Bluebird cargo compartment weight capacity?

[milkmania]

i can spend someone else's money all day long! lol


mounted on bottom:

[Tango]

Whatever type of closure, they really need to snug it up tight. And I'd put a couple of rubber bumpers on the bottom of the table top to prevent rattles going down the road.

[HolyBus]

I think I would go with a wide strip of industrial Velcro.
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[mjh2901]

Its not that it wont work its that if it does, I loose a little faith in humanity.;

[MrPhoenix]

Looks like this is an old thread that went way off track. I have the same TC2000 bus and am wondering what the weight capacity is of the center bay. I'm looking to store about 80 gallons of water in two tanks, one on each side of the bay.

Can the bay take it or will I need to weld in some supports?

[miltruckman]

I don't think the cargo compartments will handle that much weight. I re-supported mine to handle the nine Trojan batteries for the solar charging system.

Bill

[Stu & Filo. T]

Originally Posted by milkmania

i can spend someone else's money all day long! lol


mounted on bottom:

Well since we started, anyone know where to get latches like this??

[cowlitzcoach]

Originally Posted by MrPhoenix

Looks like this is an old thread that went way off track. I have the same TC2000 bus and am wondering what the weight capacity is of the center bay. I'm looking to store about 80 gallons of water in two tanks, one on each side of the bay.

Can the bay take it or will I need to weld in some supports?

I think the luggage compartments could handle the weight if it were a dead weight. But the sloshing around, even with baffles in the tank, is going to cause the whole compartment to wiggle back and forth. I don't think I would want to trust everything staying in place.

It wouldn't take much to secure the tanks to the frame rail and from the floor supports overhead.

[turf]

i thought this thread sounded familiar when i saw it. my batteries are still hanging in. no worse for wear.

some of those ABS waste tanks just hang by their plastic edges.

like cowlitz says, i'd hang it from the floor. just more centered, less sloshy. thats a lot of weight moving....the floor is stronger than the under storage.

goodluck

[MrPhoenix]

Thanks for the advice. I never thought of hanging it from the floor rails. Much easier option than trying to beef up the compartment!