Diy no sew upholstery thread

[daveS53]

All the little details shown in the Sid Shavers videos can be critical - like how to cut and fold the fabric around tight corners and cutting out small areas on a panel, so multiple layers of fabric seams have a place to hide.

The video also showed how a fiberglass inner door skin should be made - ready to install a door panel to it, without all sorts of protrusions to work around.

The heavy weight, but flexible (like cloth) clear plastic they used for pattern making is also interesting, but I've never seen where to get that stuff. Maybe something like this:

http://www.tapplastics.com/product/p...l_sheeting/248

After your mention of a fiberglass top buckling, it makes me think that I'll roll my car out into the sun, on the next hot day (if we ever get one). I added a lot of bondo glass to the A-pillars and area above the top of the door opening. I need to be sure that it's not going to create a future problem. It also makes me think strongly about using 3/4" or 1" upholstery foam over a large expanse of the headliner area, for a base to apply headliner material to. It would be easier and cheaper than using core-foam, coated with fiberglass resin, as a base.

One question I had, after watching the panel video, was why they used a spray can of adhesive to secure 1/4" foam to a wood panel base, rather than the same spray gun applied contact adhesive, used for gluing on the fabric. Others have mistakenly used a spray can product with insufficient heat resistance and suffered a complete failure.