CHASSIS BUILD

The last few days I finished the floor and prepared the chassis for the trip to QLD. I still had a very small leak in the airline around the load share valve, but it is now fixed. I also connected a few more cables to the load share valves and the brake locks.

Shaun was so kind to organise the glue for me. Sausages of 600g with KD Bond. Of course a German product for the Teutanic.

I used an air gun to apply the glue. For the whole floor I used 13 of the sausages, which makes another 7+ kg.

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well almost.  Just a few bits left on the rear right. I also added a few of the underbelly cover supports. These are t-sections across the underside of the trailer. These will be used to hold the cover sheets of alu honeycomb 6mm panels. These panels will cover the whole underside from front to rear.

I have to do a few more of these tomorrow and then the lot will be welded. In the middle section is a bit more to do because the trailing arms require a bit extra work to go around them and cover everything else.  I […]

at least for me .. Some of my kite friends have been out all winter but this winter was really not very nice in terms of kiting opportunities.

This was the first time I was out in some time, and unfortunately it was not that great. Beautiful day at the beach, nice water, but just not enough wind and I did not pack the big gun. I trusted the actual reading too much and it dropped as per forecast. The boys at the bureau got it right this time and I did not believe them. Tough luck .. next time […]

The filler lines and all the breather lines for the drinking water and fresh water tanks are finished. Have to finish a couple of outlets for the drinking water, the fresh water is also finished.

I also had to fit the last tank brackets for the diesel and one drinking water tank.

The images below show the brackets and also the cross brace underneath the chassis, holding the tank hangers and pressing against the cross member to eliminate upward movement of the tanks. This is all pretty solid now and will withstand bad abuse even when the tanks are full or […]

Done more plumbing work today. This is getting real boring, however quite important to make sure that everything is absolutely solid, does not move or rub anywhere and will withstand any abuse by road or temperature.

It took  some time for me to decide what pipes and fittings to use. Until recently I still thought I am going to use pex and push in fittings for the hot lines, but not anymore.

I made some tests after the disaster with the push in air fittings. I used the pex fittings and made a pressure connection with my compressor hose and pumped […]

Today I resumed installation of the water tank connections. Had to get a few more hose clamps. I had been thinking a while what to use for inlets and outlets, if I should use pex or push in fittings with standard 12 mm piping etc.

One reason I use food grade hose and hose clamps with poly fittings is weight again. I have motorised ball valves at the inlets and outlets of each tank, they already add up in weight. A lot more brass fittings would considerably add to the weight.

I will use pex for the hot water connections where […]