ROUND TAIL

[Prem]

Sharon -- Thanks.

S. Stewart -- Thanks, and no kidding!

Ageless -- From French paintings of the 1800s.
P.S. Get some color in your curtains. Nothing worse than a monochrome hippie wagon.

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[Prem]

ROUND TAIL Sold

[meach4x4]

:D ROUND TAIL Sold

Whaa... You sold it before you did the interior??? If not, where are the interior pics at?

Gil

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Yup. Sold it to a finish carpenter buddy!

Now I've got a 5x10 V-nose CargoMate to convert on the inside for another friend in CA.

[meach4x4]

8) Yup. Sold it to a finish carpenter buddy!

Now I've got a 5x10 V-nose CargoMate to convert on the inside for another friend in CA.

Good move! Are you planning on doing a build thread on this forum?

Gil

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Gil,

I may put up a few photos in a new Cargo Trailer Conversions thread, but not here on Member Designs.

Prem

[Woodstramp]

Prem,

First....(I never go to the Member Designs section)..just found your build...went through it all. Envelope to that camper. Amazing. My hat is off to you ( Not "kissin butt" kind of Amazing...just a "observation" kind of Amazing.)

Like your methodology....Idea on envelope...add beer/elbow grease/humor and you end up with that. I'm more in league with Ageless. My camper drawings are scattered in 14 various notebooks and loose sheets.

Hey, got a serious question....earlier you said: "It's polyurethane glue (aka Gorilla Glue, but I buy off-brand and get a lot more for the $). It foams up if nothing is compressing it."

What is the off brand is that you buy? Love the G-glue, hate the price.

Oh yeah, PS...you call the new rig the Round Tail. I thunk up and offer another if you aint settled with the first. Prem did this on an Envelope...call it the "Premvelope".

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Woodstramp in Bama,

The answer to your glue question is: Any brand of polyurethane glue cheaper than gorilla glue at ACE Hardware.

The trailer is long gone now to its new owner who is calling it The Round Tail.

Thanks for the kudos. It ain't genius, unless genius = 1% inspiration, 4% experience and 95% work. Building the Round Tail for me was just the product of lots of experience, boredom with the conventional, unaerodynamic shapes of trailers and trying to innovate. Round Tail was experimental RV #11 for me. I started building wild rigs 30+ years ago in northern Arizona.

I actually drew the design for Round Tail directly on the sheets of plywood as lines to cut, not first on the paper envelope. I drew it on the envelope AFTER I had the walls cut out in place on the chassis. Seriously. I just posted the envelope drawing first to give people a basic, graphic representation of what it was going to look like when finished.

Prem