My GU Canopy Build Up

[GUtsy ute]

GUtsy ute, firstly.....great setup. But a couple of questions if you please....did you do the ally welding on your setup and if so what with.

The glass and coffee cup holder looks like a piece of styrofoam with holes in it and carpet glued to it, did you have any drama gluing the carpet directly to the styrofoam and did you use a hole saw to cut the holes? Love the idea by the way, I would like to do something like this for our camper tailer.

Cheers

Greg

Hi Greg,

Yes I did the welding on the setup, some of it with the mig and some with the HF tig.
I hadn't done any ally welding for quite a few years before this project, so was quite rusty
but got the hang of it in the end.

The cup and glass holder is made from a shredded plastic type foam which is as light as
styrofoam but not brittle and easily damaged as styrofoam.
You can't damage it by handling it.
It is used for packing and cushioning fragile goods during transport.
Yes, I used holesaws to cut out the holes and found they cut the foam more cleanly
by going in reverse.
I used contact cement to glue the carpet on, holds really well.

The foam came in machinery packing crates from Germany, so I don't know where to source
it here.