NEW GAME: Help Build A Virtual Airstream

[Frank's Trailer Works]

This one is so easy,
I would send a 1962 Overlander to China and have them copy it rivet for rivet...

[Phrunes]

Originally Posted by goshawks00

How about a discussion on what size this virtual airstream is going to be... That's a lot of "stuff' for a Bambi ;.) 1 axle /2/3/4? Weight an issue? This is already turned into a 10,000 lb elephant and we haven't even gotten to the pair of 200 gal fresh water tanks yet. I think we need to agree on what the final size will be before we can 'build' it.

Ooooohhhh! Good catch on the size.

My vote is 26 footer.

[barts]

Originally Posted by ROBERTSUNRUS

Hi, hydraulic disc brakes, only if they can be controlled with a vacuum booster, run by a vacuum pump, with a vacuum storage tank, and with ABS. Todays little electric motor driven pumps are a joke with many failures.

ABS would be nice. I've not had any problems w/ the Carlisle actuator I put in our trailer, but that's been only three years. Either a vacuum or air pressure based booster would be a better design, but right now those don't seem to be available for trailers. I could see converting a regular car brake booster with a vacuum pump; the linear motor needed to drive the brake booster might be a bit of a project. A compressed air system would be smaller.

- Bart

[Globie64]

How about weight? I love the fiberglass floor idea, or maybe aluminum honeycomb/carbon fiber sheets, something that won't rot. High strength galvanized steel frame, or a boxed aluminum frame with a perimeter channel so the shell attaches to the frame more and not the flooring. Underfloor tanks for waster and water

[m.hony]

3 axle 34' trailer...

[Phrunes]

Here's an idea...boxed frame as Bob suggeated, but channels integrated into inside perimeter of frame allowing "floating subfloor" to slide in from rear. Anchored from bottom with springloaded pins. Body frame connected to points on outside perimeter of said frame with location brackets to aide in construction at factory.

[m.hony]

I thought I had posted this before, but I don't see it...3 axle 34' trailer.

[m.hony]

Oh...there it is....twice....

[m.hony]

Have we made it to flooring? Real oak hardwood or maybe bamboo flooring on internationals. That is the number one thing I would change. I like the teak wood floors in the new Land Yacht.