Hi...
Many things happened since I wrote last time.
When I finished the trailer, the (powder) painter told me that it will not be possible to powder it, because of part of anodized Aluminium. Nice... Why didn't he tell me such things during my last visit ?
OK, so I went to another (wet) painter. Last time he told me he would paint it for 60EUR. After a short look he started...
"Hmmm... - Must be sanded and cleaned, primed, painted, etc... One hour costs about 140EUR NET, minimum 180EUR ... Plus VAT..."...
I could feel that he really didn't want to have the job...
Grrrrrr..........
OK, back home... Two alternatives...
1. Paint it by hand.... No really good idea... I'm not a good painter and I do not really have a place to paint and to let it dry...
2. Replace all anodized parts by blank Alu... But that are nearly all parts...
OK, alternative 2 has won...
The last 2 weeks I started to rebuild the complete rear part, exchanged the body profiles and replaced the load floor. In the mqntime, it's no modification of an existing trailer, it's a complete new rebuild...
I also took the chace to modify the rear part. The last version had the disadvantage, that the small LED holders also held the traverses. But that would mean that they must stay in there during painting, but they should not be painted.
Now the traverses are hold be screws and the bulb holders are in between the middle and lower traverse. The left will be the backdrive light and the right one will be the fog backlight.
After all was done I disassembled all parts and started to sand and to clean them. Finally I got this puzzle to solve again:
Yippiee, let's get ready to rumble...
BTW: It's a very nice job to work with small screws wearing latex gloves to avoid dabs...
But after some hours I got this final result...
Today I went to another powder painter and he promised to paint it until Thursday...
Let's wait and see...
Now I have to solder theLEDs and I also have to build a carrier box for it, Friday the Truck and the Trailer will go to a fair....
I'll post some photos...