by Kenp51 » Thu Dec 22, 2016 7:38 pm
Glue would go a long way towards waterproofing. BUT,,,,, coroplast is not the easiest stuff to glue.
There are a bunch of radio control guys who use it and glue. They still use fasteners.
You have to scuff it and the they use flame to flash the oils out of/off of it.
Aluminum tape would work and last. I sealed a metal storage shed with it. It last for till I moved which was a good number of years..
I keep running over building one in my head every once in a while.
Just make sure it is suitable for bicycle trailering. Reasonably rugged, insulated for winter. The silver filmed foam sheets would work fine. For curved sections, a series of cuts (not all of the way through) would let you bend it.
A small solar panel to charge a cell phone or and a battery (would have to be a small deep cycle) for some LED lighting. But that would shoot the cost way up.
To really go all the way a bicycle with a small 2 stroke engine would be great.
Now how the heck do you go about designing a bike, camper (?) for a couple? Anything less than 4 foot wide would be uncomfortably small. A fold out or some thing that expanded would be complex. Just make it the required width and the end user just would have to accept that sidewalks were not a going to be navigable.
Scavenging, second hand materiel, donated materiel would be a prerequisite to make something affordable to donate.
Small 2 stroke engines can often be picked up for really cheap or free at small engine repair shops If you were going to build a motorized tow bike. Not at all legal in many states. But here in Ca they kind of fall between the cracks of the law and regulations. Cops almost alway ignore them unless they are to noisy or the rider is being a total jerk.
Ken
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