AJ120s 2009 D4D and DIY camper trailer

[Westcoast Mark Member Find all posts View Profile Close Westcoast Mark]

Wow! Just spent a couple of hours reading this thread from the beginning :-D.
Fantastic work all round Andrew! So many ideas I now have for my 150.

Keep up the great work mate, and I look forward to seeing what you do next.

Cheers,
Mark

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Wow! Just spent a couple of hours reading this thread from the beginning :-D.
Fantastic work all round Andrew! So many ideas I now have my 150.

Keep up the great work mate, and I look forward to seeing what you do next.

Cheers,
Mark

I am impressed you went all the way through, its getting pretty long nowadays Glad you liked it and don't worry you wont need to wait long for the next custom made project to come along, working on one at the moment.

Cheers Andrew

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I really like your roof console mate, and am keen to make one myself. Would you happen to have the specs for length and width please?

Cheers,
Mark

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I really like your roof console mate, and am keen to make one myself. Would you happen to have the specs for length and width please?

Cheers,
Mark

The roof console is 240mm wide including the fabric and foam underlay, so around 230mm wide for the timber frame. Just a touch over 900mm long but that was governed by the position of the interior light and needing to remove that and cover the hole that it left. it 160mm deep in the deepest spot.

Wooden frame is all made out of 9mm plywood.

When I first installed it things felt a little claustrophobic, but I quickly got used to that, I wouldn't want it any bigger though or it would start to be an issue.

Cheers Andrew

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Thanks for that Andrew. Interestingly the distance from the sunglass holder at the front to the interior light in the 150 is approximately 1500mm.

Cheers,
Mark

[Mattfunk 120 Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close Mattfunk 120]

Hey Andrew, I have done a barter with the welders at work and they are going to knock me up a set of sliders and when it gets quieter and they make theirs as we'll. I am going to buy the aluminium checker plate as they don't have any laying . I was just wondering what thickness you would suggest

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I use 1.6mm Aluminium sheet.

Cheers Andrew

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Thank you sir . Hopefully they'll look half as good as yours
Matt

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AJ makes a fine quality product.

Be prepared to be disappointed that what you make will never be quite as good.

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Thanks for the encouragement mad kore, I know AJs product is top quality but if I can get some protection for my sills made up for $100 for some checker plate , I reckon it's happy days .
Thanks Matt

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Doing some work recently and I took the front OE bash plate off, making a new one has been on my "to do" list for a long time but there always seems to be something more important to do. Anyway the OE one was so banged up this time that I couldn't refit it, so finally bit the bullet and made a new one.




I haven't had a chance to get it powder coated yet, that will have to wait until after the next trip.

Cheers Andrew

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Just a few random shots from our most recent trip.












I'll get a trip report up soon

Cheers Andrew

[Westcoast Mark Member Find all posts View Profile Close Westcoast Mark]

Great pics Andrew! Looks like you had a top trip mate.

Looking forward to the report

Cheers,

Mark

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Nice shots Andrew. Looking forward to the updates to the latest trip report.

Gotta ask though, how do you find room to store the 'random' wildlife that appears in a number of your photos? I guess the sleepy lizards dont take up much room and they're always on-hand for a photo op!!

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They're are Trishes stuffed toys. She is allowed to take one toy on each trip.