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Message: [QUOTE="cowboy_dan, post: 70297, member: 258"] I've got three weddings to go to in as many weeks coming up, and well over 5000 miles for them. So, I decided it was time for some semi-aero changes. First was a truck bed cover. I have a pretty standard low profile over-rail toolbox in the bed, and I'm not willing to give it up unless I could get a really killer deal on a in-bed toolbox. Basically it would have to be a straight trade, or free. So I started looking for a cover that would fit with the toolbox. The only ones I found didn't work with the low profile toolbox (handle & lock are below level of bed rails), wouldn't raise in the front (I'm not removing the cover just to get in the toolbox), or just too danged expensive ($600). I pondered this for several weeks, daydreaming and looking at pictures of other bed covers for ideas. Then I sketched out my ideas and threw them out one by one for various reasons that made them impractical to build, or just plain wouldn't work. Eventually I settled on this design. The results are what you see here. It still isn't done, I need to make a little latch of some sort to keep it from bouncing around and rattling. BOM: Vendor Part number Desc pkg qty qty unit price Metal world N/A Angle 1 1/4" x 1 1/4" x 3/16" x 20' cut in half 1 3 36.70 Lee's truevalue hdw N/A 5/16 X 3" stainless carriage bolt 1 7 2.00 Menards 554705 spray on bed liner 1 3 7.49 Menards N/A 5/16 x 2 SS carriage bolt 23 1 6.99 Menards N/A 5/16" SS nuts 96 1 5.99 Menards N/A 5/16" SS washers 87 1 4.99 Menards N/A 2 1/2" hinge captive pin 1 4 2.49 And, pictures: [ATTACH=full]65881[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]65882[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]65883[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]65884[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]65885[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]65886[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]65887[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]65888[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]65889[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]65890[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]65891[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]65892[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]65893[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]65894[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]65895[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]65896[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]65897[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]65898[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]65899[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]65900[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]65901[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]65902[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]65903[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]65904[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]65905[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]