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    Posted: 19 Mar 2018 at 5:30pm
I'd like to add a storage compartment door on the front left of my trailer.
Has anyone done this?
Does anyone know where I can get a door frame to match what Forest River used?

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 19 Mar 2018 at 5:34pm
a couple people have, at least one made his own door and frame. You can contact FR for a new door and frame I believe..
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 20 Mar 2018 at 11:13am
Which R-Pod? I know on the 179, some of the plumbing takes up space in that area, so you'd have to figure out a way to move it.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 20 Mar 2018 at 11:32am
I made my own, because narrow doors that I needed are not around.  


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 20 Mar 2018 at 12:07pm
Wow! That is a really nice door.  It looks much better made than ones available from the trailer supermarkets.

Where did you get your materials?  How did you come up with such a nice door frame?  Did you make it or repurpose one that was used for something else?  
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 20 Mar 2018 at 12:18pm
No it's all home made.






 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 20 Mar 2018 at 12:32pm
The winters are long in the great white north... Thanks for posting those pics, that was a mod of yours I hadn't seen documented.. 
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Once again Canadian ingenuity rocks!
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Actually it is German ingenuity.  
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That too.  But those cold winters in Edmonton leave lots of time to improve on the German ingenuity.  ðŸ˜Ž
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