Nomadic Gear canopy

[LandyLove]

Sneak peak of our canopy prototype. Finished the basic assembly last night. Final welding this morning, then powdercoat later today. Assembly should be done by tonight.

[renier_c]

Baie nice

[Paul#25]

That looks great Dawie.
Are you going to stay with steel or will you offer a similar one in aluminum?

[LandyLove]

That looks great Dawie.
Are you going to stay with steel or will you offer a similar one in aluminum?

3cr12 with aluminium roof and aluminium extrusions for roof support to act as mointings for accessories as well.

Total weight excluding glass is only 68 kg.

I try to avoid aluminium for various reasons. I have done extensive research and came to the conclusion that Alu is not for me. Main reason is weakening the Alu when welding.

For those concerned about rust, we are also prototyping a Zinc coating with our powder coating process. Apparently that stuf gets so hard you cant even sandblast it off.

[Chopped]

So nice to see this in your offering Dawie.
Congrats. I am sure they will do well.

Looking forward to pics of the finished product.

[JK1]

Do we see you at the show at Zwartkops this weekend?

[LandyLove]

Yes we will be there. Stand 309. Together with Armadillo.

Still grafting to get everything done!

[PsyPhin]

Yes we will be there. Stand 309. Together with Armadillo.

Still grafting to get everything done!

Lekker see you there

[LandyLove]

Need to get this assembled today!

[JK1]

Are we going to see the canopy on the show?

Will hopefully pop in and say hallo.

Enjoy and many sales/orders.

[LandyLove]

Are we going to see the canopy on the show?

Will hopefully pop in and say hallo.

Enjoy and many sales/orders.

Trying our best to get it done for the show.

please pop in!

[ViperR]

Grafting hard there Dawie

[AlexP]

For those concerned about rust, we are also prototyping a Zinc coating with our powder coating process. Apparently that stuf gets so hard you cant even sandblast it off.

This in itself is very interesting.
And I look forward to hearing/ reading more about this process through your posts in the future.

[LandyLove]

Grafting hard there Dawie

You have no idea. Just got home. Built our first canopy and a drawer system in 2 days, powder coated, fitted and the vehicle dropped off at Zwartkops. No jigs, just clamping, holding, eyeballing. Was one hell of a job the past 2 days, 30 hours of graft.

[PsyPhin]

You have no idea. Just got home. Built our first canopy and a drawer system in 2 days, powder coated, fitted and the vehicle dropped off at Zwartkops. No jigs, just clamping, holding, eyeballing. Was one hell of a job the past 2 days, 30 hours of graft.

Cool so will see you and this Canopy Sunday then?
I cant make tomorrow.

[LandyLove]

Cool so will see you and this Canopy Sunday then?
I cant make tomorrow.

That is correct. Just know that it is a prototype, and we will iron out the niggles next week.

[JK1]

Thanks for the chat this morning Dawie. Canopy project looks very nice so far.

For me (not knowing any better) I don't mind a slightly heavier canopy.

I want the thing to last a long time that is my main consideration as far as a canopy is concerned apart from practicality.

[LandyLove]

Thanks Johan. We got very good feedback this weekend. And we have a list of people interrested that will come and see after the corrections are made in 2 weeks.

Was nice meeting you!

[PsyPhin]

I could not find you lol

But my kids were in a tough mood so didnt put extreme effort in

[LandyLove]

Saw your car in the lot. We were really a bit tucked away. But 3 forum members managed to hunt us down.