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Some of you remember that I made Jade, my yellow lab a trailer from her crate...it was crude but functional .....but I has some stop to tell me that I should be ashamed to trailer that crude looking trailer behind a CVO.......

So I made a jig out of plywood with the shape that I wanted and using screws and epoxy, I started saying up a new trailer for Jade

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Then I glassed the foam with epoxy and after it hardened, removed it from the jig

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Turned it upside down to glass the inside.

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A look inside after glassing

Note how the inside curves are finished off on the inside also

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After you glass everything you have to start fairing.

This is the time consuming part of the project. Remember wax on..wax off..........well it is proseal on....proseal off....

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Process...
 micro balloons on
sand off
fairing compound on
sand off
fairing compound on
sand off
high build on
sand off
sprayable fairing compound on
sand off
spray primer
wet sand off
PAINT

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Painted with right window in hole

found the windows and door at a marine supplier that was discontinuing the Vetus line

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Left window

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Rear door cut out with Jade trying out her new trailer

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The windows are made for boats and have o ring seals on them. they also have 3 latches and will fold inside for ventilation

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I was going to make the frame for the trailer but Harbor Freight had a 40x48" trailer on sale for $129. I used one of the 20% off coupons that I found in a magazine.

One good thing about the HF trailer is that it includes everything even a Certificate of Origin that makes getting a title easy

One bad thing is that the bearings are an off the wall size and no one makes parts for them

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Get er done so we can see it in a couple of weeks in Richmond!
Mike
 

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Instead of bolting the trailer together I welded it together, ground down the welds, sand blasted, primed , and painted it red.  That is what Kathy wanted

Tried the fenders that came with the trailer package

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didn't like the HF fenders so I made a template from cardboard....well many templates trying to decide

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Was going to make them out of sheet metal and paint them but a buddy gave me a sheet of diamond plate.....so after a little bending