[jasinger01]

Took my new bed further apart to see exactly what I want to do with it.

I learned that it just has steel bed style crossmembers, so they sit flush height with the rails on the inside of the bedsides. There are no reinforcement strips currently.

Ideally I would like to order a new front panel, rear crossmember, cross sills, and reinforcement strips for O/E style wood floor, but that will not be a project for this year. The original front panel definitely has some rot, but this will be covered by the plywood and is not my long term solution anyway.

In the mean time, I welded some support tabs on the steel style cross sills which will nicely hold the bed together. Previously the cross sills were just tacked to the bedside and very unstable. This will give me a nice solid platform to lay down some plywood on for the time being.