Sankey Tent Trailer

[Arlo]

This is what you get:

a little bit corrosion here ...

... and there.

It'll take some hours to get it shiny! :wavey:

But let's have a look step by step.

When the bed is off the frame you'll first have a chance to calculate what you get.

The bed is something for the yard junky (it's made of corrosive steel, welded from sheet, havey... I don't like it)!

This is what you'll get back after sandblasting after all the parts had come apart hopeful :Wow1::

:ylsmoke:

It's always great to have a second trailer to get the new parts of the body and others zinc plated!

Assembling is just fun!

At last there was the procedure with the license plate... I guess these very special guys are spreaded out all over the world, aren'd they?

But I've got it! :victory:

tbc

 

[Nightfire]

I'm just starting my disk braked Mk3 rebuild. Your's is the first I have seen with a Galv chassis! Looks great! I'm doing the same to mine, although many have advised me not to bother because they are so thick they never rust through on the chassis.

Initially I am going to speedline the inside of the tub, the inside of the wheel arches and underside, then colour code the rest of the tub exterior in Epsom Green to match my Defender.

My hubs are being modified to allow matching EvoCorse Dakar whels to be fitted, also to match the Defender.

What is the machined part you post a picture of above as I can't see it on your trailer? Hub cover, Brake reservoir cover maybe?

 

[Arlo]

Hi, this is just a tool to bend out the bore inside the sheet for the side lamps in front of the trailer.

Getting the wide track chassis galvanized needs some big bores to let the fluids in and the air out of the tubes.

Kurt

 

[Nightfire]

Getting the wide track chassis galvanized needs some big bores to let the fluids in and the air out of the tubes.

Thanks for the guidance Kurt, i'll look at what I need to do to prepare the chassis.

 

[Arlo]

The Howlingmoon Trailer Tent

 

[TheThom]

Looks terrific!

 

[zukrider]

i like it!

 

[Arlo]

Modifications at chassis, handbrake, hubs a.s.o.

cranked handbrake lever

modified oilcatcher

tool to center the oil catcher

new hub caps

4th supporting leg

 

[Arlo]

handbrake assembly

overun unit

additional greasing points

 

[brushogger]

Wow! Arlo you do amazing work. That thing is an expo-castle. I like this! I like this! I like this! I had a friend while growing up whose grandfather was a machinist in Germany pre-WWII. He said during his apprenticeship, they were given a block of iron about 1/2" oversize, and a file. He had to "machine" it down with the file to the required dimensions with no more than .005" error on all sides. German precision is tough to beat.

 

[Arlo]

Well, my block wasn't that much oversized during the education but my tool was a file too.
That happend long ago and far away in the late 60se of the last century.

We just call it: Stahl erzieht! (Steel educates)
But I'm not quite sure about this translation, so I'll send you the longer version:

... "to bring somebody up to be a fine, upstanding person" :wings:

Nevertheless, you're welcome! :friday:

Kurt

 

[Nightfire]

He said during his apprenticeship, they were given a block of iron about 1/2" oversize, and a file. He had to "machine" it down with the file to the required dimensions with no more than .005" error on all sides. German precision is tough to beat.

I doubt any German engineer would entertain any challenge where the measurements or tolerances where in inches!!

I had to do the same as an apprentice piece in 1998, teaches discipline apparently. If you took off too much material you had to start again...you don't do that twice!

 

[Arlo]

Equipment:

 

[Vicreo A Legarreta]

Equipment:

wow I do admire your work, i will like to build one, one question, for what use is the piston hitch never see like that

 

[Arlo]

Hi,

this is the standart Nato-hitch which is used on all military vehicles with a draught-eye.

The claw is able to rotate full 360° in case of the draught-eye is fixed.
Otherwise the claw can be fixed if the draught-eye is able to rotate in its housing.

Kurt