My son did this for the boot of his car, a major oomf-oomf/doef-doef installation. He took many hours carving ply with a jig saw which kept him out of mischief for many hours.Try cutting +/- 150mm strips of thin ply. Free-hand cut as close as it gets. Then use a steady hand and a pencil and scribe a line while following the curves of the van. A drum sander or even a belt sander is useful for the small gaps.It will take a number of iterations to get this right. Stick the pieces together and there you have a template. Try not to tackle this in one big piece but rather like a puzzle.
Then lay out the puzzle on the required material and trace it off. Not sure how you are going to digitize it, maybe someone else can help. Joe's right, the van is simpler. Erect a vertical reference board in the cargo area some distance from the wall where you intend to build the bulkhead. Draw horizontal lines 10cm apart on the vertical board.
Vw Transporter Ply Lining Templates For Teachers. 2/5/2018 0 Comments This Pin was discovered by Dolores Rader. Discover (and save) your own Pins on Pinterest. Would be interested for info on this too. I'd like a custom bulk head myself. I find myself hopping into the back from the front quite a bit without the bulkhead (if I'm in a tight alley. VW T5 Transporter LWB Camper / Day Van Interior Panels 3.6mm Ply Lining Trim Kit2004 - 20151 x Sliding door panel1 x Opposite sliding door panel (behind drivers seat)2 x Post panels (next to wheel arch)2 x Back Corner Panels (Full Height)1 x Rear Panel (please state either barn door or tailgate on ordering) ORIGINAL VW TEMPLATES, PRE DRILLED FOR VW FIXING CLIPS. Plywood templates for vw transporter - Manufacturers and suppliers of all your van storage needs, including Ply Lining kits, van roof racks and roof bars, Pipe.
Place a yardstick on the line, perpendicular to the vertical board (measure precisely horizontal). Measure to the wall and note the distance on the board.If the van's cargo area is irregular in shape front-to-back, repeat as necessary for each bulkhead.When complete, you have an array of y-z coordinates. You could also do like counter top guys measure the counter tops.
Have small boards that they lay out and glue to get the initial shape. The you could add measure the other variations in the shape. I hope that makes sense.I saw this very often. Granite tops were very popular in my area of Florida (Jax) strips of thin ply hot glued to make templates.
The strips were thin enough to cut with heavy shears or snips. Here's a Video of this for a better description.
Not exactly what your wanting to do but the concept is similar. Anyone else notice that there are only 4 or 5 different pictures of van lining, cropped, cut, flipped and/or recoloured? I would assume that there are only one or two companies in England offering panels that other companies install or that the affiliates send vans to one or two companies to get panels installed.That said, I saw a link at hackaday that you guys might like. It's about cheap and easy 3d scanning. They use it to scan the inside of a room, so it might be able to scan the inside of a van.
Just found this thread I used to be involved in plylining and owned 4 shopbots.We used to get lots of enquiries about the drawings and we wouldn't have had a problem selling them on but nobody wanted to pay a fair price for them.To make the templates for say a ford connect would take upto 10 sheets of 8 x 4 ply to make the initial templates for everything, this includes scribing then cutting by hand and then cutting again to get a decent fit. Then the templates would be Cad drawn or probed and even probed files need tidying up. Then the kit needs to be tested and altered. A year down the line the manufacturer of the van may change the door shape or move a tie down on the floor and you have to realter your drawings. The hole process can take weeks for quality drawings of one model of one van.In total there is 3 years + work for every van combination on the market. Youve got a good memory.
No I havent gone back. I weigh more than a MechMate!Are you still running the refuge trucks?I've quite enjoyed reading this thread. I took about 25% of the pictures in the google images link. I could never get the staff to take any pics when we did a new van.The van lining business is still in the family but I'm no longer involved or an owner.
I now run approx 20 Online Ecommerce websites.From what I've read and seen about the MechMate it seems to be on a par with the Prt Alpha. I am always amazed when I see the show and tell.
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