Re: Custom Clipper window garnish molding
Posted by HH56 On 2016/9/22 10:48:34
Wes, Thanks for the additional photos confirming the pattern. Decided to try my hand at making a custom sized roller so have ordered some very soft casting silicone to make one slightly narrower and smaller than the real ones to better fit the corners. It may not fly so at least the GrainIt wide rollers are still an option if it bombs.
When I first got the bug to redo the handpulls a few years ago, IMO, the aquarium tubing I found locally was too large. Don't remember the ID but 3/16 is what most of the websites sell. The wall thickness may have been too thick on that one. By the time it flattened out it was wider and much thicker than the original. I tried splitting it and did not like that look either. Without the back layer it curved a bit when flattened and edges didn't look right. Put the project aside until now. You used the 1/8 and I may too but for the first one am going to try some 3/32 ID clear Tygon tubing with a 1/32 wall from McMaster and see if I like that better. It has a 5/32 OD so am thinking the tubing should flatten to just under 3/16 wide which I think will be very close to the original.
Only molding I have with the wrap still intact is the rear passenger and on that one it looks like the top leans slightly to the left or toward the front of the car. I don't know if they are all the same or maybe mirrored which would make the drivers side lean toward the right. That is another question that I didn't see a definitive answer to on the earlier thread. I think the mirror would look better and will probably do that..
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When I first got the bug to redo the handpulls a few years ago, IMO, the aquarium tubing I found locally was too large. Don't remember the ID but 3/16 is what most of the websites sell. The wall thickness may have been too thick on that one. By the time it flattened out it was wider and much thicker than the original. I tried splitting it and did not like that look either. Without the back layer it curved a bit when flattened and edges didn't look right. Put the project aside until now. You used the 1/8 and I may too but for the first one am going to try some 3/32 ID clear Tygon tubing with a 1/32 wall from McMaster and see if I like that better. It has a 5/32 OD so am thinking the tubing should flatten to just under 3/16 wide which I think will be very close to the original.
Only molding I have with the wrap still intact is the rear passenger and on that one it looks like the top leans slightly to the left or toward the front of the car. I don't know if they are all the same or maybe mirrored which would make the drivers side lean toward the right. That is another question that I didn't see a definitive answer to on the earlier thread. I think the mirror would look better and will probably do that..
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