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11-18-2007, 05:28 PM
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Carpet strips hold downs
Does anyone know where I can purchase the front and the back carpet strips?
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11-18-2007, 05:43 PM
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Re: Carpet strips hold downs
I dont think the carpet strips are available in any vendor store yet.
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11-18-2007, 05:51 PM
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Re: Carpet strips hold downs
That's What I seem to believe. Do you know if they are alum or steel? If they were aluminum. And I could get a set I could have dies made to reproduce them very easily.
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11-18-2007, 06:40 PM
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11-18-2007, 10:04 PM
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Re: Carpet strips hold downs
That's kinda what I figured. Wonder in people would be intrested in alum instead of steel. I'm thinking of designing an extrusion made for the part between the tailgate and the hatch. Bought one from lmc, Piece of crap, two pieces of metal spot welded together, burn thru, rusted. can't say enough. thanks CB
Last edited by 71BlazzinOrange; 11-18-2007 at 10:06 PM. Reason: thanking cb |
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11-18-2007, 11:48 PM
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Re: Carpet strips hold downs
Stainless steel would be very nice if they could be made out of that.
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11-19-2007, 12:20 PM
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Re: Carpet strips hold downs
The carpet strips don't seem like they would be hard to reproduce and I'm sure you'd have a few takers on the board to help off-set the cost.
The piece at the top edge of my tailgate, as far as I can tell, is one piece and painted the body color. I've never taken it off to see if it is welded or not.
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11-19-2007, 06:05 PM
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Re: Carpet strips hold downs
Just got back from the bone yard and investigated 2 blazers & 1 jimmy, Lmc absolutely sent me the wrong part, What they sent me I don't know. I just checked their p/n with the label & picture on pg 36 of cb49 and it matches. Shure is not what I saw on two of them. It was a straight piece with little offset. describing the tailgate to hatch strip.
The GMC has the carpet strips but was full of parts. Made a deal with the owner to get those and the seats next sat. I design small dies and have made up @ work for $500.00. But we always push aluminum. Maybe alum can be chromed? I'll check on that next week when I pick up my tow hooks. I could not get the tailgate down on the gmc so I could not check out the original carpet strip @ the bottom. Does that piece kinda look like a Y shape maybe this is what I was sent by mistake? Last edited by 71BlazzinOrange; 11-20-2007 at 11:34 AM. |
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11-19-2007, 06:26 PM
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Re: Carpet strips hold downs
Took some photo's of what i got. OPPS must not of put a bag around it before its foamed in a box big enough to move a small frig. *Just being a little sarcastic*
   Is this the right piece for 1969 & 1070 maybe? Last edited by 71BlazzinOrange; 11-20-2007 at 11:28 AM. Reason: image postions |
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11-20-2007, 09:22 AM
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Re: Carpet strips hold downs
1969 and 1970 used a wider, flatter design than the 1971 and 1972 strips. Both are tough to find.
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11-28-2007, 10:50 PM
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Re: Carpet strips hold downs
Well went bone yard huntin again & found 1 good carpet strip, 1 good hatch to tailgate strip. The tailgate hatch strip had less rust in it from the one LMC shipped, poor reproduction. Going to get the original chromed. Now if anyone is seriously interested in getting carpet strips made of of 6061-T6 alum replica let me know. I check with the chroming outfit and they said they alum could do it but it was expensive. I thought why not polish it like a manifold? Now I don't know anything about polishing aluminum, but I bet this can be done. Something like $40.00 bucks each, UN polished and no holes or notches. I can make up drawings detailing the holes/locations/size & notching info from the originals. I did not see a difference from the front strip compared to the back strip?
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11-29-2007, 04:22 PM
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Re: Carpet strips hold downs
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considered making an Aluminum version. It can be anodized, but not chromed. The Aluminum is cheap, just getting the die paid for sucks.
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11-29-2007, 05:31 PM
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11-29-2007, 06:11 PM
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Re: Carpet strips hold downs
Not to throw a monkey wrench in, but my carpet hold downs are stainless. They are all scratched up, but could be polished up. Either that or they are chromed and have stayed pretty nice after 30 some odd years which I can't believe after the shape my Blazer was in.
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11-29-2007, 09:22 AM
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Re: Carpet strips hold downs
Can you shoot a pic or two of the hatch to tailgate strip that you just got? My top is missing that part and I'd like to see what it looks like.
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11-29-2007, 10:42 AM
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Re: Carpet strips hold downs
Yukon, I will take a picture & upload when I get home.
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11-29-2007, 05:18 PM
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Re: Carpet strips hold downs
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  It's a one piece design with a tight hem. This also could be extruded. 
Last edited by 71BlazzinOrange; 11-29-2007 at 05:19 PM. |
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12-01-2007, 10:25 PM
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Re: Carpet strips hold downs
So can anyone reproduce carpet strips?? I have a set I would send if I got bot back a reproduced set and my originals.. Yukon you still need that top part??
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12-02-2007, 06:40 AM
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Re: Carpet strips hold downs
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A die is about $300, and it would be a 500lb minimum at or around $2 a lb.  (We would also have to have a CAD drawing of the shape for the die design)
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12-02-2007, 05:26 PM
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Re: Carpet strips hold downs
I will try to get a cross section drawn up for the material weight next week. Next week I have 4 days of Solidwork training. I don't believe we need to push that much material from our supplier. Maybe thats why our dies cost a little more.
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12-02-2007, 05:37 PM
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12-03-2007, 01:53 AM
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12-03-2007, 03:44 AM
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Re: Carpet strips hold downs
I'd be interested in this if someone were to reproduce it.
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12-03-2007, 03:01 PM
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Re: Carpet strips hold downs
I would buy one as well. I can also do the CAD (SolidWorks) work if I needed to help. Sounds like y'all got that under control though.
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12-02-2007, 08:17 AM
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Re: Carpet strips hold downs
Just go to the junk yard and get one from a 91 down suburban. It will be too long so you will have to cut it down to fit. This is for the rear and I don't know what you would do about the front. I did this to mine back when it had interior in it
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