Plywood Headliner

[bigbadsteve]

I have a 79 Twin Slider Tintop which at the minute has no headliner.

 I want to fit a plywood headliner but have no idea what thickness ply to use. 

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.



Thats my youngest Molly, her labour charges are very reasonable 

[scottyb28]

im in the progress of doing the same thing, using 3 mill ply wood i think, got enough bend to follow the curve, not sure how i am going to fit it yet though

[72wilma]

Hiya guys, i have an original ply headliner and there is a metal U shaped gutter that runs along both sides of the van where the sides meet the roof. Try and find a photo of a westy continental interior to see what I mean.

When you fit the ply it needs to be inserted into the gutter along one side then pulled down (away from the roof )so that it bends and you can fit the other side into the gutter.

Simples  in theory anyway!

It took us about 7 hours to figure out that you need to bend the ply away from the roof to get it to fit into the  gutter... doh. Hope this helps. Ply headliners are proper cool 

[bigbadsteve]

Patience is not my strong point 

So cheers for the advice dude.   

Got my 3mm Russian Birch Plywood, so gonna give it a go on Sunday.

Any chance you can post some pics up of yours 72Wilma ?

[72wilma]

Hiya Steve, looking at the photo of your van it doesn't look like you have the gutter I was talking about, but I am sure it will be easy to fabricate. Or you could possibly just fix the ply with screws?
I'm camping in the van this weekend so I will try and remember to take some photos
Julie

[bigbadsteve]

Thanx 

[72wilma]

sorry it's taken so long to load the photo Steve. here is the little gutter I was talking about



Originally it is metal colour but I have painted mine. You would probably be able to salvage it off a scrapper, but i also imagine it would be just as easy to fabricate
Hope this helps, Julie

[bigbadsteve]

Thanks Julie,

Managed to fit mine last weekend,will a post a piccy when i get chance.

Thanks again

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