February 2005
The next job is to strip the
bottom section. This is one nasty job, which can only be done outside.
So now I'm dependent on the weather. Untill now I was able to work the
half of a Saturday on it, and the month is almost over.
In the meantime I've found a
supplier which can provide me from aluminum plates of 1m width in
stucco dessin, it is the firm www.metaalwinkel.nl and it is located in
Rotterdam. (After that it appears that the supplier doesn't have this
material, he had made a mistake. The stucco aluminum which he does have
is only 0,2mm thick, THAT SUCKS!)
Just to be sure I'v measured
again how much metre of plates I need. Half of the caravan round on
middel height is 7,3 metre. So when buying 30 metres I should have
enough. The plates for the upper part of the caravan costs 8,50 euro
excl. VAT, That's my luck :)
The bottom section also needed
some new corner steadies. The original corner steadies had a length of
42 cm en when completely printed out were vertical, which is not good
for the stability. The used corner steadies are identical to the corner
steadies of the Triton and the Troll from that period, but these types
are a few cm lower, because they used smaller tyres. That's why these
corner steadies are too short for a TITAN.
When searching for new corner
steadies, I found one which had the same construction but the
length of this one was 50 cm. The spindle is also much thicker than the
original corner steadies, which is good for its strength. These corner
steadies have to be attached with two screws, and the end of the
spindle has to slide in a hole.
Of course these things aren't
present in the bottom section, because original the corner steadies
were one with the frame. The new corner steadies can't be put
crosswise, because they are much longer, and because of that it doesn't
fit between the V-drawbar en the outersides.
The corner steadies are therfore placed in the length, with a small
angle inwards. The parts we needed too attached the corner steadies,
are made en welded under the frame.
