Waeco Fridge- Secure tie Down

waeco make a tie down kit

http://www.waeco.com.au/products4.asp?id=419&catId=57&subCatId=60&subCatId2=71

thanks for that. I rang waeco and they stated that it is not crash worthy, and shouldnt be depended on s such. Whilst I was confused abou this, I rang again and spoke to somoeone else at waeco, and they mentioned same.

Any other ideas?

I use these with my Engel.....

ROPE RATCHET

I snapped a handle off my waeco tying it down to my floor. There wasn't much strength there.

Dane
Unfortunately the handles are only designed as pick up points. They are not designed to be used as tie down points and WILL break giving you a nice lethal projectile flying around in the event of a rollover. All you can do is place your straps over the lid and tie it down that way. A pain because you have to loosen them off to open it every time, but the only safe way for you. Probably your ratchet strap is the way to go, provided you make the whole thing secure. With a bit of practice and the ratchet in the right place you can probably release and retighten in a few seconds.

teege

Hi Dane,

I use the Engel SlideLok system. It securely holds the fridge in place, as well as being a quick release system without the need for ropes or straps. I have found it to be very good and you may be able to adapt it to fir a Waeco, only need to get the feet in the right place (have seen it used on Space Cases and other storage boxes.
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Cheers

Captain

Hi sb, Im not familiar with waecos but on the engel you could take the feet screws out and replace them with longer screws, screwing them through the board and all. Maybe you could do this on a separate board and mount this to your false floor. Hope this helps...

I would suggest that you have a look at making up some metal straps that can be positioned behind the handle securing points. You would have to extend the bolts/screws and then fit the handles again. I have seen this method on an Engel. However, I have only seen the Waeco secured by straps from a base to the handles. Are they all wrong?

Martin

Hi all,

Thanks for all you input.


I have purchased the fridge mounting kit I first mentioned, and will sue it as a base for lcoation the fridge.

I think I will fabricate some steel brackets brakects to fit in behind the original handles, with extendsed bolts and mount these to the steel fake floor frame with turnbuckles.

I'll also get the big 2000kg strap and go over the top of the fridge.

Cheers for you help.

Dane,

Farrrrrrrrrrr out. This seems to be turning into a major engineering effort. I secured my Waeco ( 40lt ) direct onto the back seat of a Hilux Extracab. Put two U-bolts into the bulkhead underneath the seat and used the seat belt anchor points and a set of straps from Just Straps - voile !

This arrangement has worked for the last 5 years over some pretty bad corrugations etc without a problem.

Where are you going that you need this sort of effort ?

Regards

Check these. Qantas have lengths of tie down points that can be bolted to a floor and then plug in metal o rings can be moved anywhere you want them along the length so that you can tie dwn to them. Very strong and adjustable. Qantas use them for mounting seats to the floor so that seats can be repositioned. Also used as adjustable tie down points in the cargo bays of planes. Just unplug the tie down points and your floor is virtually flat again. You can get this stuff from TJM 4WD shops for about $35.00 a metre including two of the tie down points. You can cut the lengths up into whatever lengths suit you. I have a number of these strips at different points around the floor of my 60 series and it is a very strong, versatile arrangement that lets me tie down pretty well anything I want. This has included a 50 litre Waeco and 60 litre water botlles. Nothing tied dwon to them broke or moved while airborne over the top of Simpson dunes.TJM however don't seem to know that these were designed for Qantas, so I don't know where they get theirs. I got mine through a Qantas engineer, then saw them at TJM.

Well on my trip in a Croozer I put two cargo barriers in one behind the front seat and one behind where the rear seat would have been.

Put a floor in bolted to the front cargo barrier which was attached to the seat fixing holes.

I put some rubber matting and glued it to the floor Chucked the fridge and a washing machine in and never tied anything down.

Have done 50,000k with them like that..

I wasnt upside down any time of course.

Just remember if you take all but your front seats out you should go to an engineer and get a blue plate as by doing so you alter the insurance category of the car. We did it cost $60.

Now have to get another one when we put them back.