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2 hours ago, cobblers said:

Where I go camping requires a fairly capable 4WD vehicle for about 5 months of the year. 

Nobody else seems to care, but where and what's so brilliant about it? 😛

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Watching with interest. Have oft thought of doing a shed/barrel top detachable caravan effort on a flat bed as a work van/camper compromise vehicle with all my ideas being low cash homebrew. Will be great to see you do things properly. 

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5 hours ago, Rave said:

Nobody else seems to care, but where and what's so brilliant about it? 😛

It has been mentioned a few times before.

It is a beautiful place with very few others around to spoil it.

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Yeah, the camping place isn't owt too extreme - just a friendly farmer in a nice part of the world that lets me camp wherever. During winter it's pretty muddy most of the place,  so you need something capable or you'll end up stuck. I go for a night out most weeks, in order to stop my head exploding!

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Sure you're not related to bfg?This sort of construction project sounds right up his street!Looks good though,looking forward to seeing it finished.

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Regarding the narrower top, did you do some fancy angle stuff, or simply apply some bendinium?

How long is the box? You mention a bed, but it looks about 4' long. Are you vertically challenged, or do you have a better concept to the design than I do? :D :D

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8 hours ago, 808 Estate said:

Regarding the narrower top, did you do some fancy angle stuff, or simply apply some bendinium?

How long is the box? You mention a bed, but it looks about 4' long. Are you vertically challenged, or do you have a better concept to the design than I do? :D :D

Courtesy of Pinterest.

Had previously thought that the bed behind a "double cab" could take an 8' sheet but still has over 6'.

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Cobblers will this be fixed to the VW bed or removable? Crack on its going to be a winner 👍

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I would be cautious about the strength of those extrusion-system joints. I am not familiar with that particular aluminium system but have experienced failure of other such due to vibration fretting at the joint and it all going sloppy very quickly. Consider triangulation with bonded-in infill panels?

**I am inclined to be over-cautious about such things. Whatever, it is going to be an interesting project!

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On 23/12/2024 at 07:24, Tickman said:

It has been mentioned a few times before.

It is a beautiful place with very few others around to spoil it.

Basildon?  

Slip-on camper looks excellent!  Keen to see how it develops.  

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14 hours ago, 808 Estate said:

Regarding the narrower top, did you do some fancy angle stuff, or simply apply some bendinium?

How long is the box? You mention a bed, but it looks about 4' long. Are you vertically challenged, or do you have a better concept to the design than I do? :D :D

The extrusion is slightly tighter than a 90 degree bend, and it pulls out when you bolt it in to the corner castings (not sure if this is by design or not!), but that means you get a bit of wiggle room to do stuff like this. The bed is deceptive -  the same length as a standard mattress, and I'll be pinching an extra 300-400mm with the duck tail overhang

4 hours ago, andrew e said:

Cobblers will this be fixed to the VW bed or removable? Crack on its going to be a winner 👍

Removable - held on using the existing bed side hinge brackets, with a 80x20mm aluminium box section running between them. In the future I might make frame that slots in to this so I can jack the thing off the back of the van and drive the van out from underneath.

 

2 hours ago, Asimo said:

I would be cautious about the strength of those extrusion-system joints. I am not familiar with that particular aluminium system but have experienced failure of other such due to vibration fretting at the joint and it all going sloppy very quickly. Consider triangulation with bonded-in infill panels?

**I am inclined to be over-cautious about such things. Whatever, it is going to be an interesting project!

I hear you - it's fairly lightweight stuff. The panels I'll use are 25mm PU foam skinned with 1.5mm aluminium on the outside - they'll be bonded with sika 221 to the frame. I'm fairly confident it'll be significantly stronger than most coachbuilt motorhomes / caravans

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I know late on in the process, but did you consider an over cab as well? Maybe you could have a whole set of demountable bodies to suit each one of your purposes.

I wonder if you could even use some reclaimed refrigerated body panels ?

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Also amazing!

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There's a guy made a similar thing with a slim pop-top that goes right over the front cab. I don't really want the carryon of a pop-top, you get back into issues with damp canvases etc. 

 To have any usable space over the front of the van would make the thing too tall, really. With the big tyres and a lift it's already about 10" taller than a normal T25.

I'm not making any more of these... The extrusion is really bloody expensive, as are the panels! I've rang around locally to try and salvage some pf the panels from places that do accident repairs on box bodies etc, but no luck. The corner castings should have been £138 + VAT a piece (and I need 6) which nearly wrote the project off, but a regular customer of ours at work had some surplus ones they very kindly donated.

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8 hours ago, bangernomics said:

I know late on in the process, but did you consider an over cab as well? Maybe you could have a whole set of demountable bodies to suit each one of your purposes.

I wonder if you could even use some reclaimed refrigerated body panels ?

I have idly pondered that; ex-fridge van bodies are available in reasonable quantity from scrapped supermarket delivery vehicles and often quite cheap if you can collect. Money no object I'd have a Nordstar demountable but they're expensive new and hold their value, so the mingebag alternative is always of interest.

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