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Old 11-27-2022, 02:23 AM   #10
leegreen
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Re: speaker/ashtray delete, need hard ware ideas

made a larger opening with smaller radiuses, cut a new door.
Cobbled up a hinge design using cereal box CAD and welded it together.
The blue line is the factory speaker grill opening
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it actual opens and closes and the radio fits
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Got brave and cut up the face plate. Little trimming of the upper edge of the hole and stuck the cut off piece on with tape
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Have some more tidying of edges to do.
My plan is to cut a section of the hinged 'test piece' and spot weld it to the back of the face plate . Will take a bit more fiddling to get the door flush, but this is working out so far.
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