Slide out Rear Storage draws

[OzJeeper]

Still working on a website for the camping box I have for the rear of the ZJ. It will be "up" this week (promise).
It's basic but works very well. The design can be used for an XJ as well. Measured them both and it will fit OK.

Thursday night??? Look in the Fabrication Section for the link

[Grant]

Here a 3/4 way finished pix with fridge fitted
http://210.10.49.162/gallery/Grant/reardeck

[Gildo]

Grant, the set up is looking good, is it carpeted on top or painted? little hard to tell from the pics.
Did you use runners for the drawers or not?
What are the sizes- ie, what can you fit in there?
Steel frame sounds like a good idea, how have you fixed it down?
What was the influence to use MDF?
Ive found it dosent resist any moisture no matter how well its coated (carpet only makes it worse) and dosent handle any kind of movement around fixing points- screws and nails pull out, glue comes unstuck and the material itself disintergrates under most dynamic loads.

[Grant]

All done in Outdoor carpet got it from Bunnings $30.00 a meter roughly and the draw sits on alloy sliders to eliminate wasted space Have a short vid clip of it completed but no where it host it
I have all the MDF bolted with 5/32nd stainless bolts with domed nuts so no problems and I mostly used to laminated MDF so not a moisture problem and where it is not laminated I have used a fibreglass resin to seal the wood eliminates any moisture ingress.

[Grant]

Here are the dimensions for the draw unit that I have made this is just the frame itself
40 5/8 inches wide
26 5/8 inches deep
9 1/2 inches high
see drawing sorry about the poor quality

[OzJeeper]

MMMhhhhh.....

MDF not a good fella for making outback stuff mate. Seen him workloose, pull apart and other crappy stuff.

Prefer plywood mate - much stronger!

[Grant]

I used what I had at the time when it is totally right will have mate manufacture the whole unit out of fibreglass. After all what is use of having a fibreglasser mate if ya don,t use him. He lives in Donald and gets round in a Chief.