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Old 11-12-2012, 03:36 PM
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Default Back on the trail for fluted stainless siding for my vintage bus

Hi,

It's been over a year since I looked into having stainless panels fabricated. In the meantime, my bus has been repowered with modern 350HP Cummins ISC turbo diesel and Allison six speed automatic. The bus has also been taken on multiple test drives to total over 4000 miles!

The bus is now located near Eugene, OR, which is where the interior will be produced. That process should take about 1.5 years and then it should be ready to live in.

Since I last posted here, I attempted to find a place that had a roll-former, but have been unable to find anyone with interest in a job like mine.

If these panels were to be made in six foot lengths, would anyone here who has a pullmax think they could successfully produce what I'm looking for while keeping it nice and straight? Assume that 22 or 24 gauge stainless would be used.

Sorry for adding to such an old post. I just thought it would be best to continue this one since it has all the background information in the previous entries.

Thanks!

-Ben
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