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themetalsurgeon
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 Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 12:15 pm Post subject: 59 panel van conversion to 15 window deluxe |
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First stage of conversion.Clean painted area.Mark out cut lines.Cut donor side windows from cargo doors.
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themetalsurgeon
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pics include cargo door top window frame donors to graft in to the bus. |
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Lohe
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I've got a 59 panel with holes already cut in the side, trade you?
Oh wait, too late. |
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kombisutra
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He's obviously committed. I'll just stand back and watch. Hope his work is up to his avitar screen name.
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KombiMonster
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are the door window sections flat like the side panel?
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themetalsurgeon
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| Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 9:19 pm Post subject: 59 panel van conversion to 15 window deluxe |
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the 2 donor cargo window frames TIG welded together and metal finished.Then grafted into the ares cut out in the bus body.Klico'd in ,then tacked.
Followed by welding an inch at a time ,and cooling immeadiatley .Then metal finish as shown in the centre section of the 2 window frames. |
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themetalsurgeon
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| Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 9:22 pm Post subject: |
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are the door window sections flat like the side panel?
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cargo window frames share the same profile as the body. |
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my65vert
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| Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 9:41 pm Post subject: |
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when your finished I have an early 57 panel you can do. 
would it not be easier to use complete donor window sections from a kombi/standard bus for each side in 1 complete panel?
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themetalsurgeon
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another angle |
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rustfree1967bug
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So it will be a double door 15w?
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themetalsurgeon
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| Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 10:26 pm Post subject: 59 panel van conversion to 15 window deluxe |
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inside the bus.weld penetration |
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themetalsurgeon
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| Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 10:28 pm Post subject: 59 panel van conversion to 15 window deluxe |
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So it will be a double door 15w? [/quote]
certainly will be |
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themetalsurgeon
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| Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 10:37 pm Post subject: 59 panel van conversion to 15 window deluxe |
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the bus at OCTO fest 09 .Work in progress! |
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mightymouse
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when your finished I have an early 57 panel you can do.
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Please dont waste a good early panel. If you want a 15, buy one. Perpetrating should be against the law.
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joe cool
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I've got a 59 panel with holes already cut in the side, trade you?
Oh wait, too late. |
The pieces he is cutting out are the pieces I need to de-camper my panel.
Are they available? |
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zimblewinder
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Door window inner skins are not right above the window line. The original skins are flat.
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i_am_cool_fred
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| Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2009 5:09 am Post subject: |
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| joe cool wrote: |
| Lohe wrote: |
I've got a 59 panel with holes already cut in the side, trade you?
Oh wait, too late. |
The pieces he is cutting out are the pieces I need to de-camper my panel.
Are they available? |
agreed, people doing this only make my panel more valuable
man,i just soudned like a purist 
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my65vert
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| Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2009 6:50 am Post subject: |
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when your finished I have an early 57 panel you can do.
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Please dont waste a good early panel. If you want a 15, buy one. Perpetrating should be against the law. |
I dont want a 15 window i just sold the one I had, I would just make it an 11 window kombi or maybe just cut camper windows into it?
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Kombisutra;
I'm starting to get little wafts of bus stink coming from the north. Something about the unique scent of drivers seat padding when it's glued together with mouse piss and shit that really gets me going... and I'm smelling it! Oh yeah! Time to start loading up the equipment. |
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Lohe
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| Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2009 7:14 am Post subject: |
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| Nice metal work, really. Hope you saved the panels for someone |
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