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Old 08-08-2018, 08:39 PM
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Post 2, to finish the grouping of pictures......

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I really wanted to make sure the side roof rails that I had fabricated were "structurally sound" to the front header. After welding the rail as normal, I fabricated some doubling plates (top, outside & inside) that tied the header and the rails together.

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Inside doubling plate

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After the rails and headers were all welded I cleaned up all the surfaces that will never be accessible once the roof skin is installed and metal etched them and added weld thru primer where I would be welding eventually.

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Now it was time to put the roof skin on for the final time! Here I've started welding and blending the corners into the windshield header and post.

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Same was done on the driver's side as well as fitting the skin and tacking it across the width of the front.

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Here the front seam has been fully welded and I worked my welds as best as I could (this was inaccessible from the backside as it's nearly tight up against the windshield header inner structure)

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Another view of the front joint all finished.

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With the front and sides all welded into position it was time to start final fitting the rear roof corner and sail panel that I had previously shaped up. With everything fitting good enough, it was time to bite the bullet and weld it in place.

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Welded and now working the weld seams and doing some metalwork.

As a note: The rear edge along the rear window opening will not be welded at this time as I still need to modify / change the opening for how I plan to set the glass and trim. I'll work on that once both sides of the roof are welded into position.

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The remaining pictures are of the rear corner about 95% metal worked (that last 5% is the hardest part for me....grr) I'll leave that for later as I still have plenty of welding to do for the other rear corner as well as the rear window modifications....after all that welding, I'll go back and get the remaining metalwork as good as I can.

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Just for fun I'll post this pic (flipped horizontally so it's the same orientation as the other pictures) to help see the difference from where I started to where I am currently.
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