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Re: Skin-on-Frame: Ideas for front deck
By:bill stupak
Date: 9/12/2009, 3:44 pm
In Response To: Re: Skin-on-Frame: Ideas for front deck (Bill Hamm)

: The only realistic way to get a fair curve in a SOF is to have the fabric run
: to a curved bulkhead/frame and then to the bow, stretched between the two.
: But that also means it'll be unsupported over it's entire length. If the
: deck beams are close to the unsupported fabric I suppose it won't matter
: except it'll tend to vibrate when it's on the car.

: Bill H.

I think the fabric will only stay curved that way for a very short distance, it would flatten out even before it got to the foot rest area. On a regular SOF wherever the deck stringers stop is where the skin flattens out.

Bill

Messages In This Thread

Skin-on-Frame: Ideas for front deck
bill stupak -- 9/12/2009, 9:53 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Ideas for front deck
Bill Hamm -- 9/12/2009, 12:55 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Ideas for front deck
bill stupak -- 9/12/2009, 3:44 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Ideas for front deck
Kudzu -- 9/12/2009, 11:47 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Ideas for front deck
Bill Hamm -- 9/13/2009, 8:39 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Ideas for front deck
Bill Hamm -- 9/12/2009, 3:58 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Ideas for front deck
Bill Hamm -- 9/12/2009, 3:59 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Ideas for front deck *Pic*
Kudzu -- 9/12/2009, 10:25 am