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Right! To **** with it! I just bought a flatbed trailer on ebay. I was going to hold out and try to build a trailer from scratch but I am a little lost with regard to dimensions, parts, fabrication and lack of workshop and experience etc.

I decided to just buy a kit for now and at least I will have a trailer to mess about with pretty ASAP. In the mean time, I will take measurements of all of the main components like cross members and suspension hangers etc and get a good idea of how these are put together. Then I will start getting parts together and try to mock one up myself. I would like to make my own tri-axle flatbed with a 5th wheel. An A double is it? Sorry, im not a truck driver and only learning all the terminology as I go. I don't actually know the difference between an A double and a B double, I have heard of both.

What I really, really want to build from scratch is a low loader, I think you call them lowboys in the US, but I will need to fab my own frame, I think I can handle that.

What will be more tricky is the suspension. I will need to get suspension, axles and wheels that are suitable for a lowboy, obviously, 1/14 scale but smaller than standard truck and trailer wheels. A few of few have done this before, so any advice is more than welcome.

Also, if anyone has any trailer bits and bobs, accessories or whatnot that you are happy to sell, let me know. I think I would find it easier if I had a working stock of components that I can play around with and figure things out. I would consider anything, leaf springs, king pin, legs, axels - whatever.

All advice and opinions are more than welcome.

Thanks in advance,
Steve.