I ask as i really need to get mine finished so just looking at what others have done.
Mine is a '72 danbury, straight up lift.
A few years ago I made a new canvas with vent and windows using acrylic canvas. It's waterproof and looks great. Some friends who do magic with stainless steel are attempting to make new telescopic struts to replace the rusty old ones and i've polished up the alloy brackets.
The only real issue is the inside is flocking.
It's 50 years old and anytime it is touched it snows fine bits/dust everywhere.
I'm not confident that DIY flocking is going to turn out uniform over such a large area and it would be really obvious if it went wrong.
I doubt a fabric material would stay stuck on over time, most glues soften with hot summer sun.
I had two options:
Find somewhere that does flocking on a large scale and pay through the nose + have to transport an old GRP roof back and forth. This is not really viable.
Or, remove the roof, sand off the flocking, glass fibre wood battens going across the roof, (flat across the middle then angled/sloping either side as the roof curves), make three long fabric headliners from 6mm ply to fix to the battens to cover everything within the canvas.
This will leave a small void above which can be lagged with 3m space blanket and allows the liners to have lighting fitted in them.
As the canvas doesn't come anywhere near the roof edges I was just going to gelcoat the overhang to pretty it up.
This option looks good as it's all stuff I have done for my work at times, so not really a challenge and all the materials are good quality and mates rates or free.
What do you guys think?
Anyone done this before?
