from scratch Whale Tail

[truckasaurus]

I'm stripping down my trailer and the aft end caps are in worse shape than I thought, not yet a mega problem as I plan to English wheel them back to awesome but the hunt for a satisfactory English wheel gave me pause for thought…..which is always dangerous. (I'm not working in aviation anymore so all the industrial equipment is out of my grasp).

I started thinking about a back up plan and whether I could get paper templates from someone to whip up a shiny new Whale Tail from flat sheets. Although I love the WT's it would be straying quite far for the originality of the original trailer but just wanted to see what I'd be up against if I get stuck.

I do have a lot of sheet metal experience but making 4 replacement compound curve end caps is quite the hurdle hence the question….

[wkerfoot]

I think Colin Hyde, of TheVAP fame. has templates for 13 panel endcaps. I don't know if that includes the whale tale panels or not, but you could contact him.

Bill

Originally Posted by truckasaurus

I'm stripping down my trailer and the aft end caps are in worse shape than I thought, not yet a mega problem as I plan to English wheel them back to awesome but the hunt for a satisfactory English wheel gave me pause for thought…..which is always dangerous. (I'm not working in aviation anymore so all the industrial equipment is out of my grasp).

I started thinking about a back up plan and whether I could get paper templates from someone to whip up a shiny new Whale Tail from flat sheets. Although I love the WT's it would be straying quite far for the originality of the original trailer but just wanted to see what I'd be up against if I get stuck.

I do have a lot of sheet metal experience but making 4 replacement compound curve end caps is quite the hurdle hence the question….