Two plywood boxes, sliding one
over the other, open up to make a
truck camper that sleeps four
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two full-length bunks. Plastic side curtains button around the bunks to enclo the en-tire camper.How to plan yours. Make careful mea-surements of your truck box to determine the size of the unit you'll build. Some of the dimensions given apply only to my truck (a 1965 Dodge six-pasnger pickup).Find the minimum inside height by at-ing the tallest in the family on a board across the wheel wells. Most truck beds have at least four feet between wheel wells.This lets you u a full sheet of plywood as the floor. Test-position all the main struc-tural pieces after cutting. Be sure there's room to rai the tailgate.How to build it. First, lay out and cut the lower ends and side pieces, using B-B, con-crete-form-grade fir plywood. U the flat-test panels you can find. Don't cut the door openings yet. To the end pieces, attach the guide strips (battens) that align the upper ction for raising.Asmble the ends and the lengthwi structural pieces of ½" and ¾" plywood. This is easier to do with the ction turned up-Continued f you've been figuring that the cost of a truck plus a camper is a bit steep, or you're already a pickup-truck owner but the bud-get won't stretc
h to a camper, here's a collapsible plywood unit you can build yourlf. Just follow the blueprint on the following pages.
Opened up, this camper has over six feet of head room, lots of living space, and sleep-ing places for four. Clod, and lowered for minimum wind resistance, it's easy to drive, yet has enough head room to at pasngers while traveling. Removing the rear cab window makes easy access.Two bumper jacks rai or lower the up-per ction, and hinged sides unfold to give I By A. S. RYAN
乡镇财政所Support raid roof inside with flip-up braces, out-side with bolted-on safety brackets. Stairs and bunk supports store inside camper when not in u.
Rai the roof, using bumper jacks and extension supports at each end. Top door opens out, bottom door inward, to let you exit over tailgate if necessary.
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W i t h roof raid, facilities in camper are readily available. Up front, Mom gets lunch going.
Set up for the night by opening out the side bunk and roof panels and bracing them with conduit. Lower braces rest on hooks that are bolted to truck.Enclo the camper by attaching plastic or canvas curtains around side bunks. Snap buttons hold them curely. Windows open to provide ventilation.
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To determine the size of your camper, measure your truck's dimen-sions as shown above. The standard pickup can sleep four, plus one in the cab (below). Next month, plans for kitchen facilities will show how to build a table that lowers to make a cross bunk.
我亲爱的爸爸side down. U 6d finish nails and a good waterproof glue, and make sure all corners are square. Glue-nail the floor in place.
Cut out a door in the lower ction. Put a temporary brace across the opening (save the cutout for a door). Cut out the truck-cab access window. Attach doublers to lower sides, as shown in blue-print. Attach the fold-down sides to the lower ction with five 3" hinges or a piano hinge.
Put foam gaskets between the camper body and bunk ctions to limit vibration, and u spring-loaded hooks to hold the sides up.
Raising the roof tree. As-mble the roof by support-ing the upper end pieces in vertical position (braces-nailed temporarily do it), and glue-nailing two-by-four roof beams in place. Cover with ½" exterior plywood, using one full panel at center and a smaller curving panel on each side. To bend the, cut lengthwi grooves every 3/8" beginning about 1" from the edge. Make test cuts and bends on scrap. Glue-nail the panels to the end pieces and the beams.
Attach the two-by-two molding at roof sides, bev-eled as shown in the drawing. Cut the wind-deflector cross-piece at front to fit the curve of the cab, leaving about an inch between them.
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Cut out the upper rear opening (saving the cutout for the door), and screw an angle iron across the top of the doorframe to stiffen it for jacking. Drill a hole in the center of the iron to receive a stud screwed into the top of the jack extension to keep it from slipping off. (A hole in one of the cleats on t产品营销策划方案
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With top lowered for travel there's enough head room to sit inside camper. Six-pasnger truck shown below sleeps two in its cab.
