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i am completley fiberglassing my doors....got the trim rings glued to the door...got 8's, 5.25's and a tweet (tweet i might just surface mount into the fiberglass when done...
but anyway...i was talking to my old co-worker (http://www.blaupunktusa.com/BlaupunktUSA/ShowCars/84vwrabbit.htm AND...lol..... http://www.blaupunktusa.com/BlaupunktUSA/ShowCars/vw.htm ...he is INSANE...)
and he told me that a big mistake that a lot of people make when redoing doors- is that when they resin and lay on the glass the heat (from the chemical reaction of hardening resin etc) actually causes the original door panel to warp...he said he's seen it happn on some cars to the point where it doesnt really stay on the door very well at all....im gonna be goin into work tomorrow to talk to him again, but i wanted to get any possible ideas or suggestions that might come up to fight the warpage....he said that he had made a jig for the door panel once so that it couldnt really warp at all cuz the door's pop's and screw holes were locked into the "jig" while the fiberglass was applied....so no warpage could happen....
just wanted yer ideas/opinions
thanks
-pat
but anyway...i was talking to my old co-worker (http://www.blaupunktusa.com/BlaupunktUSA/ShowCars/84vwrabbit.htm AND...lol..... http://www.blaupunktusa.com/BlaupunktUSA/ShowCars/vw.htm ...he is INSANE...)
and he told me that a big mistake that a lot of people make when redoing doors- is that when they resin and lay on the glass the heat (from the chemical reaction of hardening resin etc) actually causes the original door panel to warp...he said he's seen it happn on some cars to the point where it doesnt really stay on the door very well at all....im gonna be goin into work tomorrow to talk to him again, but i wanted to get any possible ideas or suggestions that might come up to fight the warpage....he said that he had made a jig for the door panel once so that it couldnt really warp at all cuz the door's pop's and screw holes were locked into the "jig" while the fiberglass was applied....so no warpage could happen....
just wanted yer ideas/opinions
thanks
-pat