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Port Hole Trim... | Joined: Jul 2011 Posts: 492 addict | OP addict Joined: Jul 2011 Posts: 492 | Howdy. So I'm about to put some paneling in my interior and came to the realization that once I screw it into the pillars, the paneling will stick out from my ports by about 1" - 2" instead of being flush with it Basically, when I bought the van, someone had already ripped out the interior and in the process took out the trim rings for my ports... those trim rings are long gone as far as I know. Anybody have any tips / ideas / examples for how to bridge that annoying little gap bwetween my panelling and ports? It's a 73 B100. Thanks in advance.
-Andrew
Bramble On! | | | Re: Port Hole Trim... | Joined: Aug 2011 Posts: 522 addict | addict Joined: Aug 2011 Posts: 522 | | | | Re: Port Hole Trim... | Joined: May 2006 Posts: 3,113 Likes: 2 pooh-bah | pooh-bah Joined: May 2006 Posts: 3,113 Likes: 2 | i still have that gap on mine. every now and then i look at it but still haven't decided what to do myself. | | | Re: Port Hole Trim... | Joined: Aug 2008 Posts: 18,213 Likes: 2 Supreme Master | Supreme Master Joined: Aug 2008 Posts: 18,213 Likes: 2 | Make some cool wooden trim rings
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Owner & Creator of Wizard's Van-In Videos Member of Riding High Truckers from 1982 to 1996 2nd Member of The Toopa Sinner Tribe Member of Free Bird Vanners 1996 to Present Member of Cape Atlantic Truckers South Jersey Host Club of Freeze Out Certified Nats Judge Member of Shenandoah Valley Vans | | | Re: Port Hole Trim... | Joined: May 2006 Posts: 3,113 Likes: 2 pooh-bah | pooh-bah Joined: May 2006 Posts: 3,113 Likes: 2 | I put my portholes in with the trim rings reversed. I needed to get them in so no weather could get in and I knew I wasn't gonna get to the interior right away. Now that I put my interior in I can't get access to the screws and put the rings on the correct way. Never really thought about taking off the rings when I put my interior together and putting them on the right way. I just wasn't thinking in my case. | | | Re: Port Hole Trim... | Joined: Jul 2011 Posts: 492 addict | OP addict Joined: Jul 2011 Posts: 492 | My ports apparently had a second set of trim rings (sorry if I'm not explaining as well as I want!) that look as though they were designed to come outward from the wall to come flush with the panelling once it was screwed into the pillars. In any case, there's a gap.
Thinking I might be able to do something with wood as suggested above. I was thinking making some balsa wood to fill in the depth of the gap, then trim it with a nice wood ring.
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