Today was rather simple and straightforward, getting the window frame "covering" set up on the passenger side door on the car. Unlike the driver's door, which has a Sheetmetal panel, this door is just going to have a chicken wire fencing covering over the window opening to serve as an opening to the outside without allowing the birds to be able to escape or something else to come inside. Like with the driver's side I had to start with the window frame. This was done again with conduit pipe, two pieces, one for the back side, and one with an obtuse angle to match the contour of the window opening. These were welded in place to get the initial window frame set up. The next thing I did was cut and weld a piece of pipe to weld along the top of the door, at the bottom of the window frame. This piece of pipe was especially necessary since the top of the door is bent in from the tree that fell on it. The pipe will give the window frame that straight bottom portion to help support and hold the chicken wire that will be used. I had to look around for a suitable piece of chicken wire fencing to use. The piece didn't have to be big but I did need to be able to cut enough to be able to fold the edges around the pipe window frame and weld tack points along the bottom on the door. I ended up finding a piece of chicken wire that was attached to a couple of trees from a past project in this section of the yard. I ended up being able to cut a good piece from this. From here I trimmed the piece to fit the window frame and give me a few inches extension at the bottom. I also allowed for some overlapping along the top and back sides of the window frame with the intent on having the chicken wire stems that remained after I trimmed the piece. I was able to bend these little stems around the pipe to secure the fence piece around the actual window frame. From here I carefully tacked points on the fence where the wires crossed in order to optimize the amount of surface area to take the fire from the welder. Of course I burned through the wire on several occasions but was able to salvage things and get the spots secured to the door.
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