Budget Tiny Camper/Squaredrop

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Budget Tiny Camper/Squaredrop

Postby camperRN » Mon Mar 12, 2018 11:26 am

First post of my Tiny Camper / Squaredrop.

I already had a 1973 Coleman popup trailer that I bought from a relative for $200. It was actually in pretty good shape for its age. But, one of the lift posts had a broken cable and one of the bunkends had previously broken and been repaired but still never worked quite right. It had a 15amp shore hookup but no converter for using a battery, no interior lighting, a stove and sink but no fresh or grey water tank, no toilet, and an odd smell that I'm sure is a mixture of years of camping, campfire smoke, BO, and vintage 1970's.

I forgot to take pictures of the tear-down, but after 2 1/2 days of blood, sweat, cussing, and realizing I was using a wood blade instead of a metal blade on my saw, I finally got the trailer down to bare frame.
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Re: Budget Tiny Camper/Squaredrop

Postby camperRN » Mon Mar 12, 2018 11:46 am

All in all the frame appears to be in good shape, the bearing appear to have been changed recently, a little bit of surface rust but nothing a wire brush on some rustolem can't fix.

Here it is after cleaning, scrubbing, triming, and a coat of paint.
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I also inverted the wiffle tree cover and bolted it back on the frame, not sure it will add much strength but I don't think it will hurt anything.

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Re: Budget Tiny Camper/Squaredrop

Postby camperRN » Mon Mar 12, 2018 11:55 am

here's a picture of the window I scored for free

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And this is my rough sketch Idea for the trailer.

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Re: Budget Tiny Camper/Squaredrop

Postby MrBo » Wed Mar 14, 2018 10:57 am

camperRN wrote:here's a picture of the window I scored for free

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And this is my rough sketch Idea for the trailer.

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Love it. Great name too!



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