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Old 04-02-2019, 11:24 AM   #15 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by stcyrwm View Post
Trail Manor ........... lift mechanism and slideouts, I might give it a go.
That is a brilliant design.

An older design I was playing with had a 2-foot high base that an aerocap lifted up from. Now the TrailManor gets into my head and I question rethinking it all.

My latest design sketch relies on a simplification; a piano hinge and gas springs mid-roof pop up verses the complexity of telescoping an entire cap.

The TrailManor seems just a little beyond a home-build concept with the engineering involved, but not by much if you can live with some potential leakage.

https://www.trailmanorowners.com/for...ead.php?t=4003


That Gif helps, at first I thought it went straight up and then slid horizontally, not so with the scissors mechanism.
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