I finished it this morning.
This is the final touch. A polished aluminum bracket I fabbed and solid maple stringers for my luggage rack.
In the next picture you can see the logo for my side business and one of the reasons I built this trailer.
The "uprights" I built are steel bolted to 1/2" thick by 3" wide 6061 Aluminum bar stock, I also built side plates and gussets out of the same material to make the uprights very rigid. The wheels are an off the shelf part from a runners baby stroller. They are quick release (push the black...
No, Nobody in their right mind would pay the kind of money this type of build costs. I probably have 40 hours in it. I am sure if I just went at it hard and built a few of them at the same time I could cut the time down but materials cost a pretty penny.
Nice of you to call it first class...
primer then paint.
time for color
fabbed a nice little push bar out of aluminum tube. I want it to look like a handlebar. I welded and ground the ends to make it look solid but it is actually thin wall tube so it is very light.
couple finish shots here.
Getting pretty close to having a roller now
Need to start figuring out the hitch. Mock it up on the tow bike
Forgot to take any pictures of the hitch, I will post up a detail on it if any one is interested in it.
so here it is for its first tow,
works great. time to get it finished...
Really starting to get there now. the basic shape is visible. now the actual chassis work
1/2" thick by 3" wide bar stock will be the "frame" that will hold the uprights.
Now one of the hard parts. the wheel wells or tubs. Using what I cut out of the sides as the inner wall I just needed to...
So I will post up a build thread here. This build is mostly .125" sheet aluminum. It is all anodized so I have to grind off all anodizing anywhere I want to weld it. That stuff is dang hard to get off but with enough perseverance I was successful so first pics are the forward wall and the the...
Building a trailer to end all trailers.
Aluminum construction, (all tig welded)
need some stuff.
I will be using 20" wheels and want to use a natural rubber (cream/off white) balloon tires.
Any leads?
If anyone is interested about my 1965 GMC.
Had it for a long long time. It is a very rare model that GMC built as a promotional exercise and was available as a special order for 1 year only. Purist cringe that I took something so rare and made a hot rod out of it...I don't care :D
I built...
We love to haul our bikes to fun places to ride, problem is they don't exactly fit in a traditional bike rack so we just toss them into our old hot rod. Besides it is cooler then hanging them on the car right?
my freshly built Felt Canvas