u/Sea_Fortune_4813

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Death trap or engineering marvel?

Have seen some people get destroyed in the comments here for building a stool that is not up to code and could kill everyone around them, so I thought I'd share my truck cap.

Needed to carry some equipment in the back that I didn't want to get rain on or people to be able to steal easily, so I fired up SketchUp and spent about $800 CAD in materials.
I don't really know anything about building stuff with wood, but tried my best to come up with a good design.

Last picture I tried showing the foam seal that I put around the boards and between the cap and truck bed walls (you can see at the very top).
Everything worked pretty nicely, except the doors started being a bitch to close because it shifted and misaligned.

I am planning to build another one for my new truck, so if anyone has any advice on how to make doors that can take the shifting and still be able to close, I'd appreciate it!

u/Sea_Fortune_4813 — 1 day ago