Inside front cap?

[chazwood]

Does anyone make an inside ceiling front ceiling cap?

[Dreamscape]

Yes, it's called "DIY".

Never saw one but you never know. Most just "Do It Your Own Way".

Good Luck,

Paul

[chazwood]

   huh?

[Tenor]

Chaz,
Did you remove the original?  Are you planning on raising the roof?  Are you going to change the roof cap?  My MCI 7 had the original roof cap removed.  I attached luan to the steel roof ribs.    If you're not changing the roof, I'd leave the original.  Good Luck!

[chazwood]

I'm talking about the inside cap....The one that housed the destination sign, that covered 25% of the passenger windshield. It was blocking my view. I took it out. Not going to raise roof. I guess I could put up Luann....(lots of compound curves) but wondered if anyone made a fiberglass inside cap to cover the whole area nice and smooth.

[Melbo]

I know you had the bus foamed so a little late for this but maybe you can come up with a new idea.

I embedded metal strips in the foam to attach some 1/4 inch plywood to  and cut a LOT of pieces of wood and attached them

as you have observed LOTS of compound curves lots of pieces of wood 

BUT

if you can attach some then the others bridge the spaces between them and can be attached easily as long as you don't expect them to support your big screen tv

Just my way

Melbo

[PP]

Chazwood, this is where seeing what others have done really comes in handy. Check out some of the blogs posted by the ingenious converters here. I used door skins and hardwood trim to hold it all in place, but my front cap has upper windows and is completely different. Good luck, Will

[chazwood]

So bottom line.....no cap.


"Hey Momma, bust out my Popsicle stick collection. We're makin' us one o' dem fancy ceilings."

[buswarrior]

Do I remember a fairly rare "no destination sign" option for the MC8/9?

That's the inside ceiling piece we all crave.... a mirror to the one on the driver's side.

Rats.

happy coaching!
buswarrior

[Dallas]

Hey Chaz..
I would be happy to build you a roof liner for your doodad... but there are a whole bunch of fellers here that work with wood that could do 10 times the job I could.

You reaaaaallllly need to pm cody or phil hendrix or officer Ron!

(sorry Ron, I forgot what rank you are now).

any of these three have more knowledge in the dirty fingernail of the small finger than I ever will when it comes to woodworking.

What you have to figger out is how you are gonna get your bus to them.


Of course, if you want a full conversion and are in the Californication area... check out the BCM website and the hard copy magazine.

From what I've seen of the quality of the R&M stuff, it just isn't up to par with what it use to be. However, they may be able to do something interesting for you.

Dallas

[chazwood]

Well......I'm a custom kitchen cabinet maker by trade, but even I wouldn't want to tackle the compound angles in that ceiling line if I thought there was a single piece ceiling cap made for that area.

What I have decided to do, for now, is use the og fiberglass piece and just clip, cut and modify it to house a small storage space in the upper portion of where the dest. sign bumped out. (and still get my full window view.) I plan on some kind of header material in that whole area anyway, which would easily attach to, and cover up, the OG cap.

[Dallas]

Chaz...

Here's a real secret... shhhh, don't tell anyone...

Do a search on google for antique Airstreams, or check out some of the Tin can Tourist posts.

[chazwood]

Yup! It must be a secret. 

(Unfortunately, it's such a secret, I haven't figured out what you were having me look at. )

[Dallas]

Yup! It must be a secret. 

(Unfortunately, it's such a secret, I haven't figured out what you were having me look at. )

For such a smart feller, you sure make it difficult.

Look at the problems you are having with your interior front ceiling now.

If you were looking at another bus, where would you look?

Hint: Front

Look how Airstream, Avion, Nashua and many others radiused the corners.

Another hint.. look for the travel trailers of the mid to pre 60's and back into the 40's They used wood for the interior, not bendy board or anything else.

Dallas

[chazwood]

Oh. That. OK. Thanks.