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A custom lightweight insulated hard-sided truck camper for mid-size and half-tons. Decided against fiberglass since it can be a pain in the butt, especially wit
by 0xbadcafebee 2y ago
A custom lightweight insulated hard-sided truck camper for mid-size and half-tons. Decided against fiberglass since it can be a pain in the butt, especially with no garage and in the cold. Ideal would be no wood and minimal framing, but i'm not a mechanical engineer, so it's hard to calculate the forces involved, so over-building feels necessary. If anyone is a mechnical engineer, and bored, and would like to contribute their skills, I really want to open source the result so anyone can build it, using basic parts you can find at the big box store. So far I have a crappy model in FreeCAD and a lot of research material.
- asciimike 2y agoMind sharing the resource material? I've looked into this briefly, seems like a common-ish path for flat bed trucks is using a surplus S-280 (e.g. https://www.ramims.com/products/S-280C-G https://www.ramims.com/products/S-280C-G). I really like both: - https://www.dirttrailswanted.com/overland-peanut https://www.dirttrailswanted.com/overland-peanut (S-280 route) - https://wabisabioverland.com/ https://wabisabioverland.com/ (custom build, both in house and contracted through: https://totalcomposites.com/ https://totalcomposites.com/)