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Old 27th June 2014, 01:22 AM
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Great idea, looks very nice
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Old 27th June 2014, 09:27 AM
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once again absolutely stunning work
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Old 27th June 2014, 06:33 PM
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The car looks absolutely superb Andy.

You should be very pleased with yourself.
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Old 28th June 2014, 08:41 PM
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Thanks again guys.

So today I thought I would give the trailer a once over and I got to thinking about the weight of it. I kinda weighed it before and thought it was about 260kg, Roadster is ~620kg and the trailer is plated to 950 so I thought I was ok.

Turns out that the trailer weighed in at a porky 410kg!

The runners were made of 2, 10 ft x 500mm pieces of 6mm steel tread plate so I have replaced that with some 18mm WBP ply and its down to 290kg.



So nearly 140kg of steel there. Seemed a bit overkill.



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Old 28th June 2014, 09:08 PM
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Is that an old caravan chassis? Been thinking of putting a trailer together lately.
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Old 28th June 2014, 10:30 PM
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It is but it was made into a trailer a yonk ago. New trailers are supposed to be IVAed now.

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Old 29th June 2014, 08:24 PM
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Some of you may remember me promoting wearing eye protection when grinding when I posted a pic my eye ball with a metal shard in it. Well I was wearing eye protection this time when the 0.8mm blade shattered,



like a hammer to the face.

I converted an old welding mask after that.

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Old 30th June 2014, 09:35 AM
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It is but it was made into a trailer a yonk ago. New trailers are supposed to be IVAed now.

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Typical, I'll forget that idea then.
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