tubing under the tube lip and then drilled holes thru for the lid.

I'll get pictures by Saturday morning of what I did.
Jeepcrz

Welcome to the ExPo


BUMP for some pictures mate!

:chowtime:

 

[Mayne]

That's brilliant and simple.... Why I could conceptualize that, I'll never know.
Thanks so very much! I will run with that idea there, and maybe a removable hing pin settup. That way I can still haul work duty stuff in the trailer.

Thank you again,

Mayne

 

[Lawrence]

Here are some pics to a very nicely done one, tailgate and a lid. Not mine.

The complete build can be found at http://www.blackburnimagery.com/Trailer_cost.html