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Old 02-23-2014, 11:56 AM   #9 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Giovanni LiCalsi View Post
You may consider building the trailer frame out of aluminum and also the panels with Inrekor . You can assemble your own Inrekor panels yourself by using polyethylene foam boards.
Ideally I would like an aluminum frame trailer but think that might push costs up a bunch. The composite panels were already the plan but I would like to use prebuilt ones meaning they would be flat. There is a supplier out side of Olympia, WA that does aluminum clad 4'x8'x2" for under $200 each. If I homebuild the panels in place I could do gradual curves but I have not actually tried to build my own. I want to keep the weight under 2500# loaded, preferably under 2000#.

Shouldn't a single axle be better in this application?
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