Teardrop trailer construction 2

We finally had a day to go back to work on the trailer. In this first picture you can see that we cut out the sides. It took a little while to lay it out but we finall y decided on the shape we wanted. After cutting one side we used the original as the pattern and cut out the second one. After that it was a matter of screwing them together to sand them to an exact

match.

Next came the glue up of the floor. Our trailer is 5 ft wide so we cut two sheets of plywood, routed wood wafers every six inches on the joint and then glued and clamped them together until dry. We have a solid metal frame down the center of our trailer frame so this joint will be supported all the way.

Once the floor was done we fit it to the frame and sanded the joint and floor. We then took it into the spray room and sealed it. The bottom was sealed from moisture with asphalt emolsion and them bolted and glued to the frame.

We knotched the back panels for the trunk lid and started standing the walls and adding the cross members. We have been building a set of cherry interior doors for a company in Las Vegas so all of our cross members have been cut out of cherry scrap. Pretty costly to buy but more scrap than we will use. It is actually coming together pretty well. It even looks like some of the pictures.

This is a close up of the ceiling framing. We have framed an opening for the motorized vent. These trailers are air tight when they are done so you have to be able to open a window and get a little air movement. Each framing member is screwed and glued together for strength.

This is where we stopped for the day. As it begins to take shape we are getting more into it and should make some good progress in the next couple of weeks.