What does a Dormobile roof weigh?

[JLT]

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.

[daveglanfield]

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

[JLT]

@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.

[jkhackney]

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

[Jonny]

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

[JLT]

@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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