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Old 08-28-2010, 09:39 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by aerohead;1ques91311
I see no reason why the unit wouldn't be very light,unlike my Frankensteinian creation.
Home Depot has an ABS plastic garden pool as large as a trailer body which probably doesn't weigh 20-pounds ( 9-kilos ).Two of these would account for enough plastic to create an upper and lower clamshell.With 3/4-inch ( 19mm ) plywood decking,we're still talking under 250-pounds ( 113-kilos ).
The gap-fillers are yet an un-resolved issue,but mine are evolving nicely,just have to wait.There are certainly dozens of 'solutions' for them,just like automatic drip coffee-makers.
At some point,it's a no-brainer.
Plastic garden pool idea: Pool is round, radiused at edge of side to bottom?

Cut in half vertically, then use one half inverted to fair the upper forward roof of trailer, and then use the other half upright to fair the forward floor to leading edge wall?

PVC pipe might work to stiffen, frame the fairing?

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