That looks really sharp.
Unfortunatley, my vents have a piece of aluminum riveted on over the
plastic, lots of holes.
I replaced one that I broke the lifter screw on with a fantastic fan,
in clear
rlb wrote:
>
> Daisy,
>
> I did something similar to my vents.
>
> http://64.33.167.222/airstream/chapter02.html
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> bobb
>
>
>
> D Welch wrote:
>
> > Dan,
> > My 73 has two layers of plastic, one that is inset on the outside
> > and
> > another larger one inside. I do like my clear fantastic fan, maybe I
> >
> > will do your trick to the old vents.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Daisy
> >
> > Dan Weeks wrote:
> > >
> > > For five bucks in plexi and a few more in rivets, I turned my
> > three roof
> > > vents into skylights, and love the results. Here's what I did:
> > >
> > > My center vent had a white translucent plexi piece riveted onto
> > the top of
> > > the vent--I don't know whether this was original or a previous
> > modification.
> > > It had been damaged and taped over with aluminum tape. I pulled
> > off the tape
> > > and the old plastic, made a template of the plastic, took it to
> > the local
> > > hardware store, and had them duplicate it three times in 3/16"
> > clear plexi.
> > > They cut it out, ground the corners to radius and all for $5.30.
> > Then pulled
> > > off the other two roof vents, used the one with the existing hole
> > to scribe
> > > lines on the other two, sabre-sawed out the opening, filed the
> > edges. Then
> > > punched and drilled 1/8" holes every 1.5" around the edge of the
> > opening,
> > > ran a THIN bead of Vulkem 116 caulk around the edge, and riveted
> > the plexi
> > > on over the caulk bead. Cracked one ever so slightly where the
> > caulk was too
> > > thick when pulling one rivet tight, but otherwise no problems.
> > Couldn't find
> > > closed-end rivets with the right grip range, so just dabbed the
> > top of the
> > > rivets with a bit of vulkem. They're tight, really lighten up the
> > interior,
> > > and cost a hell of a lot less than the $57/per vent Airstream
> > quoted me for
> > > plastic translucent vent covers. Plus, it's cool to look up and
> > see clouds
> > > and stars. Whole project took a couple hours. The plexi is exactly
> > the same
> > > dimensions as the flat top part of the vent cover; the cutout
> > follows the
> > > outline of the edge of that flat part, a half-inch in from the
> > edge,
> > > allowing the plexi to overlap the aluminum half an inch. Since it
> > follows
> > > the original contour and the rivets are neatly and evenly spaced,
> > it looks
> > > like the cover came that way. While I had them apart, I buffed up
> > the inside
> > > of the vent covers to a nice shine, and oiled the opener
> > mechanism.
> > >
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