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door panel help
Thursday, January 14, 2010 3:43 PM
I wanna seperate my cavy door panels so I can do some custom work, what I mean is seperate the top and bottom not the arm rest part, how do they come apart and once apart how do I put them back together? I am sure some people have done this and any help would be greatly appreciated






Re: door panel help
Thursday, January 14, 2010 3:51 PM
IIRC they have plastic welds holding them together. You might have to epoxy them back together.



Re: door panel help
Thursday, January 14, 2010 3:53 PM
what kind of epoxy?





Re: door panel help
Thursday, January 14, 2010 3:54 PM
OK what does iirc mean? its bugging me,sorry not to thread jack.



Re: door panel help
Thursday, January 14, 2010 4:06 PM
if i remember correctly lol I always asked that for a year lol





Re: door panel help
Thursday, January 14, 2010 5:55 PM
just that 2 part stuff that comes in the syringe at the store, or maybe a better bet would be liquid nails or something of the sort from a hardware store.



Re: door panel help
Thursday, January 14, 2010 10:22 PM
or if you know someone with a plastic welder


Re: door panel help
Thursday, January 14, 2010 10:25 PM
ok so what is best suggested to use to remove the two pieces? drill the welds out cut the welds out or somehow melt the welds?





Re: door panel help
Friday, January 15, 2010 12:02 PM
ive used a heat gun to melt the welds, then remelt them back together when we were done. worked great, you just have to do it like welding. do diffrent ones so you dont get one area to hot. get the entire piece to hot and you could warp the panel.


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Re: door panel help
Friday, January 15, 2010 1:19 PM
awesome thanks I will try that tonight If it comes apart ok then I will start my door panel thread lol





Re: door panel help
Friday, January 15, 2010 5:16 PM
Plastic welding.

zip ties and a heated/torched flat head screw driver...... the cheap way to do it...
heat guns can be used or you can use a soldering iron too..

or

youtube can be your best friend when it comes to odd jobs.

few examples
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YiuRy4tSMU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjSIkFvFMPs

The concepts are there... Heat and more plastic.








Re: door panel help
Friday, January 15, 2010 7:28 PM
Spencer wrote:just that 2 part stuff that comes in the syringe at the store, or maybe a better bet would be liquid nails or something of the sort from a hardware store.


if using some sort of adhesive i would recommend loctite powergrab. would be a way better alternative to liquid nails, sndsgood has already pretty much answered the question but i'm just throwin that out there, it's a bit more expensive but well worth it from what i've seen.



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