Attention all Wolf Creek 850 Owners

Mello Mike wrote:

bka0721 wrote:

Mello Mike wrote:

joeshmoe wrote:

My point is, it is clear that not all units have an obvious splice looking only from the exterior. Obviously. Look at mine. It appears that the new failure also bears this out. There no clean line in the tru-grit, but the splice of wood is certainly there, and easily seen from the interior.

I disagree. I can see a clear seam in the tru-grit in Mkuzmuk's WC850 as you can in Nolan's old WC850. It appears to me that this external seam near the front tie down is the weak point in both failures. You can see a clean break in the wood along this seam. If the wood had failed in any other way there wouldn't have been a clean break along a well defined straight edge.

Let me understand what you are really talking about here. (I have followed this topic all the way back to the TC sitting in the middle of the gravel road) The bracket that is attached to the camper not on the structural framed outside wall, but to the horizontal wings (plywood webbing) via bolts not reinforced to any rigid structure? Just the plywood?

b

Unfortunately, yes. :(

That makes me very sad.

I would implore you to take immediate action to reassess where and how you wish to move forward with the attaching brackets for your Truck Camper.

Before any more travels off a level and paved roadway, as well as windy conditions, including sudden vehicle movements, relocate your attaching brackets, abandoning the current ones. Following the path of this thread in debating whether or not the plywood is seamed or not, in pointless. The over all problem is not the seam issue, but how the bracket is being used. Some of you have lost perspective on the Big Picture of this problem. Step back and think about what you are debating about.

But, that is just my, honest opinion.

b