I visited Mikes shop as he was working on the PA12 in Alaska, and he does fantastic work. Looks great. Kydex is the way to go. But you don't need to go to the extreme like Mike does. He has a ton of shop tools he has developed to do the job. He cut off some kydex and let me run it through a roller and I was hooked.
I have a PA12 with only a slightly extended baggage, top shelf only, and right door only. I ordered three sheets of Kydex in grey, and finished a simple interior with a sheet left over still in my kids bedroom where I did all the measuring and cutting. I bought a roller kit from Harbour Freight and it worked great with no modified rollers, but Mike's are wider and do look better. They mostly add rigidity to the sheet and narrow beads work fine. after making and installing the side panels I had enough left from the two sheets to play around and made a formed panel to replace the stock throttle cover on the left side, some holders for my headphone volume inline gizmo things, and new fuel and trim cover plates, as well as a cover for the rear of the baggage area. All simple, fun, easy to do using a propane torch, metal snippers, and your wifes oven at 220 degrees. no mess. Let her help and she will do a better job to please you. Or maybe not.
As an example I used a simple length of 1x6 and two clamps on the dinning room table to make the throttle cover and had it done well before my wife made it home from book club. See? Simple. I still have the patterns for the side panels, for a PA12,
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if anyone would use them then pass them on.
