In my last post in this series, I talked about replacing the wood at the bottom of the sides in the back of the trailer. Here's a link to that post.
https://steemit.com/trailer-repair/@amberyooper/restoring-a-tin-tent-trailer-part-3-continuing-the-wood-work-on-the-lower-back-end-of-the-trailer
In this post I'll show you how I replaced the crappy plywood repair on the sides in the back of the trailer to get a better structure on the curve at the back of the side walls. The plywood pieces that I replaced had been made with 2 pieces of half inch thick plywood that were screwed together to make a more or less 1 inch thick piece. Replacing those pieces was not part of my plan originally, but I needed to take them out to fix some of the aluminum skin where the roof meets the side walls on the back curve.
Once I pulled them out and looked at the way they were made, I decided to make new ones that were better built and would fit better. I used 2 pieces of 3/4 inch thick plywood instead of the half inch that they used to make each side. These pieces are basically a triangle with a curve on the long side. I used one of the old pieces as a template of sorts to get the curve approximately right, and then fitted the pieces as necessary.
After fitting one piece to the space that it was going into, I cut out a second piece that was the same, and then glued and screwed them together. Then I started cutting out the center of the triangle to make it less heavy. I used a hole saw to drill the holes for the corners, and then used the saber saw to cut out the rest of the center.
Here's the piece with the center cut out.
This is how the piece fits in the back wall of the trailer. I had also previously cut the lower curve pieces from treated wood, but I forgot to document that with pictures. You can see them in place below the triangles on the lower edge.
Here's the other side. I also added a couple of 2X4s across the back to hold the tin of the back roof at that time, although I ended up taking them back out as the project got more complicated.
In my next post on this project, I'll talk about extending the steel frame rails of the trailer out beyond the back end of the body. The trailer originally didn't have a bumper on the back, or a place to mount one due to the steel frame not extending out beyond the body, so I decided to change that.
That's all I have for this post, thanks for stopping by to check it out!
