Teardrops n Tiny Travel Trailers

Posted: **Tue Mar 07, 2006 1:11 pm**

Posted: **Tue Mar 07, 2006 1:17 pm**

John,

Nice job on the hatch supports... I like it...

Mike...

Posted: **Tue Mar 07, 2006 3:36 pm**

Why don't these links work for me? Safari can't find the server.

Posted: **Tue Mar 07, 2006 3:47 pm**

They didn't work for me either. I had to go to the main page (bottom link) and look at them from there.

Posted: **Tue Mar 07, 2006 3:48 pm**

They didn't work for me either, IRA. I thought it was just a Mozilla thing.

Just click on the photo album link in his sig, then look from there.

Posted: **Tue Mar 07, 2006 4:11 pm**

I altered the links. They should work now. I don't know why it did not work the first time. They worked when I tested them before posting perhaps because I was still sighned in with yahoo.

And I still can't reorder my pics at yahoo. It freaks out every time I try so I guess I'll wait till later.

sorry

Posted: **Tue Mar 07, 2006 6:49 pm**

That's pretty nifty! :thumbsup:

Rob

Posted: **Tue Mar 07, 2006 8:20 pm**

...very ingenious...ain't we some smart folks around here

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Posted: **Tue Mar 07, 2006 8:33 pm**

Camp-inn uses something similiar, but they use only 1
http://home.centurytel.net/edevold/images/viewd1.jpg

Posted: **Tue Mar 07, 2006 10:23 pm**

Very nice!!!

Posted: **Tue Mar 07, 2006 10:40 pm**

Thanks guys and wow check out the camp in.

After seeing the one with the spring lock I thought about switching.
My galley has too much curve and too little space to have any straight struts. My strut had to be curved.

Posted: **Wed Mar 08, 2006 10:29 am**

John,

Now that is the kind of creative hatch support I like to see. Like Ken said that is a very similiar approach to what we do. The big difference is the slot on ours is on the trailer and the pin is on the arm. Having a single one in the middle is nice because you only need two hands to close it, but yours is pretty darn slick any way you look at it. And hey, no gas struts going bad in the near future.

Cary

Posted: **Wed Mar 08, 2006 11:20 am**

John:

I like your build pics. Good idea to cut the side framing out of plywood and fill in the voids with foam.

I went the gas struts because the weight of the hatch seemed to be too heavy for my daughters to lift without additional help. Your idea seems real functuional and simple. I like things real simple.

Larry