Re: IML: door panels ?material

[JosephStil@xxxxxxx]

Chad/Teresa:

Do y'all have pics of what you've done with your vehicles or the process you describe below?  I am having a heckuva time following, and or, picturing the materials you are talking about.

:-)

Thanks,

Joe
61 Crown

In a message dated 1/10/2005 11:58:42 PM Eastern Standard Time, "Chad & Teresa Smith" <hemi_powered@xxxxxxx> writes:

>Charles and Rob:
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>I use a fiber board material that you can find at the home improvement center. ?If you look in books for custom upholstery or auto upholstery restoration, many of them recommend replicating your door panels from this 1/8" hard pressed fiber board. ?It works very well. ?I don't know of any other material that is impervious to water and can be used for this, not to say that there isn't one out there. ?I do know this much, if you decide to try this, do not buy the fiber board with the melamine backing, the spray adhesive doesn't like the melamine as well, probably because it is so slick. ?You can also add a 1/8" layer of closed cell foam over the door panel, either all over, or you can literally carve out patterns (with an X-Acto knife) and then place your fabric over the door panel. ?If you have an embossed looking detail, you can achieve this buy cutting that part of the design out of the foam, and then pushing the fabric down inside of the design using an old screwdriver that you have rounded the sharp corners off of. ?I did flames for my nephew's truck using this method....looked very cool. ?You can also reverse the effect by adding the design on top of your solid piece of foam, so you put a 1/8" thick layer of foam (that is your design) on top of your 1/8" piece of foam that attached to your board, so that you achieve an outward 3D effect. ?I would suggest that you go to your library and get a copy of "Custom Auto Interiors" by Don Taylor and Ron Mangus. ?Many esteem this as the Bible for custom auto do it yourselfers, and I would say that I thought it was a good, easy to understand book.
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>Hope this helps.
>
>Teresa Smith
>1959 Imperial Custom South Hampton, and various other old, old Mopars
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> ?Charles,
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> ?Do you mean the backing board the upholstery attaches to? ?If so, you can
> ?use plastic board stock. ?I read about it in a street rod magazine. ?I can't
> ?remember if it's styrene, ABS, or urethane. ?I think they use ABS.
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> ?I haven't done it yet, but I want it give it a try on one of my other
> ?projects. ?I have a pair of door panels that the skins are good, but the
> ?board is falling apart.
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> ?Rob McCall
> ?'67 LeBaron
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> ?-----Original Message-----
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> ?What material can I use that will last longer and maybe not be affected by
> ?water as the org material is? Or if I cant find that where to get the org
> ?material?
> ?Charles
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