Teardrop Stretch

[stretchMike]

All Time Beginner, welcome to the Forum. Sorry for delay in replying – I don’t come here so often now.

My trailer is still performing great: 175 camping days and 35,000km now.

Regarding your idea: sorry to say that I do not think that using the kit is a feasible starting point for a stretch. Some reasons:

• stretching the supplied 3/4″ floor would require complicated splices and would be of doubtful strength.
• same with the other panels.
• adding a straight section into the curved shell panels would look very odd and would also require complicated splices.
• the supplied fiberglass, epoxy etc would not be adequate.

A general warning that any modification to the kit greatly adds to the time and cost involved. There tends to be a ripple effect with one thing affecting another.

I will text you in case you want to discuss further.

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[fischautotechgarten]

I suspect someone could buy just the written plans and manual ($207) and the mold ($349)… Then modify the mold for the increased length and resulting raised arc…

You could also purchase some of the hardware and asscessory kits (hatch outfitting hardware $ 238, door outfitting hardware $385, roof vent kit with fan $295, electrical template for $20, storage box $484 , galley module $394).

The integrated cargo carrier would be changed by increased lenght, so you wouldn’t want to purchase that as you’d have to lengthen at least 12 of the large pieces. Better just to purchase the plans for that if available (can’t see price on those).

(I guess if you were going to do this, you might also expermient with the consequences of widening it too. I wouldn’t, but perhaps others might. However, that would effect the galley and some hatch outfitting hardware) .

Obviously, I’ve given careful thought and planning to stretching it… My stretch idea has the square portion of the camper fully occupying the footprint of a 5×8 trailer deck. The angled front and rear portions would extend in front of and begind that 5×8 foot print.  The stretch is exactly 19 5/8″ and there is a cut schedule for all of the major straight pieces. The arc’d pieces, have not been fully accounted for  yet. That would be a result of modifying the mold and kind of ’emperically deriving’ (aka dry fit of the pieces) those final measures and placing them in an ‘as-built’ plan.

[fischautotechgarten]

This is kind of what I’ve worked out so far:

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