{"id":4453,"date":"2020-09-08T19:29:50","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T19:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/websterart.com\/wordpress\/?p=4453"},"modified":"2020-09-08T20:12:39","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T20:12:39","slug":"cheap-diy-tonneau-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websterart.com\/wordpress\/2020\/09\/cheap-diy-tonneau-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheap DIY tonneau cover"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our new custom contractor canopy from canopy-world.com won’t be here until October-ish. Our trucks been sitting since it’s useless for camping without a storage area.<\/p>\n

I decided to build a DIY tonneau cover from 3\/4 inch plywood. I can re-purpose the plywood later into ourcanopy bed…and it was a fun project. Total cost was around $200.<\/p>\n

Because I built it on a Sunday, the metal shops were closed. I mickey moused the C channel with some drilled square pipe cut in half. If I was going to use this long term I’d cut the post 2 inches taller and mount proper 8′ long C channel directly to the posts, thereby skipping the 2 x 2 and all the leaks inherent in my current system of partial coverage C channel.<\/p>\n

There was one major problem. Once I started measuring for the proper panel widths I discovered that the post holes in the bed are not in a straight line. They curve. This made the C channel curve caused fit problems. I solved that by redrilling the last post off center to true the 2 x 2.<\/p>\n

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