Re: Traveler Lift gate

[Daniel Youngquist <dany@domain.elided>]

On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, Rob Marks wrote:

> Your right there looks like a perfect cut line but don't do it.  The
> two piece Traveler hatch back is bonded together and forms a strong
> "box structure".  Cutting this open weakens the part.  Besides leaking
> and having no room to put in a latch yada yada yada...  I have seen
> several of these attempts and they all fail miserably. 

It seems like it couldn't be too hard to make a frame out of channel
iron or something, and make it as strong & stiff as you want.  Do you
know if anyone's tried that?

How about making a whole new liftgate from a piece of Plexiglas?  Or
maybe polycarbonate, so it's bulletproof. :)  I haven't looked closely
at a Traveler top to see if it'd work, though.

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