Love it! Had a chuckle at your optimism "Probably won't go wrong". Super cute! I am also EXTREMELY impressed by your ingenuity (and your bravado!), you give me faith in my ability to make my own pop-top roof!
I can't praise you enough for deciding to fabricate your own pop top in aluminium and for sharing your experiences on TH-cam! I particularly respect your openness about what, why and how you're doing this, and you will inspire many others to consider doing this for themselves, rather than pay ludicrous sums of money to someone else! I'm happy to have found your channel and o have subscribed.
I thought that you were going to get it fitted, I know they are expensive hence the reason I didn't go down that route and I'm not sure I would gain anything as I have stayed in our van several times now and height is not an issue. I would be concerned that the aluminium is not one sheet, just another place to leak. What about covering it with fibre glass or similar when complete? Hope it all goes to plan mate as once you cut that roof there is no going back.
Good job we are extending roof on our van but not making pop top we are using 80/20 and aluminium One question why didn't you put aluminium going on sideways overlaping at join so you would not have any chance of leaks where joining lengthways like you have done you could have issue with leaking in future
This is like 500 bucks of aluminum if you get it at home depot. Go ask a local scrap dealer if you can buy metal by the pound, some will. Then you can find aluminum and get it for a lot cheaper. You can't get exactly what you want but sometimes you get lucky.
Love it! Had a chuckle at your optimism "Probably won't go wrong". Super cute! I am also EXTREMELY impressed by your ingenuity (and your bravado!), you give me faith in my ability to make my own pop-top roof!
I can't praise you enough for deciding to fabricate your own pop top in aluminium and for sharing your experiences on TH-cam!
I particularly respect your openness about what, why and how you're doing this, and you will inspire many others to consider doing this for themselves, rather than pay ludicrous sums of money to someone else!
I'm happy to have found your channel and o have subscribed.
Any chance of a blueprint? This is awesome
You are very brave. Mine is 10 years older than yours and I would still be terrified if cutting a huge hole in the roof.
I thought that you were going to get it fitted, I know they are expensive hence the reason I didn't go down that route and I'm not sure I would gain anything as I have stayed in our van several times now and height is not an issue.
I would be concerned that the aluminium is not one sheet, just another place to leak. What about covering it with fibre glass or similar when complete?
Hope it all goes to plan mate as once you cut that roof there is no going back.
Ya ever heard of welding. You could easily put the roof back on it would be silly but you could
Nice work 👍
You crazy 😂😢😅, i would get a truck tuned and cover, and go from there 😂😢😅
Good job we are extending roof on our van but not making pop top we are using 80/20 and aluminium
One question why didn't you put aluminium going on sideways overlaping at join so you would not have any chance of leaks where joining lengthways like you have done you could have issue with leaking in future
Yes the join was an issue, I think I'll look at putting fibreglass waterproofing on over using more metal though
I am about to do this and was going the 80/20 route as well. Do you have any pics on your build?
How did you seal the joint where the two sheets met?
This is like 500 bucks of aluminum if you get it at home depot. Go ask a local scrap dealer if you can buy metal by the pound, some will. Then you can find aluminum and get it for a lot cheaper. You can't get exactly what you want but sometimes you get lucky.
Why didn’t u just weld it
Wish I had done!