Door skins, part 2

Good news! The shop is back to Sunday hours. That means I will be working on Sundays and can stay longer. Of course, the 8th is Easter, but after that the schedule should smooth out.


I began where I left off, peeling back the door skin. Originally I used a standard pliers, but I discovered that medium sized slip joint pliers provide better leverage.



Found two places where the door skin was brazed to the frame. Both are near the top, between where the edge wraps around and where it is spot welded to the window opening. One at the front, on at the rear.


Rather than grind away all the spot welds along the top edge I decided to cut through the skin with a cutting wheel.


Even then the skin would not come free. Problem was the door handle mechanism. Hard to see, but it appeared to be attached to the door skin. Removed some the the mechanism, but ended up cutting around it.



After the door skin was off I decided to split the piece over the door handle to see what was underneath. Still not sure how the doubler is attached, appears that one end is attached to the frame and the other end to the door skin. Looks like I will need to remove from old skin and attach to new skin.