Rugged Mountain truck campers are built in Idaho and are basically the Old Northland truck camper with the majority of the crew working there...
When asked about wood vs aluminum in there TC's,this was the reply..
TCM: Why not frame with aluminum?
Jesse: Before we started Rugged Mountain production, I built camper walls with aluminum framing. What I found is that the metal on luan separated the adhesive in cold and hot weather. The lamination adhesives holding the fiberglass skin to the quarter-inch luan backing were letting loose on the aluminum side.
I could not find an adhesive that didn’t suffer this problem. Here in Idaho, we have cold winters and hot summers. I do not want a de-lamination problem, so we decided to stay with wood framed campers.
