msiminoff
Active member
You are quite welcome.Mark - thanks for the info.... How long are they saying to build your box?
Who is the "they" in your question? A Total Composites box is a build-it-yourself proposition. Of course there are companies that can do the assembly for you. However, being a mechanical engineer and fabricator, I need to be hands-on in the process.
Andreas can introduce you to the shops in the US and Canada that have experience building their boxes and I think the pro's can do it pretty quickly, like 2 or 3 days.
In my case, the time to fabricate & ship my panels (flat-packed from China) was around 10 weeks from the day I officially placed the order the day they arrived in North America. We're currently building the aluminum subframe which is a ~1-week job to cut, bend, assemble, & weld. I am expecting that it will take 1 full week to test-fit, bond the panels together, and install it on the truck, call it me plus 4 strong guys and a 40-50 hour work-week... so 200+ man hours. You can do the math on the labor to do all of that.
None of the above includes the prep and engineering work... that's months of time.