After being together for 44yrs, we finally have a brand new lounge.    We've always had hand me downs or 2nd hand ones from market place or gumtree and being at an age where the body is not as pliable due to crumbling knee and hip joints for my other half, I thought stuff it, why shouldn't we have a bit of comfort in our life after a lifetime of struggling and sacrifice.   

Foo

If you ask me, new caravans are stupidly expensive and not worth the money, especially when the build quality is chit in many of them! 

My brother and a cousin both bought new vans $95,000-$108,000 and both have had warranty issues on their first trip and subsequent trips after that. 

Foo

Good to see you back in the game mate. 

https://www.caravancampingsales.com.au/editorial/details/x-series-and-sunland-caravans-enter-administration-152342/

More gone

So True......

Ive replaced the baskets in most of my fridges with corflute plastic sheeting. After having a stubby cap wear a hole in one of my engels evap plate basically making it useless I started using the 3mm coreflute sheeting like they make signs out off. I just cut it to fit in the base and then another cut and folded to fit around the sides. Its easy to ut and bend and doesnt affect how fridge works.

Saw mention yesterday concerning Nanotubes.

They're usually made out of carbon, & so are referred to as CNTs, as C is the designation for carbon.

Chinese researchers have been experimenting with making them out of copper, rather than carbon, so to differentiate from CNTs, they've decided to stick with the chemical designation for copper: Cu

You really didn't think about that one, did you?

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11433-013-5387-8 (Could be called NSFW!)

So I guess we'll see you in the Northern Territory!

Quote from: ADTradie on June 24, 2026, 05:33:05 PMIt may sound environmentally unfriendly, but I would burn the plastic off in a cool fire, wire-brush or rust treat it and then get it powder-coated. Or if I was totally honest, I'd be asking, "do I really need to have everything in a basket?' Plenty of things go in home fridges and freezers not in a basket.  

The main attraction of the baskets is you can pack them up in the house and carry them out to the car in one trip.
Plus the smaller basket keeps more fragile things like eggs separate up on the shelf away from any rogue beer cans

But I like the burning idea - sounds quicker than the wire brush

Quote from: nab on June 22, 2026, 10:56:02 PMForward fold, as in composite body and canvas roof/walls?

Check the storage available. My mate had a forward folding Opus and the internal storage was dismal.

Yes, composite body and canvas roof/walls.

Thanks guys. We're still investigating this. Plenty of storage is a common issue with both forward fold and rear fold camper trailers. A lot positive is to be said for the good storage volume in the older style side-fold soft-floor campers. But we know how things have progressed with the search for the perfect camper trailer when people want all the conveniences of home.