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Is there an adhesive that will adhere a fiberglass door skin to a steel door frame?

they make fiberglas door skins??
might try the panel adhesive body shops use, and there's a special resin for adhereing to steel, but why not just use a metal skin? seems it's be easier and likely to last longer

Bill

Since a metal door skin is rolled over the door frame at the edge & then welded I don't understand how a glass skin would work without being more trouble than it's worth. It would have to be fastened to the face of the door which could create clearance problems and make the skin proud of the cab. If you're determined to go that route you can probably get some adhesive from a local body shop.

Look to auto paint stores, they have products to repair glass bodies on corvettes or go to a corvette supply.
Presently I do not know of an adhesive to glue glass to steel.
In all the vettes I ever worked on, excluding C5 & C6 vettes, steel was fastened to glass with rivets and adhesive. If the adhesive would have held by itself I don't think they would have used the rivets. The other way it was done was to rivet a glass strip to the steel and then it could now be just glued together which is nothing more than glass to glass.
All this doesn't say that there is not a product out there today. I have not had the need so I never looked.
Dan

windshield sealer will work comes in a big tube black rubber

I would just use fiberglass resin

there is a Epoxy adhesive out now....Pricy though...

Do not use resin, resin alone is NOT an adhesive, and in fact doesn't stick very well at all. There are panel bonding adhesives that are designed for fiberglass to metal as well as metal to metal or fiberglass to fiberglass. Of course, "fiberglass" is a laymans term, most of the time these days it is the higher tech SMC (Sheet Moulded Compound) which is a "stamped fiberglass" type product. But even the C5 and C6 Vettes have the inner fenders in front bonded straight to the aluminum frames with no rivits.

And I seem to remember some GM car with SMC skins bonded to a metal shell.....can't remember which one.

Anyway, yeah it will work, but as mentioned before, the glass is thicker than the original sheetmetal skin. How can this work? Picture your door skin being an eigth inch thick, how could you adjust the door in enough to make it flush with the outer body? I am not sure you could do that.


Brian

I used a product called Lord Fusor bonding agent,For Metal. I just checked there web site and they have a product that can be used for bonding metal to fiberglass,It's called SMC Repair Adhesive. I used there bonding adhesive to bond My rocker panels on and patch panels on My fenders. It's really good stuff.Go to a good body shop or a good auto parts store to find it.You wont find it at auto chain stores like autozone or vip.