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 Since most of the design was taken care of before this blog there are no thoughts or notes on various ideas.  With the re design to fit the smaller trailer every thing is getting a fresh look.  On the Teadrop forum I stumbled on a thread where marine vinyl was used for the roof skin with a 3/16 head liner.

Originally the plan was to use an anodized aluminum sheet metal.  I felt this could project against the elements the best with proper trimming.  The problem with sheet metal is that in the sizes need it is difficult to handle and with a small single car garage.

With the marine vinyl storage is not a problem it is easy to handle and should provide a great barrier to rain since it can be rolled out in a single piece with out seams.  The down side is if you have a 60″ trailer you will have to stretch the stuff out from its 54″ wide roll.   Finding a 60″ roll is proving to be difficult but with marine grade vinyl available  at JoAnns in the 54″ variety it is hard to pass up.  Especially when you consider that you can sign up for mailings from JoAnns which send out 40% off coupons.

This weekend we found out that the Trailer that we planned on using is no longer available.  Well its still available but the trailer is no longer being shipped and with a 14 hour drive picking it up is not a question.  We were going to use the Red Trailer 5×10 but will go with a 5×8 from Northern Tool.  So it was back to AutoCad to figure out how to take out 2 feet from the design.

Since starting the design I have been looking around to see if there are any better methods since the last go around.  I did find a nice video on Youtube that has a build from start to finish.