Arb Truck Sides

[Thesnarlingbadger]

I am just wondering what others have used for the outer sides of a chip box.

I have done the frame work out of box steel and bolted marine-ply to the inside of it but am looking for a sheet to go on the outside to tidy it up and put the sign writting on.

The sides have to be black, as its what works with my logo, Im happy to spend a few hundred on it as it is more important to me that it looks neat and tidy and is done properly. I am going to buy whatever I get as a sheet and cut the angles etc out myself as I'm happy to do as much as I can by myself (gives me a sense of achievement and adds to my skill set).

Now the options I have looked at so far are Perspex and Ally sheets (that will have to be powder coated to make them black I believe).

So what have other members of Arbtalk done in the past? any reason to avoid either of the materials I have mentioned or any other light weight thin materials that people can think of using?

Here are a couple of pictures of the back and the build so far to give you guys a better idea (may have to do this part through the phone as I've never done it on the computer before :-/).

As always thank you in advance.

[Thesnarlingbadger]

[Thesnarlingbadger]

[treequip]

The stuff you need is called aluminium composite sheet, its a plastic sheet with a paper thin ally sheet over it

 

Amari Plastics

 

EDIT

 

That frame is about 50% over strength, 25mm box would have been more than enough

Edited August 29, 2016 by treequip

[Thesnarlingbadger]

The stuff you need is called aluminium composite sheet, its a plastic sheet with a paper thin ally sheet over it

 

Amari Plastics

 

Sounds delightful. I'll look in to it. I could get that in black could I?

[treequip]

Sounds delightful. I'll look in to it. I could get that in black could I?

 

It comes in a range of colours or whatever your sign writer sticks to it

[Thesnarlingbadger]

It comes in a range of colours or whatever your sign writer sticks to it

 

Cool, just looked it up. Looks like the right kind of stuff. Just short on the full length but I can work with that and its coming in at about £165 per side which I can live with. Thanks mate.

[Arctostaphylos uva-ursi]

Looking good. May I ask what welder you are using and whether or not you rate it?

[htb]

How long before appearing in the overloaded thread

[Thesnarlingbadger]

Looking good. May I ask what welder you are using and whether or not you rate it?

 

The welder (person) was my old man, The actual welder was an arc welder, with an investor ill find out the make etc when I next pop over. He's pretty happy with it. But we decided to weld the frame off the van as we wanted to avoid any mishaps.