Adam's Covered Trailer Project

[Adam]

After a few months of planning, sketching, researching and disappearing off the the trailer park for hours on end during hillclimb weekends, I've finally got around to starting my covered trailer project.

The idea is to replicate the DG racebox like so:



on our 2007 Brian James Clubman trailer:



using parts from Service metals. The sides made from plygloss, held together with aluminium extrusions.

The parts (most of them at least) were delivered this morning so this weekend we should get going! Hope this is of interest to a few.

[Adam]

Here's the Service Metals website: http://www.servicemetals.co.uk/

Their catalogue is on there but without prices, see the screenshot of the spreadsheet above for a cost guide.

[jouhar]

This is definitely of interest - it would be great if you could build up a diary with pictures and descriptions of what and how you are doing it. Best of luck with the project !
Regards

Kelvin

[PumaWestie]

Funny that this should come up. I've just sold my last trailer and am starting another in the same design. My expected spend comes in at £700ish though. My parts were sourced from http://www.cvr-uk.com/panels.aspx which seem to be able to do the dry freight panels in 3000mm wide strips so splitting to 1500mm for additional height is easy. They were also much cheaper than Service Metals

[jouhar]

Originally Posted by PumaWestie

Funny that this should come up. I've just sold my last trailer and am starting another in the same design. My expected spend comes in at £700ish though. My parts were sourced from http://www.cvr-uk.com/panels.aspx which seem to be able to do the dry freight panels in 3000mm wide strips so splitting to 1500mm for additional height is easy. They were also much cheaper than Service Metals

OK - you should start another project thread and let's get some competition going - "who can build the best trailer and post the best project thread with pictures and descriptions" !

[PumaWestie]

Originally Posted by jouhar

OK - you should start another project thread and let's get some competition going - "who can build the best trailer and post the best project thread with pictures and descriptions" !

LOL - no thanks

Adam - what are you using for the roof, front and rear door?

[Adam]

That's unfair, John has prior experience!

My reason for choosing service metals is that they are just down the road, I went in and chatted to them and they were able to write me up a list of what I would need, supply samples etc and deliver when it was convenient. Made the process very easy. There probably are even cheaper ways of doing it

[Adam]

Originally Posted by PumaWestie

LOL - no thanks

Adam - what are you using for the roof, front and rear door?

The front and rear door will be made from the offcuts from the sides (two 3ftx6ft strips). The rear door will be upward hinging on gas struts and folding half way up to allow it to be opened without needing 6ft of space behind the trailer.

The roof is translucent fibreglass.

Hopefully all will become clearer as I proceed with the project!

[Adam]

Managed to cut the 8ft tall boards down to 5ft and 3ft strips today. The 5ft ones will be the sides and the 3ft ones (reduced to 2.5ft) cut in half the other way and joined with ali strip to make the front and rear. Bit of a painful job to move them around as they are the best part of 80kgs each and pretty flexible but we managed to get them laid out on some ladders on tyres to cut.

Pictures laid out and marking with a piece of angle:

[Adam]

And then cutting with a jigsaw (fibreglass blunts the blades pretty quickly ) and back in the garage. Tomorrows aim is to get the front piece made and cut to size before attacking the sides.