DMR's K-5 Gutter Machine Photopage part 5

Here is the roof panel from on top, before I installed the skylight panels and the removable panel.

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Here I have the rear skylight paner on and locked down. I have the front skylight panel on, but the front triangle piece is a part that goes on over it and then is screwed on to hold the skylight panel down in the front.

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This is the interior without the removable panel on.

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Here is the top view without the removable panel in place.

I would have loved to have made the trailer much taller, but with the extra weight, wind drag, and most importantly; I could not reach the screws for the removable panel, I was not able to make it any higher. As it is, it is all I can do to reach the screws with the drill/driver.

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This is looking up from the inside through the skylight. A much nicer addition from the old trailer I made. This material is made out of a two layer polycarbonate plastic formula, that will not yellow and fog like acrylic plastic. It is also very impact resistant too.

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Here of course is the finished trailer, sans the new rear door. As you can see, I made a sample gutter, which also displays the no-clog gutter options and leaf-catcher. The gutters are in a color called 'wood beige' and the downspouts are painted 'musket brown', just like the roof and the inside of the wall panels.

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This is the top view of the trailer, clearly showing the skylight panels and the removable panel in place. Four screws hold it in place, two on each side. For the sake of high wind and rain, the removable panel is tucked under the front skylight panel, and over the rear skylight panel, since all the high speed travel will be in the forward motion.

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Here is a picture of some aluminum sheet metal being run through our roll-forming machine, and resting on a portable roller stand. As I have said before, It is important to me that I keep my machine out of the elements, as they do not make a machine that has all non-corrosive metal parts. Most, if not all the bearings are simply made out of steel. I have replace many of the bearings in our machine recently, even though it has never been rained on. It is a crime that most of the other installer still have their machine exposed to the elements, due to the simplicity. They especially do this for the loading new sheet metal coils onto the spools. Their rusty machines will scratch up the paint, if not dent the sheet metal of the new gutters. A fact that you will not get from these contractors until it is too late.

Here is a close-up shot of the gutter being extruded from the 8 ' sheet metal roll-forming machine we call our gutter machine.

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