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Old 02-25-2015, 12:21 AM   #17 (permalink)
huntersirg
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Wow really impressed with all this info!

I've been doing a lot of reading on the foamie teardrop trailers with this cheap fiberglass alternative.

Seems they are making a lightweight trailer bodys just by using blue or pink bigbox store insulation foam, then covering it in this order titebond II/drop cloth canvas/gripper primer/exterior porch paint and claiming a very strong super lightweight waterproof shell.

Might be a good alternative to chloroplast for boattails and such as you can gorilla glue the foam to your desired shape then just wrap it with the canvas.

I'd like to do the radius on the edges but not sure how to go about the foam shaping. Thinking I would need to build frame on the inside and then that would need to be screwed and glued to the roof of the van and the top.

How about an adhesive to glue the whole thing on like 3m 5200 or ? and how to make sure the leading edge it held down securely.

Thank you for sharing the knowledge!

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