Avion truck campers - Hundreds of photos
Without going into too much painful detail, we had a mishap several week-ends ago. While working with sand bag crews on the Mississippi River, the truck and camper fell into the flood waters as a road...
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Silver, I'm planning to put one Hepvo at the point where the combined pipes from sink and shower enter the graywater tank. I have also eliminated the vent - one less roof penetration. It's my goal to run only the solar panel wire through the roof.
The Argo project lurches along. I have completed the mock-up for the side storage units, the areas under the wings. I cut 1.5"x1.5" strips of rigid foam and using hot glue and tape, devised a layout that works pretty well. The CAD guy is drawing up the plans for Gary, the fabricator, to work from. I am thinking to attach the outer skin to these frames with 3M VHB tape, a double-sided, industrial strength adhesive and sealant tape that is being used by truck, trailer and RV manufacturers. It will reduce the number of rivets, which is probably a good thing. If the outside skin goes on easily, I'm thinking to use the tape to apply a new inner skin. I'm ditching the old vinyl covered inner skin. It would be a very clean installation without the hundreds of rivets.
The revelation in doing the mock up was that following the curve of the camper - reflected in the way the sides angle in at the rear of the camper - results in a very clean design. Note: I haven't added the frames for the curved fronts of the side units but they will be there in the final product. Plus doors configured in a manner still to be determined:
The lower half of the forward compartments will have plastic water tanks, one on each side of about 30 gallons each, keeping the weight low and centered on the chassis.
While the frames are being built, I'm going to go thru all the wiring I've installed inside Argo to prepare for installing the inner skin.
Desperately hoping to be roadworthy by summer...
The Argo project lurches along. I have completed the mock-up for the side storage units, the areas under the wings. I cut 1.5"x1.5" strips of rigid foam and using hot glue and tape, devised a layout that works pretty well. The CAD guy is drawing up the plans for Gary, the fabricator, to work from. I am thinking to attach the outer skin to these frames with 3M VHB tape, a double-sided, industrial strength adhesive and sealant tape that is being used by truck, trailer and RV manufacturers. It will reduce the number of rivets, which is probably a good thing. If the outside skin goes on easily, I'm thinking to use the tape to apply a new inner skin. I'm ditching the old vinyl covered inner skin. It would be a very clean installation without the hundreds of rivets.
The revelation in doing the mock up was that following the curve of the camper - reflected in the way the sides angle in at the rear of the camper - results in a very clean design. Note: I haven't added the frames for the curved fronts of the side units but they will be there in the final product. Plus doors configured in a manner still to be determined:
The lower half of the forward compartments will have plastic water tanks, one on each side of about 30 gallons each, keeping the weight low and centered on the chassis.
While the frames are being built, I'm going to go thru all the wiring I've installed inside Argo to prepare for installing the inner skin.
Desperately hoping to be roadworthy by summer...
