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Here's a little project from last summer.

The hinges rotted off my 7.5 ton tip-top trailer. Replacements from the mfg. had been redesigned w/o removable pins. So I elected to make up a couple extra heavy duty sets. I tore the trailer down, removed/treated rust, applied POR15 and top coated with an industrial enamel, re-wired and re-decked.


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Originally Posted by 16penny
If you put Taco Bell sauce in your ramen noodles it tastes just like poverty
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Originally Posted by 16penny
If you put Taco Bell sauce in your ramen noodles it tastes just like poverty
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Nice work!

Better than new.


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That is a nice job.

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Very well done.

I'm a pretty fair Carpenter but to say my metal working skills are lacking would be a gross understatement.

Fortunately my friend and member here Lonny is a welding professor smile so I try stay on his good side.

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Quite a job, but you took care of it. Nice work.


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Thanks guys, it was quite the little project. The trailer was originally powder coated. Rust creeps under the powder coat, develops heavy scale/pitting and sheads the coating. There's lots of surface area/nooks and crannies on a trailer like this. I also had to replace the two box tubes that the hydraulic cylinders mounted to. They'd rotted from the inside out. Powder coating sucks. I had a good 160 hours in this. Looking back It would have been more cost effective to buy a new trailer, but this one now really is better than new. I'd previously replaced the hub and drums, bearings, swapped in Dexter Nev-r-just brake assemblies, installed 5 new US made rims mounted with 5 new G rated radials. I've got a complete new suspension on a pallet in the barn that it's just about ready for. I have five big trailers, but this one is used most often. It's super handy with the 16,500lb winch mounted to the front. Even with the right equipment, it was a ton of work.


Originally Posted by 16penny
If you put Taco Bell sauce in your ramen noodles it tastes just like poverty

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