| Author | Message | ||
| Steve "Spanky" Aune (Spanky77707)
Registered Member Username: Spanky77707 Post Number: 7 Registered: 1-2010 Posted From: 75.228.118.99  Rating: N/A |
Hey guys, I need a little help. I'm remodeling my interior. At the rear of the bus, interior ceiling, there are curves, back and sides. Is there any material to cover this area with? Plywood is not flexible enough without breaking... Help.................................. | ||
| Nellie Wilson (Vivianellie)
Registered Member Username: Vivianellie Post Number: 442 Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 74.4.63.215  Rating: N/A |
Sure, Steve - Just use the original panels covered with your material of choice. Vinyl, burlap, auto headliner material... whatever. Industrial strength cement will hold nearly anything in place, even if you add a thick layer of insulation. Just my simplistic solution... but why reinvent the wheel you've already got? Nellie Wilson | ||
| Steve "Spanky" Aune (Spanky77707)
Registered Member Username: Spanky77707 Post Number: 8 Registered: 1-2010 Posted From: 75.233.195.126 Rating: N/A |
Thanks Nellie However, I don't have the original headliner... Hey, by the way, I sent you an email a while back, wondering if you got it and listened to the song I sent as an attachment? Again Thanks...Steve "Spanky" | ||
| Paul Lawry (Dreamscape)
Registered Member Username: Dreamscape Post Number: 631 Registered: 5-2007 Posted From: 75.218.86.80  Rating: N/A |
Steve, If you cut kurfs on the back side of the plywood you can make a nice bend. If it's 1/2" set your saw to go about 1/4". They make bender board plywood if you can find it. Is the interior ceiling stripped? Any pictures? You can send me some of your music too ya know! ;) Paul | ||
| Jim Wallin (Powderseeker01)
Registered Member Username: Powderseeker01 Post Number: 64 Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 208.68.48.77  Rating: N/A |
I just spray textured the original steel panels and painted it with insulating paint. Looks great. | ||
| Ralph Peters (Ralph7)
Registered Member Username: Ralph7 Post Number: 98 Registered: 3-2004 Posted From: 75.242.190.195 Rating: N/A |
On my MC-8 I put 4in. wide strips front to rear, 4in. wide 1/4 plywood with deep cuts abuot 1in. apart, bows then thin 1/8 ply, an had to slice it. Also mine is inside a overhead storage area. | ||
| John & Barb Tesser (Bigrigger)
Registered Member Username: Bigrigger Post Number: 343 Registered: 9-2007 Posted From: 24.183.21.246  Rating: N/A |
The entire interior of mine is covered in blue shag carpeting. Wouldn't have been my choice, but the previous owner. lol Well, it is sound deadening and has some good insulation qualitys anyway and if I put on some Led Zepelin... | ||
| Glenn Williams (Glenn)
Registered Member Username: Glenn Post Number: 245 Registered: 6-2006 Posted From: 216.163.57.219  Rating: N/A |
"...And as we wind on down the road.." Glenn | ||
| Steve "Spanky" Aune (Spanky77707)
Registered Member Username: Spanky77707 Post Number: 9 Registered: 1-2010 Posted From: 75.233.68.42 Rating: N/A |
Interesting info.... thanks, hope I can figure out what to do..... you guys are great! | ||
| H3-40 (Ace)
Registered Member Username: Ace Post Number: 1014 Registered: 10-2004 Posted From: 206.53.147.173  Rating: N/A |
When I had my Eagle I installed 3/8's plywood as a sub ceiling! You have a main frame going front to rear on the roof. I used good sheet metal screws with large flat washers and went in the center of that center main frame rail but only tightened them about half way. Then I took a 4x8 sheet of 3x8's plywood running the 8 foot from front to rear and slid it under the washers to hold it and then took the opposite side against the wall and used an old bumper jack from a car along with a makeshift pole of about 3 or 4 foot made from a wpoden 2x2 and jacked the plywood up and into the curved part of the ceiling until it was flat! Once in place, I secured it at all frame sections! The reason for using the 2x2 was with the jack on the floor, it wouldn't go high enough to put the sheet up against the ceiling! You can weld an extension on the jack attachment to do the same thing but mine was borrowed so that option was out! Once I had the sub ceiling up, my options for covering were almost endless! I opted at that time to use FRP white textured wall board from HD and served me well and looked good too! Whatever you use, think about ease of keeping it clean! Ace | ||
| Nellie Wilson (Vivianellie)
Registered Member Username: Vivianellie Post Number: 443 Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 74.4.63.215 Rating: N/A |
Hey Steve, Gee, I must have reply to your email in my dreams and thought it went through!  I LOVE your song, it's really beautiful! Check your email, I'll send you one of mine! Nellie |