Trailer mods

 

New Look Trailer.

I had the van chassis delivered a few weeks ago and use my bike trailer to move it around. N 18 ton truck got it to my house and with a bit of pushing and shoving manoeuvred it out of the back of the truck and down onto the trailer. Once on the trailer it was easy to move around. It stayed parked up for a week until I could work out how to get it off the trailer and into a space where it could be worked on. In between time it was used as a plant stand. 

Having got the trailer out I  decided to do a few mods to it so that I could store it in a smaller space. This required taking the welded side supports off and making them bolt on. At the same time I varnished the wood and repainted the metal bits.  I drilled the bracing struts so they would bolt back in the same place before grinding off the weld. I hacksawed the corner uprights off and welded on side plates to enable bolting back on. I welded captive nuts to the inside of the trailer base frame. 

The plywood base needed to be trimmed away to accommodate the nuts and bolts that would protrude. The wooden sides would also need a bit of attention to fit again. The sides got a varnish too. All of the original screw holes for the base and the sides were filled and re-drilled and new screws fitted. The old screws were working a bit loose so I needed to do something. I had this trailer box made to fit my bike trailer over 30 years ago so a bit of  restoration was needed to get it into pristine condition again. I added a few more things to the trailer over the last few years to make it easier to strap a bike to it. Even thought I have had it for years it is still an evolving project. What else can I do with this trailer?

On a rainy day I made another phone stand. This time I used another mobile phone mount. This one was a cheapy from Lidl that would not stay stuck to the windscreen. I was waiting for a project to present itself so when the rubber sucking pad parted company from the base it was time to do something with it and the second phone stand was created.