Travel Trailers with Aluminum Frames
This one seems to have an aircraft grade aluminum frame. Are there advantages to this ? Is it the only one ? Is it practical cost wise ? YouTube video of all aluminum frame in the factory
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WayneAt63044 wrote:
SunnyBrook (now Winnebago Towables) has been building with aluminum frames for years, dunno if they still do. I had no problems with the 3 I had made in 1995, 2000, & 2005.
Just now viewed the video & I see the chassis is aluminum. The SunnyBrook chassis was steel but the framing for the body was aluminum.
I could be wrong, but being that I have toured their facility, I don't think I am. SunnyBrook/Winnebago doesn't use aluminum frames as the foundation/running gear. Only the trailer box itself. Mine is aluminum framed but sits on a Lippert steel frame underneath.
I'd be a litte afraid of the quality of aluminum welds given the steel welds I've seen. Aluminum welding is a little more critical and a hsndful of cold joints would lead to disaster. If the welder were competent then yes. But I've seen very little competence when it comes to quality construction of any sort relating to travel trailers.
