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I don't know how useful this would be in redoing a Sunrader, but redoing a gutted stick built it just might be the right stuff.

https://www.palram.com/us/product/duraclad/

It's around $32 for a 16"x 8ft or $50 for 16" x 12ft

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The only data I could find said the Duraclad PVC density was 87 pounds/cubic foot, so about 116 pounds per 4x8 sheet. The equivalent 4x8 sheet (quantity (3) 24” x 16” sheets) would cost around $300. Were you looking at something different?

 

I had figured that if I needed to ever do a complete refurb, that I would make a press table first and lay up my own panels from thin fiberglass sheets, epoxy bonded to each side of a sheet of urethane foam. Also make thicker panels to use for cabinets and doors. Then use u-channel and corner extrusions, potted in threaded inserts for hinges.

 

The cost of the cutting might be worth finding a cabinet shop with a cnc router, and paying them to do the messy dusty part. The plywood parts for the press table could also be done that way.

 

 

 

 

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I'm right in the middle of stick building mine from scratch.  If accurate, those weight and cost numbers are insane and make my Baltic Birch plywood for upcoming cabinets seem like a steal!!  

 

FYI, the wall panels themselves are actually not that difficult to make out of 1/8" mahogany and styrofoam and I realize that's the point of this thread.  The actual wall panels.  The absolute critical thing is not to be a nimrod when you are removing the factory interior like so many Youtubers.  You see these people ripping out the walls with crowbars, crushing them and tossing them in a pile outside, where they snap pictures of themselves in front of a pile of now kindling.  Which an hour ago were excellent patterns for the new walls.

 

Doing these walls without a pattern would add excruciating hours to a total rebuild.  

 

Anyhow, I'm about to start the stick building of the cabinets and think I've finally found a way to do it quickly and efficiently with a construction laser I bought for my deck project last summer.  I will post how that works on my thread.

 

One final comment on this ABS material is that the wall panel must go UNDER the aluminum window frames when you are rebuilding.  Those frames hold the wall panels in place, and I can't see how you'd get these 1/2" thick panels under them without figuring out longer screws, and the resulting shrinking of the interior space, storage space, etc to allow for that thick of a material.

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13 hours ago, Ssunrader said:

The only data I could find said the Duraclad PVC density was 87 pounds/cubic foot, so about 116 pounds per 4x8 sheet. The equivalent 4x8 sheet (quantity (3) 24” x 16” sheets) would cost around $300. Were you looking at something different?

 

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A 4x8 equivalent weighs 29lb and would cost $99 if you bought 8' lengths

https://www.farmtek.com/prod/duracladr-interlocking-multiwall-panel-16-w-x-96-l.html

Edited by WME

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