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Old March 29th 2006, 17:29
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Originally Posted by bow
....also can you get those doors here in the states and how hard do you guys think it would be to make some
Located in Nevada. http://markvfiberglass.com/catalog/o...oorsD0109.html

Have you ever worked with fiberglass? If not you would first need to learn about all the chemicals and different fabrics and their weights. You would then need 2 perfect doors (each side). Make a mold of each door. If you wanted the top of the door to have a rounded edge on it, make that more work. Then if you wanted to have a working window you would have to glass in the metal mounts for the regulator to bolt up to, glass in metal nuts for the weather strip, glass in the metal nuts for the door handles and latchs to bolt up to, and glass in the inside part of the door. It would be a lot of work and it would not protect you from any side inpact at all. If you have a cage then ignore the last part. It would be really expensive unless you know somebody that works in a shop and could get you a discount.

Glassing is fun but making big stuff is time consuming and expensive. Most stuff you can find already made elsewhere.

Mike
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