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Old 08-06-2013, 02:54 PM   #21
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The 22 foot is not only longer but wider and taller, not sure of the exact dimensions.
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Their dimensions are on their website, here Specs & Floor Plan - Oliver Travel Trailers
looks like 6"2" wide interior and 6' 6" wide exterior and 6'1 interior height.
A 6' 6" wide exterior will not likely be wider than the earlier model... it is narrower than an original Boler! Did anyone keep a record of the original 17-foot Oliver specs?

A longer trailer is typically taller if only because the ends must be higher for ground clearance. A longer trailer's frame is also typically deeper, for strength, pushing the height up further.

Now, if only I had more faith in dimensional information published by manufacturers...

(A different manufacturer continues to publish that their crosswise bed is as long as the outside width of the body, indicating that there's no curve in the body and that the walls have zero thickness... even after the impossibility was pointed out to them and acknowledged.)
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Old 08-06-2013, 06:44 PM   #22
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Now depending on the weight of the thinsulite, it might have an R value around 4/inch.
That seems reasonable for a soft foam: higher than fiberglass batting, but a bit lower than polystyrene foam.

That's R-4 per inch of thickness: does anyone know how thick it is? For instance, a quarter inch thickness would provide R-1 of insulation. At that sort of thickness it would be similar to the foam-backed liner used by Escape. We're not talking house levels of insulation here...
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Old 08-06-2013, 06:57 PM   #23
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Insulation thickness

Bob said that the gap is about 1 to 1.5 inches. Also headroom about 76 inches, and I think 84 inch width. (maybe 86)

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Old 08-06-2013, 07:07 PM   #24
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Bob said that the gap is about 1 to 1.5 inches.
It's hard to understand wasting that much interior space... but okay. Still, it seems unlikely that they are filling that with Thinsulate, but I suppose they could be... or they could be putting a thin layer of Thinsulate on the shell, and leaving an inch of air gap.

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Also headroom about 76 inches, and I think 84 inch width. (maybe 86)
That width makes more sense, and is similar to some of the old "widebody" designs such as my Boler B1700.
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The original Olivers had (according to their brochures) an outside width of 6'6" for the 17' models and 6'11" for the 22 foot models (both sport and elite). So either their current website is wrong or they have reduced the width of the 22' model. I'd guess that their website is wrong, but they also seem to have changed the outside height to 8'7"(current site) whereas before the 22' model was 8'6" (interior height 6'6") and the 17' model was 8'4" in outside height.
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