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    Home made rear drawer system

    Here is a few pics of the rear drawer system that I have built up over the last few years. The whole system is built using 12mm ply and glued and screwed together with some 42 x 19mm pine bracing in the corners. The whole lot is carpeted in about 5 different shades of grey marine carpet (because it was built over a number of years and I couldn't remember what I used last time)
    The fridge slide and surround (box) are a seperate unit and bolted on using about 10 x 1/4" bolts. Bolted to the left side of the fridge box is a small carpeted box that holds the butane cartridges and are wrapped in wetsuit style stubbie coolers, and the 2 portable gas stoves live directly below. This makes them easy to get at when needed. There is a top shelf that is bolted to the top of the fridge box and to the hand grip that used to be for the 3rd row seat, this has a drop down door to make getting stuff in and out easier.
    There is a 90ah fullriver agm behind the r/h drawer (part of the triple battery setup) and a mega grunt 12v compressor permanently mounted to the r/h side, a 6 fuse distribution box behind the r/h facia panel. A 50amp anderson plug and 6B&S cable joins the rear drawer wiring to the front agm battery under the bonnet.
    I have screwed on a couple of kitchen pantry spice holders to the outside of the actual drawers and these hold all sorts of things and on the back (facing the front of the patrol) I have screwed a cheap hold all from bunnings.
    The drawers are held in by 3 bolts using the existing bolt holes in the floor and with and 3 stainless steel turn buckles and 'd' shackles. This has proved to be very effective in securing this setup and hasn't moved at all during our trips.

    Greg
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    Absolutely brilliant.
    That's the shizzle ! 10/10

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    Thanks LittleJohn. It has taken quite a while to get it to this stage, but when I go to change vehicles I will have a look at recarpeting the whole thing so it looks like one unit not some thing from picasso lol...I have even thought about making a complete new unit out of alloy but I reckon it will get expensive very quickly, but the upside is I should gain some extra space and everything will be neater.

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    Fantastic job mate well done looks like a few frothys have gone into the thinking, planning and building each section

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    Greg, that is one impressive set up you have there mate, i'd struggle to put a set of ikea drawers in mine!!!!!!!! Lol


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    Puts my home made jobbies to shame...LOL. Good job Greg
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tweakedoffroad View Post
    Fantastic job mate well done looks like a few frothys have gone into the thinking, planning and building each section
    Tweakedoffroad, thanks. It took a while to work out what I wanted (and I did have a couple of bourbons in the process ) and I sort of got there in the end, but the grey matter still thinks...is there a better way to this or do that or if I change this maybe it will be better. Unfortunately my brain just doesn't stop, I wish it would it would make my life a lot easier.

    Cheers

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    Quote Originally Posted by clunk71 View Post
    Greg, that is one impressive set up you have there mate, i'd struggle to put a set of ikea drawers in mine!!!!!!!! Lol
    clunk71, thanks mate. Ikea drawers would probably fall apart anyway....

    cheers

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    Quote Originally Posted by NissPat View Post
    Puts my home made jobbies to shame...LOL. Good job Greg
    NissPat, thanks mate. I just took ideas from a lot of places and turned out what you see. I did think about getting a custom setup from one of the manufacturers but what they ask just for the drawers was way out of my price range. So I thought...what the hell, make my own, and so I went a bit nuts with some ply and a jigsaw. I do have a couple of small changes to do to this setup but hopefully that won't turn into a major rebuild (like I normally do LOL).

    cheers

    Greg

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    The mind boggles ,there are so many different ideas out there
    chop here add there can i fit this in or hang that there

    lol mate great job ,and your right the factory
    jobs are way over priced

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