Adhesive for attaching Filon to roof
Howdy all. I have been working over the past few months on repairing my pop up truck camper after the roof had an RUD (Rapid Unscheduled Dissassembly). I've been reading up on all my options for get...
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From what I've read I need to find a water based or other similar type based adhesive. The solvent based ones are the ones that seem to melt the foam.
The old material was glued down very well. I was able to peel it off but it took some work to do pulling on large pieces and working with a putty knife.
All of my curves are in the same plane, no compound curves to deal with.
Here's before shot and an after shot of how the front repair turned out. Before the front was a laminated ply/osb 'wood' with white sheet aluminum on the inside and outside, I imagine just like the rear picture below...
The repair was using PVC board with many cuts to make it fit in all the right places...
And then screwed in place. I took a sander to the edge to make it match the contour of the side panels.
Here's a shot of the rear when I took it apart. You can see where it was glued to the roof and the rear most rib but not to the curved down portion. The flex roof was tucked into the rear trim and mostly held in place by trim screws from the drip chanel and rear clearance lights. This is one of the things that let it curve over the rear nicely.
Here you can see the air gap behind the rear curve down.
The old material was glued down very well. I was able to peel it off but it took some work to do pulling on large pieces and working with a putty knife.
All of my curves are in the same plane, no compound curves to deal with.
Here's before shot and an after shot of how the front repair turned out. Before the front was a laminated ply/osb 'wood' with white sheet aluminum on the inside and outside, I imagine just like the rear picture below...
The repair was using PVC board with many cuts to make it fit in all the right places...
And then screwed in place. I took a sander to the edge to make it match the contour of the side panels.
Here's a shot of the rear when I took it apart. You can see where it was glued to the roof and the rear most rib but not to the curved down portion. The flex roof was tucked into the rear trim and mostly held in place by trim screws from the drip chanel and rear clearance lights. This is one of the things that let it curve over the rear nicely.
Here you can see the air gap behind the rear curve down.
