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plus, you cant go out and buy a nice homecooked meal... cant beat it.

 

I go out half the time. The other half, I am eating crackers, or just starving.

 

home cooked meal? I hate cooking. I just rush through anything I cook. Even oatmeal.

 

this is my life:

 

when I was single, I used to LIVE off of crockpot meals..... set it up before work, come home to a delicious meal after work. haha

 

I love my crockpot for that exact reason. I also cook in quantity, so I only have to cook 1 or 2 times during the week and just eat leftovers the rest of the time.

 

Got my shell rack cut and mock bolted up today. Need to hit up store again and get more cone nuts and bolts. Plus either t slot nuts or t bolts for the feet to mount to my track. Apparently Thule makes some that are pretty good but I should be able to find what I need locally. I cut mine 56 length and 48 width and running 5 cross bars with 3 mounting feet each side. Might be over kill but I can always adjust later.

 

Do it man it’s easy. Plus it looks good is cheap and you can make it fit your needs.

 

To mount my rack to the tracks, I took an angle grinder to some spring nuts until they fit in the channel. Took awhile, but it worked.

 

that looks awesome.... where did you get the writeup for this? I'm curious to read up on it.... what kind of weight can it handle?

 

its for a cap

 

but couldnt you modify this to bolt to some bed bars or bed channel and use this as a lo pro rack for an RTT or something

 

i guess you could. Is that what youre going to do? maybe you should do a writeup for it

 

I mean theoretically... it doesnt seem TOO hard.... I may make that my winter project after I get these coilovers, sliders, and snorkel installed

 

I just run a table fan. The white noise helps me sleep, and masks the sounds of cars going down the road with their thumping music on.

 

someone beat me to it: $100 DIY Bed Rack

http://expeditiongeorgia.com/diy-100-universal-truck-bed-rack/

 

A lot. In the thread, a guy had his RTT on, forgot it was up there and went into a low parking garage. Completely ripped the cap off the truck, but left the RTT attacked to the cap. Needless to say, it's extremely strong.

Another guy adapted this to his double cab. Looked just like a prinsu, just a fraction of the price.

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/ermbs-d-i-y-rack-system-build.433500/

 

great! thanks for the link! I am thinking I will build my own Expo Bed rack... eventually for an RTT, but in the mean time, just to hold tools, hi lift, rotopax, waterport, awning, etc.....

 

Good luck finding work from home in IT. Employers in this area just don't offer it and seem shocked that they can't find someone who will commute into DC for 45k/year....

 

what are you going to Expo??