What does a Dormobile roof weigh?

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    JLT
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      Hi, folks.

      Here’s an oddball question: What does a Dormobile roof weigh, including the bellows and bellows frame? Somebody asked me if weighed more or less than the Westfalia roof fitted to the VW bay window buses, and I couldn’t tell him. My guess is that it’s heavier, but it’s just a guess.

      #3649

      hi jlt
      i have just removed the roof to repaint it on my bedford ca 1959 porthole and i guess its a good 200 ponds thats with the frame and bellow hope this helps
      dave glanfield

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      JLT
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        @daveglanfield wrote:

        hi jlt
        i have just removed the roof to repaint it on my bedford ca 1959 porthole and i guess its a good 200 ponds thats with the frame and bellow hope this helps
        dave glanfield

        Thanks, Dave. That tells me that the springs do a lot of the actual lifting … I just never knew how much.

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        jkhackney
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          Yes, the springs carry a good amount of the weight. But I think 200lbs is an overestimate.

          I took my roof to pieces to fix it and I carried the fiberglass cap with windows and lifting handle in it by myself. So it can’t be more than 80 lbs I think, and probably less. The bows and canopy aren’t more than 20lbs. The lifting arms are heavier than they look, maybe another 20lbs?

          -Jeremy

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          Don’t forget the weight of the bunk beds, these must weight 10-15kg each

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          JLT
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            @Jonny wrote:

            Don’t forget the weight of the bunk beds, these must weight 10-15kg each

            I actually weighed one of these today. It comes to nineteen pounds (roughly 8.6 kg), with the fabric. (I’d taken them out because I don’t use them, and knew that I was saving a bit of weight … 38 lbs as it turned out.

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