ubtripn
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I had a sagging headliner and I do not like the design. I tried to re-activate the glue with a wet towel and hand iron, only worked for a while. I then removed it with the intent of removing the cover, then scrape the padding and then paint the cardboard. (I decided to do this because there was once a guy selling plastic replacement headliners but none are available for our models.)
Anyway, it went bad. The cover came right off but the headliner cardboard is laminated layers of thin paper. The padding would not come off without pulling part of the layers up. I gave up and decided to just coated the padding with 3m spray to hold it together then painted it black. It looks a lot better but I am not happy with it.
I am going to pull it out and coat it in a couple layers of fiberglass, sand and paint.
Has anybody ever done this? I do not want it to heavy and I don't know if mold-able ABS would work.
What are you opinions?
p.s. I will not be casting a mold, I want to cover the existing weak cardboard with fiberglass, not so much that its heavy but enough to make it a shell.
Thanks for any input.
Anyway, it went bad. The cover came right off but the headliner cardboard is laminated layers of thin paper. The padding would not come off without pulling part of the layers up. I gave up and decided to just coated the padding with 3m spray to hold it together then painted it black. It looks a lot better but I am not happy with it.
I am going to pull it out and coat it in a couple layers of fiberglass, sand and paint.
Has anybody ever done this? I do not want it to heavy and I don't know if mold-able ABS would work.
What are you opinions?
p.s. I will not be casting a mold, I want to cover the existing weak cardboard with fiberglass, not so much that its heavy but enough to make it a shell.
Thanks for any input.