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OK, here's the saga. A couple of years back I bought a CIGWELD 165 "TURBO" mig welder. A 30-165 amp gas/gasless machine. Now I've had a play with it during that time to teach myself to mig weld but...

Hey, is that an air con on your shed roof? That's not fair. There should be a separate category for trailers built in air conditioned workshops! No wonder it is such a good job! Congrats and enjoy...

You don't see to many photo's of home built trailers after we start using them, so here is a few of my 'trailer for long loads' project doing what I designed and built it for! With thanks to this...

Are you going to have wheels to manoeuvre them around and what will the top be of?

My 5 x 8 trailer is all checker plate, floor, sides and tailgates. Around 2mm or so thick. Not really that difficult to sweep out with a good straw broom. Can help things from sliding around in the...

Mikm has said it all ! I did design my trailer for a particular purpose and to suit my own needs. I then had a look at a few commercially made trailers to get a feel for construction methods and...

No urine expected or received!
Your number one tip is good advice for all who post photo's on web sites, me thinks.

Yonnee, I think I got the deluxe model! Any tips?

I've used 'White Knight' hammer tone paint from Bunnings on 2 trailers now and I swear by it. Tough as nails. It does take several weeks to really harden up. Not sure why yours is soft. Great job on...

I think what I'm getting out of this story is can I use a "borrowed" shopping trolley to cart around my welder and bottle?! (photo 6)

Thanks Paul, It might have been easier to put a solid floor in it, cause now I have to explain to all and sundry why it hasn't! Yes, I too have used the batten method of tying down corry and also...

Rego for my tandem was simple enough. All the details of what is required is on the Vicroads website. I rang up vicroads and they gave me a VIN number to stamp on the drawbar (prior to the...

Just had my new tandem weighed for rego purposes and it cost me $10.00 at a public weighbridge. (in Victoria). Tandem came in at 600 kilos. Most 6x4s come in at 3 metres in length. I got fined for...

Yep, been there and there is no chart with f... all help from CIG.
There are a couple of threads dealing with the 165 on this forum.
Have a search for '165' in tags.
Try with .8 wire @ HIGH2, wire...

Hi Mac,
Welding thinner sections of steel can take a bit of practice. I would buy some 3.2 rods and some 5 or 6 mm angle or flat stock and try welding at 120 - 130 amps beads and fillets until you...

After 9 months the trailer is finished and ready to haul all my corrugated iron, timber and steel for the new hobby shed and house extension. The deck is treated pine screwed down to the frame...

Thanks Goldanfish.
I'll take the credit for your renewed interest in the trailer and giving it a new paint job! Obviously the design has stood the test of time if you built it so long ago. Most of...

Hi Goldanfish,
Thanks for your reply. Any chance of a few detailed photos as they would be most helpful to me and i'm sure others on the forum.
Cheers.

Thanks everybody for your detailed replies. It seems this is a project that requires some more thought. They look so simple when you look at them. And here I was thinking a hand winch might be good...

I'll give a probably non useful answer and say if I was towing your trailer at 100 klicks an hour would you be happy sitting up my #### in your car? If the main structure supporting the springs and...

Be mindful the most weight is forward of the axle(s) when mobile.
I like Yonnee's design as it solves the drawbar issue. Not sure if most of the weight is now behind the axle?

I see by your plan the trailers going to be about 4300mm long. With 1500mm drawbar added that's a 5800mm long trailer. Not a small trailer by any means. I'm still working on my trailer that's...

Yes, it's a good day out at Elmore. I go by myself now, after inviting my brother in law who got bored in an hour and wanted to leave. He sprouts about what a great day we had. I don't remember it...

Hey, I was at Elmore field days too! (wednesday) Didn't see you there! Elmore is a very very very bad place to go! :no: Saw a tipper trailer there at a hydraulic display and started thinking what...

Hi chaps, has anyone built a tipper trailer? I built a trailer frame a few years ago for a 6.5 x 4.5 feet box trailer but never finished it. I only got as far as welding the basic frame rails and...

OK, Thanks All.
On closer look the master cylinder does have a concave taper in the bottom.
The bundy tube was pre flared for me with one end with a long tube nut and what must be a ball flare....

Hi Chaps, Can anyone tell me if there is suppose to be an olive between the flare on the bundy tube and the connection on the master cylinder at the coupler. It never came with one and the blokes at...

Some of the larger steel suppliers in Melbourne have what is called 'down graded' steel plate which is cheaper than 1st grade stuff. Might be worth ringing around and asking for down graded steel....

Hi Tony,
Just love red oxide paint.
Had a friend who brush hand painted his car with red oxide, no top coat just red oxide.
Even makes crappy welds look good and stronger!
Just used a brush to...

Not a lot has changed since the last photo apart from the addition of the mudguards. It took longer to paint than to weld it up!
Put the fancy white wheels on today but still have to wire it up and...

Hi Chaps,
Just in the process of painting the new and soon to be finished tandem (only taken me 5 months), and thought I would pass on a painting tip.
Painted the whole frame with a coat of red...

Hi Wannaberacer 60,
Have been building a tandem similar in size to the one your after. (see 'Trailer for long loads' in this forum.)
Size is 4.5m x 1.5m with 1.5m drawbar. 75x50x3mm main frame and...

Decided not to muck around and have put a red/amber on each corner, front and rear AND one on the mudguards as well.
Fn christmas tree!

My trailer build is getting more expensive every time i log onto this site!!!
Rated shackles I never knew about.:doh: Sounds like a good idea.:2tsup:
Anybody lend me some more money?

OK, thanks Yonnee.
You have confirmed what I thought the rules are. My confusion is that most box type trailers have some type of structure to attach these side lamps to at each corner, yet I have...

OK, I know I'm a bit slow :C but VSB Bulletin 1 on trailer lighting is surely meant for a rocket scientist, and I couldn't contact Dr Wernher Von Braun.....so can I ask the common man for some...

If you have a search through this forum you will find a far bit about this subject has already been discussed. It was only a few months ago.
Cheers.

Yes Yonnee, but can he build a decent trailer?!!!!!!!

Bet you get a few second looks when your out on the road!! Looks fantastic and unique. Well done. Please post photo's if you build another.

Took the helmet back to Bunnings and they changed it over no questions asked. I still had the original box but no receipt of proof of purchase. They still changed it over no worries even after 12...

My Techmen auto helmet just died halfway through a weld with resulting flash blindness for a while. It's about 12 months old. It had worked just fine up to then. It then proceeded to work...

Not much to show for the past few weeks, but the hard work on the frame is done. Drawbar and coupler is on and frame is nearly complete. That's it now for 6 weeks till I come back from holidays with...

Forgot to add that 750 kg it's probably got no brakes, that might be a problem for you as the cost to put a braked axle on would be a few hundred.

You can't buy much for $900 these days, but this looks good to me. It's large and the gal must have cost a fair bit too. Easy to weld a few sides on if you want to. Finding time to build a trailer...

I too have a Mikita cut off saw that I bought about 20 odd years ago. Just recently it started to get a bit sluggish, but a new set of carbon brushes and it's good as new. Yes they are noisy but...

OK, Thanks Chaps, more practice next weekend.

Hi chaps, Finally decided to give my mig a go after owning it for 4 years and paying rent on the bottle. Yes, I know I am, but you don't have to say so! At least the bottle was full. After doing my...

Thanks Yonnee. Good advice. Will put the number on the main frame somewheres.
Cheers.

Congratulations. Fantastic job, really looks the part. :2tsup: The best job is the one you do yourself. I was wondering how the rego process went for when I do my trailer. It sounds fairly simple....

Onesteel have a 'customer pick up' brochure on there website. It explains just what your allowed to overhang. For a ute it seems to be 1000mm and a flag from the rear bumper and 1200mm out from the...