Vanagon – Experiment in aluminum

This Friday late afternoon silly project. I want another bridging ladder. I’ve given up on the section of fiberglass waffle board stuff I had been using. It’s heavy, it has large sized grit embedded on top surface ( really annoying to handle) and it really wasn’t thick enough … I think it was only around 34mm thick… would want 40 mm or so.

I thought I’d do an experiment with 1/4” aluminum. Make something about 30“ long and 10” wide.

But I was foiled , weren’t any off cuts large enough ( not going to cut into full sheet for this trial ) . So I scaled down to 22” long.

Ends up being a wee cute little thing. Good enough for a levelling ramp when camping. For scale, holes are 1.5” diameter , and dimpled.

No surprise it’s stiff , short span. I’d like to try again, same width and the Orginal idea of 30” long.

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