The more and more I learn about manufactured trailers is making me realize for what they charge for these things it just makes more sense to build your own if you want it to last more than a few years of weekend trips let alone living in one.
Thank you very much for putting these videos out. It's very interesting and I'm learning a lot. Please keep them coming, if possible. I saw one of your truck toppers on a random Alaska RUclips video a year or so ago, but the video didn't show the name or maker of the topper, so I searched for Alaskan-made truck toppers and found your website. I really like the looks of your "Cabinet Canopies" and "Classic Function Over Form Topper." Thanks again!
@@tntandgemma5575 we sure will! Thank you for the feedback. I'm happy to be doing these. Our expertise is manufacturing and repair more than making videos. So these will get better. Or maybe they are good just the way they are.
I used to have an aluminum camper that had no wood anywhere in its construction. Frame was aluminum. The outer skin was sheet aluminum bonded to the welded aluminum skeleton. No substrate. Interior skin was Azdel. Floor was made of welded aluminum extrusions running the length of the camper. Bunks, cabinets & cabinet doors were welded aluminum skinned with sheet aluminum. Roof was sheet aluminum. I had issues with frame welds cracking & ended up having a few of the frame joints re-welded. But otherwise was a good camper. The company got bought by one of the big RV companies, who cheapened the product until it was junk, then shut down the brand.
There have been many buy outs like that. Personally I have been in the industry for 14 -years. About 4 years in everything started changing so fast because the boomers began retiring from the big companies and the boomers with small businesses started selling to the big guys. The industry change over night, 10-years, like the flip of a switch. The boomer who built our company transferred his knowledge to us well and now I feel the ever growing pressure. The big guys are misinforming on a large scale and the people who are suffering from it are the people buying the product. They're just getting lied to and crushed. That is why we decided to finally pull back the cover and start share inside videos. The videos will get better and I'll do better putting my thoughts together for you but we're going to show all of this stuff. About 150-small companies that the entire industry relied on for so long sold out or went under in the past 10 years and so much shifted to what I like to call corporatism. So thank you for sharing that because it just makes me more determined to keep going. Seen so much of it.
aluminum build is aluminum tubing walls never see wood pounded in to a tube of aluminum that defeets the purpus of using aluminum built verses stick build, theses are trilers there not ment to last a life time and they do not theses aluminum builds are laminated pannels there glued to aluminum the cabnits add strenght to the build dependng how they manufacture them when you intutupt this design you defeet the integurity of that build hence you get a pice of plywood scabbed in to the rear of your toy howler to suport or they jam a shot pice of wood in the joint to be stapled yes stapled most stick built are much heavyer and stapled togather they are not even as weather proof as laminiate sides iv riped a lot of these thing apart an fab a lot of my own ... this is why you should never buy in to a extended warrantee
O aluminum dosent rust you have a pice of metal there proly for suport of your toy door or wall or spring or hinge or fold down seat or some other dum a*** thing we just got to have lmao
The more and more I learn about manufactured trailers is making me realize for what they charge for these things it just makes more sense to build your own if you want it to last more than a few years of weekend trips let alone living in one.
Thank you very much for putting these videos out. It's very interesting and I'm learning a lot. Please keep them coming, if possible. I saw one of your truck toppers on a random Alaska RUclips video a year or so ago, but the video didn't show the name or maker of the topper, so I searched for Alaskan-made truck toppers and found your website. I really like the looks of your "Cabinet Canopies" and "Classic Function Over Form Topper." Thanks again!
@@tntandgemma5575 we sure will! Thank you for the feedback. I'm happy to be doing these. Our expertise is manufacturing and repair more than making videos. So these will get better. Or maybe they are good just the way they are.
I'm thinking about buying a camper I was wondering what they're really made of. Now I know a little bit more thanks.
I used to have an aluminum camper that had no wood anywhere in its construction. Frame was aluminum. The outer skin was sheet aluminum bonded to the welded aluminum skeleton. No substrate.
Interior skin was Azdel. Floor was made of welded aluminum extrusions running the length of the camper. Bunks, cabinets & cabinet doors were welded aluminum skinned with sheet aluminum. Roof was sheet aluminum.
I had issues with frame welds cracking & ended up having a few of the frame joints re-welded. But otherwise was a good camper.
The company got bought by one of the big RV companies, who cheapened the product until it was junk, then shut down the brand.
There have been many buy outs like that. Personally I have been in the industry for 14 -years. About 4 years in everything started changing so fast because the boomers began retiring from the big companies and the boomers with small businesses started selling to the big guys. The industry change over night, 10-years, like the flip of a switch. The boomer who built our company transferred his knowledge to us well and now I feel the ever growing pressure. The big guys are misinforming on a large scale and the people who are suffering from it are the people buying the product. They're just getting lied to and crushed. That is why we decided to finally pull back the cover and start share inside videos. The videos will get better and I'll do better putting my thoughts together for you but we're going to show all of this stuff. About 150-small companies that the entire industry relied on for so long sold out or went under in the past 10 years and so much shifted to what I like to call corporatism. So thank you for sharing that because it just makes me more determined to keep going. Seen so much of it.
My toyhauler walls are sagging and other issues, 2015 Blazing, and i feel all Lippert chassis are under rated,
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aluminum build is aluminum tubing walls never see wood pounded in to a tube of aluminum that defeets the purpus of using aluminum built verses stick build, theses are trilers there not ment to last a life time and they do not theses aluminum builds are laminated pannels there glued to aluminum the cabnits add strenght to the build dependng how they manufacture them when you intutupt this design you defeet the integurity of that build hence you get a pice of plywood scabbed in to the rear of your toy howler to suport or they jam a shot pice of wood in the joint to be stapled yes stapled most stick built are much heavyer and stapled togather they are not even as weather proof as laminiate sides iv riped a lot of these thing apart an fab a lot of my own ... this is why you should never buy in to a extended warrantee
O aluminum dosent rust you have a pice of metal there proly for suport of your toy door or wall or spring or hinge or fold down seat or some other dum a*** thing we just got to have lmao
Aluminum does however still corrode