Everything on this page is retired. It is the fabricated-parts version of the roof rack — cut base plates, gusset cheeks, pedestal posts, top saddles and pipe spacers — plus the exterior A/C and fan bays that went when the appliances moved inside. It is kept so the reasoning is traceable, not because any of it is buildable.
Nothing on this page is a productThe gold, green and orange parts in these drawings are proposed custom pieces drawn for this project. They are not Unistrut, TNUTZ or anyone else's catalog item. Do not carry a shape off this page into a supplier conversation, and do not read any dimension, hole or spacer here as current.
Each support was a bolted assembly of cut parts: a base plate, a short square-tube post, L-angles, triangular gusset cheeks and a fabricated top saddle, all drilled to a hole pattern that was never worked out. A stocked gusseted fitting is that corner in one piece, which is why the assembly went.
Retired — one support as a fabricated assembly. The whole gold stack between the blue rail and the green crossbar is what a pair of catalog gusseted fittings and a cut-to-length upright now replace. Drawn by Mickey.Retired — the same support, exploded. A useful count of how many made-to-order pieces one corner used to need. Drawn by Mickey.Retired — the whole rack with fabricated supports and exterior appliance bays. Two retired ideas in one drawing: the made-up supports, and appliances carried on the rack. The appliances moved to an internal frame. Drawn by Mickey.
Until 2026-09-16 the build page carried a twenty-one step, six-phase guide for a custom rack: an aluminium strut rail on the gutter studs, cut pipe spacers at each stud, a bolted pedestal of cut plates, angles and gussets to buy roof clearance, and a cut crossbar tube captured in a fabricated saddle. Almost every part it consumed was one that had to be made. That is why the sequence went rather than being edited.
What specifically is retiredThe twenty-one numbered steps and their six phases · the four-layer gutter / rail / braced-riser / crossbar architecture as a construction instruction · the cut 1.35″ pipe sleeve and 25 mm coupling-nut stack · the bench-assembled pedestal · the fabricated top saddle · the exterior appliance bays.
What survived into the current pagesThe operating lessons, not the construction: separate clearance from ventilation · name a locking method and a torque per joint · inspect visually on a schedule · close the ram-air path at the leading edge · lift glass by the frame. Those live in the current build order.
Retired — the custom gutter connection. A made-up spacer stack on the factory stud. No replacement drawing exists: the vehicle attachment is an open item on the build page, and nothing has been invented to fill it. Drawn by Mickey.Retired — the custom braced riser. Catalog gussets exist; this pedestal was the reason to believe they did not. Drawn by Mickey.Retired — the whole custom rack, with exterior appliance bays. Two retired ideas in one drawing: the fabricated supports, and appliances carried on the rack. Drawn by Mickey.Retired — equipment connections and the old build order. Panels B and C went when the appliances moved inside; panel A's clamp-or-holes logic now lives in the current workflow as “the module manual decides.” Drawn by Mickey.
Two sheets from the roof-frame page. The first still carried structural A/C and fan curbs on the exterior frame, which moved inside. The second was the fabricated braced pedestal. The ideas that survived them — the crossbar bridges the roof crown and never touches it, the load lands at the edge, and the clearance gap is sized for deflection and body movement — are stated on the current page and do not depend on these drawings.
Retired — the gutter-supported equipment frame. The green structural curbs framing A/C and fan openings went when the appliances moved inside; the fabricated members went with the catalog-parts direction. Not a product, not to scale, not a layout. Drawn by Mickey.Retired — the fabricated braced-riser concept. Green: a custom pedestal and base plate. Orange: a cut spacer at the factory stud. Neither is a part any more. Riser height, connections and attachment capacity were unverified here and still are. Drawn by Mickey.
