Home made rear storage

Gossy, thanks for the info. I was planning to build shelving out of timber for both the tray and the rear of the dual cab area on Miss Turtle but was procrastinating due to the work involved. This, with a little bit of adaptation will be perfect. Cheers.

Alcan/Capral have marketed it for years as Qubelock.
FWIW the Trayon slide on campers use it for the internal frame of the base section and cupboards and the outside sheets are then glued & pop riveted on.

Yep, wasn't sure it was the same stuff. When I went down to the hardware store I was actually looking for the "Qubelock" signage. This stuff looked exactly the same so just grabbed it anyway.

I was going to ask at the hardware store on the weekend the best way to connect wooden panels to the frame work (screw etc). Looks like glue and pop rivet is the way to go? Hope not or otherwise I will need to buy a pop rivet gun that I will only use once in my whole life :(

Gossy
Greta idea. Any chance of a picture the finished product.
Morto

I knocked up a basic box and shelf unit just out of scrap 12mm MDF from packing cases that I got for free. Used 38x19 pine to form the corners and screwed the sheets straight to the pine. I think the most expensive part was the screws. A large plastic crate sits under the box acting as a draw and there is a second shelf under the top shelf which forms a handy slide out workbench. The fridge just sits beside the box. While it doesn't slide out it is still pretty easy to get into.

I was mainly wanting to build the unit to a size and live with it a little while to make sure the sizing was right before rebuilding it properly out of 12mm ply and carpeting it. So far it has lasted 12 months brilliantly and I may just carpet what I have.

While my effort may look a bit agricultural it is very functional and beats the hell out of paying hundreds of dollars for the whizzy bang metal slide runner draws and stuff which I also think waste a lot of space anyway.

My old man promised me a nice set of Black Widow drawers and a fridge slide for the Prado for my 40th but we both did a double take when the quote was $2k plus.

I must however bow to EO member Willem as the undisputed MDF King for internal vehicle storage!

Cheers
Muddy

Gossy

I'm like you (lacking confidence and skills) so I made mine out of aluminium angle and aluminium security mesh.

Closest thing to meccano, which I used to love.

to be honest the home made jobs we have all done will never be as good looking as the after market products BUT the prices they charge are just crazy.

if we all cared about appearance over functionality then we would all be driving $100K 200 series leather everywhere Sahara landcruisers. We have our cars because we get them dusty, scratch them and shake them to bits. As long as our system holds together and does what it is intended to do I could never justify $2000 + for storage systems.

Heres a picture of mine I have been using for some years now. Very light to put in and out of the back.