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Silver Member Username: Sx3Rockford, Illinois USA Post Number: 343 Registered: Mar-05 | Just wondering if there was any special way to carpet a box. Where do you start and how should you cut out the pices of carpet? |
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Gold Member Username: Dustin3Tigard, OR U.S. Post Number: 3570 Registered: Oct-05 | there are a ton of ways. you can use a razor blade or scissors to cut the carpet. you take one big peice, wrape it around the front, bottom, back and top, with all the extrahangin off the sides... then you make sure that the two sides overlape eachother on the bottom of the box (when doin to front back bottom and top, since thats what you cover first) and then in THE middle of the overlaped peices, you cut all the way across the whole box, so that the edges will fit together perfectly.. then the side of the box, has a bunch of diff ways |
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Silver Member Username: Sx3Rockford, Illinois USA Post Number: 347 Registered: Mar-05 | What are a couple ways for the sides? lol |
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Gold Member Username: Dustin3Tigard, OR U.S. Post Number: 3573 Registered: Oct-05 | well, the way i like (which rovin helped me with) was to draw a BIG X across the whole side of the box from one top corner, to the oppsote bottom corner. then you take the overlaped carpet, and basically cet the carpet to fit each triangle that the X makes.. |
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Gold Member Username: TheelfkeeperStockbridge, GA USA Post Number: 3048 Registered: Feb-05 | www.bcae1.com has a section a covering boxes. theres another way which i like best shown there. but just try to put all the seams where they wont be seen. usually left and right sides and bottom, sometimes back...just depends on the install. |
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Gold Member Username: RovinTrinidad & T... Post Number: 9164 Registered: Jul-05 | aaaah BM3 u finally got it right after i had 2 explain a few times - its kinda hard 2 explain in words but glad u got through with it ya that bcae1 wording/diagrams is very good when i was 1st doing mine yrs ago i had 2 figure it out on my own also on www.the12volt.com i cant remember exactly where but there r a few sections where ppl posted how they did their carpetting ....... |
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Gold Member Username: Dustin3Tigard, OR U.S. Post Number: 3589 Registered: Oct-05 | which wayh do you like brandon? on bcae1.com i think they show 3 |