Different TT construction
It seems that the industry is slowly moving away from wood stud, fiberglass insulation and aluminum siding to the fiberglass skin, aluminum tubing, solid foam for wall construction. Both have their p...
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FrankShore wrote:
Ralph, have you looked at the 2 Lance construction videos I posted?
Lance Factory Tour by the Russo's
Yes. And referring to your previous post.
Lance laminated sidewalls are built the same as everything else. No matter how they weld it or assemble it, it's still an aluminum tube frame panel, inlaid with beaded foam. Lance uses Azdel for both substrate layers as opposed to Luan but the panel itself is no different in general than on my current Rockwood or previous Keystone and Aerolite.
Beaufloor is just a brand of flooring and Lamilux a brand of Filon. I have Beaufloor in my Rockwood. I think the fiberglass is Lamilux in it too, but in any case both are used by many of the RV manufacturers.
CNC router stations are common at least at the large manufacturers. The days of Jacob Yoder in his homemade jeans and suspenders, running around the plant like an executed chicken with a handheld router cutting out windows, are over at most manufacturers. I have been to Forest Rivers facility that fabricates all the wall panels for most of their brands, and they have lots of CNC equipment.
A Lance is built on an outsourced steel frame. It's not Lippert welded junk but either a BAL NORCO NXG or Ultraframe that's mostly bolted together. A frame none the less. Those are also used by others, not a Lance exclusive. Jayco uses them as do some others. Keystone currently uses BAL frames on some of their brands. The trailer in the OP's post has no steel frame and apparently gets it's stuctual strength through the cast polymer body itself.
The unit in the OP's post is unconventional over what Lance or most anyone else is doing in every sense of the word. A Lance has plywood for the floor and for roof sheathing. The one in the OP's link does not apparently have wood anywhere except maybe for interior cabinets and such.
I'm not knocking Lance, but it's not anything like the construction in the original post. Lance is built a little better than others according to some, which is debatable. The guy I ran into with a flooded Lance due to them not tightening the fill hose at the fill port will debate it all day long. But when you get right down to it, Lance is not generally different than the type of construction used by almost everyone else.
