How to: DIY Wedge Camper

Any chance you have a way to order for the Portland area? If not, I can plan a trip up your way. I only need (2) 4x8 sheets.

 

You have access to a CNC‽ Jelly

 

Pm me your zip and I’ll see what the shipping is?

 

Thanks for the info, was thinking of going that route, but wasn't sure on the placement of the holes and how to drill the holes accurately. What did you use if you don't mind sharing?

 

First I bought the floor file from ripcord (my way of donating for his effort) then is used a free cad tool to get all the measurements.
Because everything on the panel is a straight edge I used a caliper to scriber the outer line for the holes by just moving it along the edge.
Now I went with a automatic center punch with the right distance from hole to hole (1mm difference over this distance is not really visible, so I didn't care too much about 100% accuracy).
And at the end I just used a step drill for the 5/16 holes.

 

Thanks alot! Yeah I've got the floor and roof cut files and am using fusion 360, guess I just have to figure out how to measure the holes

 

I did them by hand.
The roof ones aren’t too bad. Just measure the center lines of the 80/20, draw some straight lines and drill the holes so they’re spaced out evenly.

the floor ones you could something similar for the aluminum extrusion part and then drill from the flip side for the space frame.

the doors are a bit trickier but there’s no really critical location for the hinges

 

lets pretend the middle of the slot in the extrusion is 0.75in. adjust your caliper to 0.75 and lock it in place with the screw.
now just place one tip of the caliper to the edge (marked red) and pull it along the Edge (yellow marked) this should make a nice parallel line into the Protection foil.

 

I’ll help anyone in the central FL area cut panels. Having and running a makerspace is super useful

 

I wish you were in Southern California!

 

There’s dozens of makerspace in socal. My $50 a month membership fee is awesome. I have so many tools and machines at my disposal.

 

such a good idea for a project like this.

 

Nice work! Looks awesome. I like your simple bracket solution too.

Did you make the roof rack brackets yourself? What are they?

 

So the brackets are made from 2 inch flat I got from Home Depot I think its about 1/8" thick ( it might be 3/16") I just put it in a vice and beat with a hammer until I was happy with it. I used left over bars from my prinsu that I cut up. They are about 7 inches shorter than the width of the camper so thats why the bends were necessary.

I wouldnt stand on it, However it will hold skis, full sheet of plywood, etc.

heres a better close up

 

Do you have close up pictures of how you cut the prinsu?

 

Was debating putting a roof rack on and here is the parts order from Tnutz. If you want to go through 8020.net you can get some angled brackets. Photo is from another TW thread.

 

I basically held it up and cut to fit ive got about 3/4 of an inch clearence

 

All those short beds out there. How far is everyone hanging over the cab? How much deflection are you getting at the cab over portion?

Thanks in advanced.

 

Looks like people are mostly doing 100" tent so it overhangs around 40" or so. I've read that doing the taller extrusion reduces deflection quite a bit but I can't speak from experience... Haven't started the build...

 

From my experience most of the deflection comes from the rubber bushings that the bed is mounted on, with that being said I stood top of the tent and bounced up and down and couldn't get it to contact the edge of my roof rack.