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! Gracias!

Thanks!

Thanks for the comment. However, the difficulty in automating this door is not the raising and lowering but the unlocking, pushing open the first few inches/centimetres and then pulling shut and locking.

I’m sorta surprised that those contact details are still good, businesses tend to move on and I posted this quite a few years ago. Thanks for your compliments.

Yeah, it was hit or miss at best. Interpreting the wiring instructions so that I could have two switches, mounted next to each other and using a common power feed, control fans that are spaced 20 feet apart almost did my head in. It was much simpler once I understood that a single switch can control any number of fans. The fans are fed power directly from a breaker as are the switches…fan operation is via a radio signal from the switch. I wanted the ability to control the fans independently so I kept both switches. Getting the west fan paired with the west switch and vice versa was the really difficult part. The fan not being paired needed to be disconnected from power.

I think you can expect to save 85-90% especially since you can probably reuse the tracks and one pair of rollers on the sides.

Positive. The negative was bonded to the frame.

I know, right?

Technically, yes; at least as much as it ever was. However, the front sub-chassis will now be supporting everything except the rear wheels and disconnecting it won't help gain access to much of anything that can't already be readily accessed. There will be a lot of room around the engine without doing anything and I will have an engine cover over the top should I want to work on the ignition or fueling.

Thanks Bob. My back seems right already but I'm following doctors orders and limiting exertion until six weeks post op has elapsed. On your point of restoring the RV, I really am a fan of the effort that went into the design. Time has proven that it was a solid chassis. Having said that, there isn't much restoration happening. This is a reconfiguration into something else.

Thank you for the encouragement!

Thanks Rog! All the best.

How did you know? I just spoke to a kid to tend the lawn for the next couple months. Thanks for the encouragement!

You and me both! Thanks for the kind wishes.

I’ll try but it’s hard not to pick up a tool out there.

My wife is making sure I follow doctors orders! Thanks for the thoughts!

Your door can be pretty light duty but I guess you'll need to take weather into account if it is an external door. Wind loading can be a significant strain but the size you're talking about isn't much bigger than a normal door into a house. Flashing around the edges will help keep wind out. Hinges? I just used barn hinges at the top (2x) and good heavy door hinges in the middle (5x). I don't think any hinges will fail for a door that size anyway but still, take care that the fasteners you're using are secure as I think that would be the first failure point. You can probably get away with 35x70 wood for the door frame too.

Thank you very much! I’ve suffered a medical set back. I need to put out and update because my movements are restricted for at least six weeks.

I didn’t know that the front had differences to the car. I’ll need to look into that, thanks.

Thanks for that. My dad showed me how to make them in the ‘70’s.

I don’t really need to know how things work, I just need to know someone who does.

I’m wish you were there to help me work it out!

That would work if I only had to deal with the angle between the column and the box but it would actually make it worse in regards to the angle of the column in regards to the driver. The column is just too long. I’ve come up with a plan to shorten the column which has advantages of allowing me to reduce the angle between column and box as well as allowing better placement of the box to the frame.

Slow but rough, as long as it works.

I’m just glad I don’t need to make a living doing this.

If I had to do it again I would come up with something to keep the beam from sliding off of the pallet and to keep the pallet from sliding off of the forks.

Thank you 😋

Thank you very much!. Allergies are really screwing with me but I hope to get back to work soon.

It is a hand-me-down that I really didn’t want but it’s become my go-to drill now.

It’s as simple as the middle hinges (pivots) are 1/2 distance between top and bottom pivots. The complications arise from the top and middle pivots being outside while the bottom pivot is probably inside a wall that is N inches thick and probably some distance above the floor. You might be able to work out your X Y Z locations by mocking up a two dimensional proof of concept using some of the structure material you intend to use for the actual door…just on one edge of the door opening. A successful design will shut flat while having a balanced wedge when fully open.

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Up till now I’ve been lucky and many things just worked themselves out. The steering now…sheesh, it’s really throwing me for a loop.

Glad I could help

let me know how it goes, good or bad!

It was already ruined. I’ve given a new life…it’s alive…ALIVE! Besides, I also needed the rear bogies.

the bearing just outboard the big bull gear? And you’ve used a puller…I mean a proper puller? My “puller” was the wrong tool for the job and I acknowledge I was lucky the bearing came free. If even a puller made for this job doesn’t work the bearing may need to be cut off. You might want to try heat onto the inner bearing race but that has risks of damaging everything around it. Sorry, I don’t know other options.

Welcome! And thank you.

Thanks for watching! hope it doesn’t change your opinion too much when you see this is not a renovation.

? Apologies but I don’t understand the question.

Thanks! It took three tries to get a shed like this, I think I arrived at a good compromise between need, desire and budget.

I’m not going to say it was perfect but the various contact points are as close to straight and true as I can get using beat-up second hand material. There is no flipping in the forecast. Several others have wondered about this and it’s in the back of my mind but the priority is just to build a functioning vehicle. You’ve watched all 20 episodes? Sheesh, thanks…that’s over 10 hours. If I had T-shirts I’d send you one.

What you’re seeing is the way I work through problems. Not making plans means I’m free to just react. Thanks for watching!

Thanks! I have a memory of Wexford from 2002, my future wife and I met up in Ireland for a holiday. Wexford was a waypoint between Dublin and Waterford. Unfortunately I don’t think we stopped through on the best day, it was cold, windy and overcast.

I’m not up for a project like that but thanks for the idea. Thanks for watching!