How do you buggy guys attach yer body panels?

[TheBeast_88K5]

Thinking up some tube barn-door craziness, for the beast....

How do you guys attach the skins to tube?

Thanks in advance.

 

[NorCal_Chris]

Trick tabs and button head allens.

or if your a baller Dzus fasteners

 

[cybrfire]

Nut serts.

 

[TheBeast_88K5]

Ah... Gracias.

 

[Zeus33rd]

The Zeus fasteners are BADASS. We used those on the Lucas oil koh car. Stupid simple to use and beyond strong enough. Worth the cost.

 

[big dan]

I used self drilling sheet metal screws to attach the skins to the tube on my truck

But I don't consider it a buggy. Buggies generally have good fab work, mine is more like redneck junkyard hack work. Dzus fasteners would look severely out of place, sheet metal screws are a little more applicable to my work

 

[TheBeast_88K5]

Those Zeus fasteners are pimp...

 

[blazinzuk]

I do what Dan does, I build brackets to hide the fastners for the most part and then use sheetmetal screws,

The only time my panels come off is when I replace them so dzus fasteners aren't really needed

 

[Jester1]

The Dzus fasteners are awsome. We us them on the stearman fusalage sheet metal. Plane can do like 120-130 and is rated for aerobatics and they work great. Last place you want something to fail.

 

[wasted wages]

I used these welded to the cage..... installed a nutsert and then used 1/4-20 button head stainless allen socket screws.....

http://www.aa-mfg.com/pdshop/shop/item.aspx?itemid=278



A&A has tons of fab brackets and tabs....http://www.aa-mfg.com/pdshop/shop/

 

[ryoken]

Kert's panel mount tabs with 3/8 nuts welded to em with countersunk ss allens...

 

[TheBeast_88K5]

I like the welded nut/tab idea....super cheap.