Building a Pop-Up Roof For The Camper Trailer - Part 4 

Brother im a retired Welder and Brake Operator!!!! Mad Respect For Your Skills!!!!

That first part was such humor! Gas strut calcs is a head spinner. But here is my method- weigh in kg the roof at the point you are going to lift it at. Add25% . Divide by 2 cos you have two stuts and then multiply by 10 to get the answer. so 40 kg at the mount point, plus 25% is 50kg. divide by 2 and multiply by 10 gives you 250Nm struts x2.

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Love your dry sense of humour, mad me belly laugh !

Another absolute gem of an episode! That roof system is excellent, and like the rest of the construction, bulletproof!

Mooi gedink en welgedaan.

I built a roof rack for my old Gen 1 Pajero and had copied a system that my Sprite swift had. Unfortunately I had sold the caravan a few years before I got the Pajero. Long story short, those air struts and I had a long fight and I shelved the idea. The struts worked well on a home built trailer I acquired that has a lid that I can barely lift. Seeing your video has given me renewed energy to build that pop up roof rack. My pajero has a sliding roof so that's why I want a pop up roof rack.

The roof itself is not applicable for my use - but your humor. love it 👌

Absolutely love your work. Thanks for sharing. Keep going

That design is genius. Thanks for explaining in detail. Keep the videos coming.

Congratulations for solving that lifting roof. I know it takes hours planning something like that from scratch.

Wow. Impressive

Exactly what i was looking for, thanks for sharing man

Great video, thanks for sharing!

Keep up the good work! That is a huge project for sure 👍

Excellent piece of engineering!

Lovely work

Awesome buddy ....you are so smart and talented....nice job👏👏👏

Got my thumbs 👍 up. Thanks for the video

Great build Marius! I think I might give it a crack.

Amazing Thank you for sharing

Great job sir!

Clever man! Great job.

Es usted todo un crack¡¡¡.. un verdadero genio... gracias por su video¡¡¡ saludos desde Mexico ¡¡¡

very good your videos. I'm building a camper and the information is very important.

Awesome build man. Crafty

good workmanship & idea with innovation

I like your hinge design. I'll need to borrow that for my project...

Absolute genius I’ve only watched this one but I liked and subbed big thumbs up from the UK 🇬🇧 my friend keep up the amazing job you & your wife are doing perfect team 👌🏼

hello , great job, congrats from chile, and take care

Great video! Wow that is going to be amazing when it's done.

Hi mate am from UK 🇬🇧 just watching your videos on the camper roof OMG 😮 you didn't half make it hard for yourself well over thought all you Needed to do was borrow a gas strut a one of your cars use 3×2 and some bathroom scales to see what the pressure was and on the back end of roof 😊😊use bed mattress spring pistons they are the same as what camper van retailers use but quarter of price 2 for £30 ebay but if you didn't want a slope you could use the wood and scales trick😂

Hello, great work!

nice project!

Coming to this video late. Newton-Meter makes sense in terms of the force required to open and close the roof as its a rotational measurement of force. Looking to do something similar but simpler and on a smaller scale. I think it will make my life a lot easier if I place each gas strut vertically in the corner lifting straight up.

Obrigado amigo estou montando um camper pop up na duster oroch estou quebrando a cabeça no teto pop up mais vendo seus videos me ajudou vou tentat fazer como o seu obrigado. Thanks friend I'm setting up a pop up camper on duster oroch I'm breaking my head on the pop up roof but watching your videos helped me I'm going to try to do it like yours thanks.

Top man 🤝

Awesome

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Volg jou videos. Lyk baie goed!!

Baie nice👍🏻

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Hi Maruis Dankie ..ons kyk lekker saam in Brisbane

I watched you build the top for a pop up camper. would it be posible to to do the same thing to the top of an SUV. The consept is to stand up inside my SUV. ?

The n•M rating is quantified in an SAE spec, like water column, it’s how many inches that amount of vaccum can lift water in a pipe with a 1 inch ID, at a certain elevation….. all of these numbers are examples. But I believe that’s how it’s done.

Sensational job so far and thanks for taking the extra time to video and explain what you are up to. I am contemplating attempting a similar project. How did you go with the plans and what thickness steel are you using. Cheers Luke. 🍻🍻

I dig this build! Going to be great fun. In between parts of this project, maybe you could do a little video on what it took to design in SketchUp? Did you have any background in using 3d modeling software beforehand? Thanks in advance!

Hey, awesome video. Was wondering if you'd mind sharing the sketchup for those H hinges, or the dimensions, they'd work well for what I'm building.

Well done on a stunning project. can you please share the scetsh-up file with me? i like to build a similar camper for us...

Hi Marius. Long time listener first time caller. Really enjoy this series of vidoes. Was just wondering where you got the fibreglass sheet? Ive been looking for it but it doesn't seem to be a standard stock item at any hardware's? Thanks Andrew

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100Nm is 10 Kilo push. If you have 4 then you have 40 kilos of pushable force.

think of it like this. 100n is 100kg of pushing power. Pressure wise, mentally imagine the inside of the tube, the piston will have a base that has the pressure behind it, The piston base is a little less than 1 square inch but for simplicity lets call it 1 square inch.. To push 100kg you need to put in about 1422 PSI of gas. Think about how much air rushes out of a regular compressor at 140psi... Its more complex than this but to work out the gas strut you need basically take the weight of your roof and divide by the number of struts then add on a little as wiggle room Angle of strut matters and is roughly a percentage loss based on the angle within 90 degrees. If the strut was 90 degrees its not pushing at all. if its 45 degrees its about 50% pushing pressure. This is all super simple maths and assumptions, its more complex but this will get you by in most situations. It would have been funny to see you blasted, its good you can have a laugh, ive seen people have their skin torn off from pressure and oil.. Thx for the vid

curious why you need the hinge? could you have done it with 4 struts and chains on each corner to limit how high it would go? thank you for sharing...

Can I ask how long it took to weld and how much it cost to have your own welding setup?

Great build. Why didn’t you use aluminum for all the skins? Just wondering. I’ve been thinking of doing something like this.

Hi, Do you have drawings for the roof build. if so what is the price.

can you sent the drawing for pop up roof of camper tuck to me ?

More Marius Hoe ver is jou wa? Gaan jy dalk nou n video opsit van finale produk Veral die poptop! Mooi dag!!

Midag Maeius Hoe gaan jy jou tent inryg? Het jy dalk al so ver gekom

4:32 That's what she said

Haha you lost me at the Nm part 🤯🤯🤯

Hi Marius Waar in SA is jy, as dit moontlik is kan jy my asb laat weet ek wil jou kontak ivm die bou van die roof system.

Marius hoe maak ek kontak met jou?

i like your shit

your lucky its only nitrogen gas , i had an empty LPG tank in my car as dual fuel, it hant been used in years, i took an angle grinder to the straps, with my dad and a weed sprayer full of water, got the straps cut successfully, then as i was turning the grinder off with a cut off wheel, my middle finger grazed the wheel thankfully only skin deep behind the nail bed, trip to the doctor and tetanus vaccine and bandage i go back home to finish the job, taking the bolts out of the tank, unknowingly opening the valve assembly, thankfully it was only compressed air and Ethyl Mercaptan witch is the additive for the odorant added to make LPG (propane) and natural gas smell to detect for leaks, so the rest of the day all i could smell and taste was the Ethyl Mercaptan witch was like eating a whole bulb of raw garlic, in my nasal passage and back of my mouth, lots of mouth was and a couple of nasal flushes,,, if it was full of gas i could have been overcome by the gas and could have not been around from asphyxiation i have watched this whole series on the build, i must say a well planed build and from designed in CAD to the full build is what makes me want to keep watching intrigued to see how the final idea has come to life

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Too complicated