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What you did with your Series 2 in March

Started by Wittsend, Mar 01, 2024, 12:19 AM

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Ken

Made them all from sheet. For the upstands I made a simple jig from MS plate to form the swaged stiffener, two halves, the top with a ' letter box' cut out in the shape of the swage and the same cut out for the lower half but bevelled to allow the sheet to move when I knocked the bar into it. I rounded off a short piece of ally bar, 5/8th inch diameter.
The 2 formers were bolted together sandwiching the sheet which I'd cut to shape and preventing it from distorting when formed and knocked the ally bar into the letter box using its length. It worked fine.
Everything else was angle iron and the vice.
It needs a lot of care to start the curves in the right place.
I usually use CAD for these things, cardboard aided design, cereal boxes are best !

steve6027

Quote from: diffwhine on Mar 25, 2024, 08:33 PMDid you buy in the headlining or make it yourself? I'm quite keen to see what the ones from Badger in the US look like as the prices aren't too bad even with VAT and import added.
Sorry for the very late reply.
Made up the new headlining by unpicking the old ripped one then gold the missus to sew it up.
Fits reasonably well, hoping to get some of the wrinkles out with a hot air gun
The rear half looks like a piece of headlining held up with trim pieces.
I bought two new old stock front and rear trim pieces and made the left and right trim pieces milled and modified from some aluminium caravan awning trim.
Two weeks ago I discovered I had the original trim pieces stored in the cellar, so have to paint them up and fit the rear trim.
Steve.