I have started to remake (slowly) my expedition rack out of aluminum. Most of the pieces I have made and/or bent up, just need to decide on a length and final layout.
As can be seen in the pictures I made flip down light covers. I made them for now to operate with air cylinders which work perfectly but for simplicity think I will switch to linear actuators. My thoughts now when I get to painting it, are to stencil the Hella stuff on the cover plates. I had thought of contact cementing the plastic covers on, but in the past I have had to replace the plastic covers because they get beat looking pretty quick. The side toward the lights will be black. Any other thoughts? I have read that some sort of stencil material can be purchased at hobby shops and a computer generated image can be printed on it, then cut out. Anyone familiar with a way to do this?
Pictures - covers closed, covers open, rear view with covers open.
Bill
As can be seen in the pictures I made flip down light covers. I made them for now to operate with air cylinders which work perfectly but for simplicity think I will switch to linear actuators. My thoughts now when I get to painting it, are to stencil the Hella stuff on the cover plates. I had thought of contact cementing the plastic covers on, but in the past I have had to replace the plastic covers because they get beat looking pretty quick. The side toward the lights will be black. Any other thoughts? I have read that some sort of stencil material can be purchased at hobby shops and a computer generated image can be printed on it, then cut out. Anyone familiar with a way to do this?
Pictures - covers closed, covers open, rear view with covers open.
Bill