Side Curtains

[john4337]

Some of you followed my hard top project. Part 2 of that was side curtains. A friend loaned me a set of Europa spare’s frames, but the opening of the top was different and the mounded in flange was in the way so I started from scratch. There were a couple of prototypes that didn’t work out, but I eventually ended up with this design. In essence it is 3 inch wide sheet aluminum bent to serve as a lower flange/lower track combination. The main piece is 1/8 polycarbonate. A 1/8 x 1/2 inch aluminum piece was bent on edge to serve as the upper frame/spacer and another piece of polycarbonate was cut 3/4 inch wide to create the upper channel for a sliding section of polycarbonate. A buddy machined 5/8 stainless bolts and drilled into ferrules them to accept 3/8 inch rod as pins. The aluminum pieces were cover in vinyl to dress things up a bit.

Initial window blank


Testing flange angle


Bending the flanges


Ferrules and pin




Layout for ferrules


Really scary part


Big holes in the door


More photos next post