Sure has been a bit of effort John in the design of those ladders, look great and very functional.
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Sure has been a bit of effort John in the design of those ladders, look great and very functional.
Chaps, I've welded up a small barn door for my Y61 GU Patrol, but now trying to figure out the connections to the door. The frontrunner one has three riv nuts down the bottom and two up top - my reckoning is that the top two go through two layers of door steel (where it's folded double) and three go through what I think is a single layer of panel steel.
Does anyone have any experience with these fitments being enough for normal use? 100kg person on the ladder carrying stuff?
I'm not good enough with the welder to do a folded over hook type thing on the top (which I'd prefer of course) - unless anyone has some particularly easy ideas to execute.
G’day CSN61 Mate!
If understanding correctly you’ve made a door ladder for your small barn door?
Rivnuts/Nutserts are strongest in shear lateral weight forces for your application but not so great with outward pull forces in such light panel metal.
Some beautifully engineered designs above but first things first check your barn doors for cracks looking at their opened edges at approximately the glass line bottom.
Strengthen that OEM fault first is my nuffy opinion as you’ll probably find the spare wheel bigger door already has a crack from only days out of the factory :-(
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Once watched a Stubborn Legend with a seriously buggered hip load all of his family’s touring lightweight gear up top off a simple 8kg thingo similar to this:
http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forum...2020/12/83.jpg
Think it was smartly/quickly mounted to his steel aftermarket tyre/jerry can rear bar swing arms but also doubled as a a table family cooker station table under their awning, one less table to carry[emoji106][emoji106]
These GU’s hit legal GVM very quickly touring unless you have awesome aluminium welding skills like JFF45 Mate [emoji106][emoji106]
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I think "awesome" is stretching it a bit :)
You’re too humble JFF45 Mate!
Ingenious design pictures above may not reflect to your good self them beaut skills but I’ve thankfully seen over the years even betterer sneaky ‘truly awesome’ pictures you’ve kindly added whilst assisting blokes [emoji106][emoji106]
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