HI Alan

On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 11:56:02 GMT, "Alan Holmes"
wrote:


"Adrian" wrote in message
.. .
HI All

I'm looking for ways to flatten, and keep flattened, the interior
hardboard-and-vinyl panels on my recently-acquired '64 Morris
Traveller.

At some stage in the past the old girl's let in rainwater, and some of
the interior panels have buckled. The particularly bad areas are along
the top of the doors, just under the window seal - where the panel is
standing a one to two cm away from the door in some places.

Rather than replace the whole lot (I think they're probably original)
- I was wondering about ways of removing the panels and clamping them
flat, to permanantly remove the 'wavyness'...

Wet the back of the panels then clamp them flat, or put a small ridge around
the edge and weights in the centre, this may, or may not put a reverse bump
in the panel.

Yes....
Sounds a bit like one of those things where you end up with with the
same problem as you started with - but the other way round (if you
know what I mean !)

'Tother problem is whether the clamping process would damage the vinyl
covering.....

The problem's most noticeable along the top of the door trim, ISTR
that my old Midget (though it have been another car altogether!) had a
formed channel at the top of the door into which the top edge of the
trim panel slotted - but I don't really want to go redesigning it !

What fun, eh ??

At least the car port got itself built last week (thanks to all who
contibuted on the discussion) - so the Mog is sitting in the dry -
despite the fact that the rain's absolutely chucking it down at the
moment. The joys of an Irish summer !

Regards
Adrian