Hello Ausmini. Happy 2019
I’m still working away on the Morris, it drives and the last direction I got from the engineer was ‘just get it roadworthy’.
So in the interests of kicking off this year with some solid progress towards that goal, I decided getting the interior to a habitable and roadworthy was an easy place to start. First up, some nice trims for the C pillars. Note that the whole interior was sold when I purchased the car so I have to make everything from scratch.
To fill these holes.
I cut these up out of some plywood. Gave them a few coats of polyurethane varnish I had just to tidy them up a bit.
The trick with these is to allow room for the trim clips to slide in. Don’t glue your foam straight to the backboard, thankfully I learnt this lesson a while back on a previous project.
Some thin card.
Taped over the holes should do.
Like so.
Allowing the clips to slide in without grabbing the foam.
So then I cut some pieces of vinyl.
Then found some foam for backing.
Glued to the boards with spray adhesive and trimmed to the edges.
Leaving an inch or so all the way around.
For gluing with some contact adhesive. After finding both the tins in the shed had gone solid, a trip to Bunnings yielded some Sika branded stuff that was quite forgiving to use and actually allowed for a bit of repositioning which was handy.
I found it was necessary to look at both sides to try to get the radius of the edge even as too much tension flattened it out and made it look funny.
Overall they came out pretty nice for an afternoons work.
I painted inside the C pillar with some body deadener. Not sure it did much but it all helps I guess.
Soaked a bunch of the trim clips overnight in vinegar, it helps a lot.
Trial fitted, should do the job nicely.
Next up, Door trims. These are the cards, just 3mm MDF with he same varnish to seal them a little. Will be a basic design with straight lines I think, not going to get too fancy.
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