azzurro Posted January 3, 2019 Share Posted January 3, 2019 Coffee and rolled ice cream are both pretty time consuming and messy to make. Be surprised how much the demand crosses over too When busy you will need min 1 staff for each station and maybe a person taking orders - something to keep in mind when arranging the layout. Limit the flavours and have add ons like fancy cones and sauce/toppings for max revenue in min marginal time. Iced coffee (scoop, shot + ice) is also something people seem happy to pay too much for. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
64valiant Posted January 3, 2019 Author Share Posted January 3, 2019 Yeah plan on doing cold drinks as its quite an easy product to store and keep cool in a couple of small fridges, not much cleaning down involved in that one. The coffee is for down the track when money is recouped and in the colder months for when ice cream and cold drinks isn't selling in the middle of winter should be able to offer a hot coffee instead of a cold ice cream. Edit: I don't plan on running this my self I will be putting staff in it as I do upholstery and enjoy doing that. Unless I'm heading to a car show and I'll be there anyway. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azzurro Posted January 3, 2019 Share Posted January 3, 2019 Tortron is right. Easy set up and clean down is impotant but having a layout favourable to being able to keep the thing clean(ish) and not get in each others way while its pumping is the difference between having fun creaming it and a chore thats not worth it. Can i have a double with passionfruit and hokey pokey in a waffle cone please 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
64valiant Posted January 3, 2019 Author Share Posted January 3, 2019 sorry don't do waffle cones. keeping it simple don't want to have to much to clean up after all and wont have space to keep them in my small caravan. I'll keep it sort. not going to share my hole business plans, layout and ideas here mainly the caravan building part. the rest you guys can think about and tell yourselves you would do it different. anyway. pretty good day building caravan and grinding curtain. started on the floor after the curtain and got around the inside on the wheels all sorted @flyingbrick pointed out caravan 2 but meh then i decided to lay it all out gotta clean up the ends in the morning and then get welding and figure out where and how im going to brace the floor. steel and tube done open till the 7th so gotta keep myself occupied for a bit before i can buy the steel for the axle. 2 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nvmyvl Posted January 3, 2019 Share Posted January 3, 2019 How much do you need for the axle?? I got a couple of lengths in my shed of 50 x 50 x 6mm wall.. perfect for welding stubs into 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
64valiant Posted January 3, 2019 Author Share Posted January 3, 2019 11 hours ago, nvmyvl said: How much do you need for the axle?? I got a couple of lengths in my shed of 50 x 50 x 6mm wall.. perfect for welding stubs into Oh man. That would be so legit. After something around the 1.8 - 2 meter mark. Let me know how you get on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nvmyvl Posted January 4, 2019 Share Posted January 4, 2019 2 hours ago, 64valiant said: Oh man. That would be so legit. After something around the 1.8 - 2 meter mark. Let me know how you get on. Hey I got 3 lengths @ 2000mm here.. got surface rust on it, but that's easy to clean off.. your welcome to a piece if you still want it.. I'm in Drury, so may be able to get it on somebody going down your way, if somebody is.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
64valiant Posted January 4, 2019 Author Share Posted January 4, 2019 1 hour ago, nvmyvl said: Hey I got 3 lengths @ 2000mm here.. got surface rust on it, but that's easy to clean off.. your welcome to a piece if you still want it.. I'm in Drury, so may be able to get it on somebody going down your way, if somebody is.. @sentra when are you back from your holiday? wanting to come down and drink some beers and over heat my welder and pick up a lenght from this gc? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sentra Posted January 4, 2019 Share Posted January 4, 2019 yup but--- im in no hurry as off atleast untill the 16th so will be down for a few days between now and then - if your needing it asap there may be better candidates. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 64valiant Posted January 4, 2019 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 4, 2019 day two of caravan floor done done done. some how i have made it a little smaller than on my drawings but meh i'm not going to lose sleep over it also ended up welding a mates exhaust together and drank some waikato. Hopefully tomorrow i will pay a visit to @nvmyvl and grab the 50x50 for the axle. also brought four 14 inch steelies from @Geophy for 30 bucks and i got my white wall tyres back from @MRWEST after lending them to him about 2 years ago so he could get a cert on his imp. so good is good. hell yeah 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
64valiant Posted January 5, 2019 Author Share Posted January 5, 2019 shot to @nvmyvl for the section of box. my stubs where a little to big for the inside of it so i gave old @Geophy a call and asked if he had a lathe close by. turns out it was only just down the road from his home, so across town i went. as you see here the shaft it to large for the hole (thats what she said) his big machine, it ford the stuff to make swarf one done, one more to go yeah ill weld that in. now that its welded in i shull drill down and plug well this bitch as well all done. thing keeps on popping the multi box fuse, but that im not going to worry about as i know its getting all the heat in it. things bloody smoking hot which im happy about so im currently waiting for it to cool down so i wont set anything on fire while it rest on my bench at the other end. i also got to hot so i went to mcds and got a double strawberry sunday. so good. 7 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cletus Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 Is it going to be slammed enough with a straight axle? 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
64valiant Posted January 5, 2019 Author Share Posted January 5, 2019 time will tell. worse case ill just have to bag it i guess....... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
64valiant Posted January 5, 2019 Author Share Posted January 5, 2019 looking up caravan chassis to see before i cut my peace to see if i should be cutting it and tapering it further back under the caravan. google says yes. kinda like this i came across this sweet caravan as well. cause we all like pictures 8 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
63Ragtop Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 Wonder if the vw could pull such a thing? Fuckin Sweet! I can't wait see how yours turns out bro, could maybe use the outer edge of a bug rear fender like above? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tortron Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 They used to pull big things with those roof mounted tow hitches. Would make for a funny shaped caravan, but easy to park 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
64valiant Posted January 5, 2019 Author Share Posted January 5, 2019 1 hour ago, 63Ragtop said: Wonder if the vw could pull such a thing? Fuckin Sweet! I can't wait see how yours turns out bro, could maybe use the outer edge of a bug rear fender like above? Its certainly built like brick outhouse. Tomorrow its going to take more than me to roll it over onto its two wheels. Maybe over engineered it cause well I'm not an engineer. But hey better safe than sorry right? I got my main two rails cut and laying on it, and then I had a offcut left over and draped that out the front for the draw bar. I thought it looked to long but I then went to @Archetypes place and messured his car trailers one and it was like 1.7 to the tip of the draw bar from the edge of the trailer. Also messured another car trailer it was 1.4 to the tip. Give me something to base mine off. Tomorrow cut those peaces cleaner and weld the spring stuff and put some wheels on it. Roll it over. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 64valiant Posted January 6, 2019 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 6, 2019 day four. i had cut these lengths last night but i came in and laid them out on the floor, draw some straight line on the floor and then tacked these cross bars so they wouldn't move i had a left over length and it was going to be pretty good for the front part of the draw bar so i cut another one. measured between the front and drew a long line square up the front which i then made my two draw bar section go out to. cut the angle i needed and cleaned it up ready for welding welding some more welding, but this time the back brace welded one of the spring things backwards as @Shakotom pointed out when he arrived so well yea cut that off and put it on the correct way and proceed to do the other side i didn't quite have the drill side i needed so i used @Beavers favorite tool of my shop, the step trill followed up with the dremel as the step drill wasn't quite long enough. assembled most of it and made it roll!!!!!!! put the floor on it! here i am happy as that i had made this so far and its gone pretty darn well also @flyingbrick drew this up while he was at my place while i was working fuck yes 18 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
64valiant Posted January 6, 2019 Author Share Posted January 6, 2019 Another cool thing from @flyingbrick 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
64valiant Posted January 8, 2019 Author Share Posted January 8, 2019 day 5 welded the main floor to the chassis also welded the top side of my spring holders and welded the jokey wheel on as well i went a cnc pipe bender place to get a quote on how much it would cost to have my hoops bent up. they came back at 100 bucks for both sides with me supplying the steel. i then realized i had thick steel so have asked for a price with them supplying it and also sent a better profile of the caravan hoop. so now just waiting for a price so i can go ahead with that 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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