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Flattening curled Pressed Board Panels #1
Stephen B Stephen Bryant Calgary, AB, Canada Sign in to contact	Topic Creator (OP) Oct 1, 2012 12:09 PM Top Contributor Joined 13 years ago 96 Posts

Hello all,
as some of you may know the thick pressed card panels used for door panels, parcel trays, glove boxes and rear heel boards eventually end up warped and curled in places. Apart from this the panel is totally usable.

Anyone managed to flatten these out so that they are usable and if you did, how did you do it?

I have some ideas that I think should work but would be interested to hear from others to see if they have similar methods, and if these produced the desired results.

Thanks,
Steve

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Re: Flattening curled Pressed Board Panels #2
bufferzone Gord Smith-Ritchie Surfside Colony, CA, USA Sign in to contact 1967 Morris Minor Traveller	Oct 1, 2012 01:31 PM Joined 14 years ago 639 Posts

hi, I hosed mine down until they were fairly damp, then placed them on a flat surface, then placed a board on top and then placed heavy weights on top of that, all in the sun to help dry quick. This took out quite a bit of warping. I also did this with my gloveboxes. The door cards I left the vinyl on, then reglued the edges onto the back and they look like new. Cheers!

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Re: Flattening curled Pressed Board Panels #3
old redoubtable alex wilds columbia sc, USA Sign in to contact 1959 Morris Minor Traveller "Old Redoubtable" 1959 Morris Minor Traveller "Old Redoubtable"	Oct 21, 2012 07:25 PM Joined 13 years ago 183 Posts

Mine are curly, too, but were recovered, rather well, with foam and vinyl. When I get around to it I shall use the old ones as patterns for new thin plywood panels, and will transfer the current foam and vinyl to them. My car, while quite stock in most respects, is not a restoration project, and the plywood should be flatter and stronger than the original equipment.

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