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    Posted: 01 May 2012 at 4:08pm

Does anyone have a recommendation for an electric dolly that DOESN'T require a PhD to make functional?
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Goose, LOL!

Welcome, Markpod.
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Goose, I love the hover round pulling the mini R-pod, I figure at my age that will be the next purchase right before the nursing home, I can hear me now, " I've fallen and cant get back into my mini pod"
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 Thank you and Welcome Mark. We are all here for fun.
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Welcome, Mark!  
Adventures with ¡Podtástic!--Life in a Forest River RPod 182G with Tim and Louis and our two cats, Desi and Lucy. Check our website at http://podtastic.info for information on our journeys.
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This is what Doug needs.   Tongue   Goose

Been lurking for a while, but couldn't let this go, tooooo funny ! LOL

Bought my 182g Thanksgiving week, my walk thru last weekend, more than ready to give it a go!
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   This is what Doug needs.   Tongue   Goose
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Nice JOB on the remanufacture. Thumbs Up    Goose
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Doug: I bought a trailer dolly from princess auto on sale for 300$. It is a very poor design and very insufficient for my purpose. It would not even push the trailer down the driveway over a 1/2" lip, because the weight was distributed over 3 wheels. I used the parts from the dolly, made and bought others and by trail and error  came up with this design. Total cost about 550$, consider this thow with this dolly I can manoeuvre the pod through a gate behind the garage with 4" of clearense and save 80$ a month on rent for storage.
 
 
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I also geared down the speed from 24 to 14' per minute for more torque.
If you want something done right, do it yourself.
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Posts: 9062 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 15 Feb 2012 at 8:08pm

Very sweet.  If I had an extra couple of grand I would build an electric pusher for my car, partly just for the fun of building it.  I figure it would increase my MPGs by 50%.

Did you salvage the motor from something?
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