Clear, floppy, plastic (industrial) door flap/strip thingys?

[Dave-the-Train]

I don't know what they're called apart from "Clear, floppy, plastic (industrial) door flap/strip thingys" but lots of factory doors have them both inside and in entrance exit doors...  They're usually about 9" wide, start off quite clear and add gundge until they fall off or get replaced.

So... I'm not too bothered what they're called... but has anyone tried modelling them?  It strikes me that they would be a good way of hiding what was (not) inside a background factory building...  I don't recall ever seeing them modelled.

Anyone know when the strips first appeared?

Thanks

[tbdanny]

Do you mean the ones that hang vertically like a curtain?  Could probably be modelled with those overhead transparency sheets - just cut most of the way across a piece and glue the solid strip behind the top of the door - spray with dullcote to get the prototype's 'misty' appearance.

[MisterBeasley]

They're called "door sweeps."

And shame on you for not modelling the inside of the buildings.  At least, print out some cinderblock patterns for the back wall, and a wood-plank floor.

[cowman]

My first thought would be to use waxed paper (about the right clarity for a used one), cut a piece as wide as the door and a little longer.  Cut it  vertically except for the very top, which is what you will glue to the inside of the top of the door.

Just a thought.

Good luck, 

[Dave-the-Train]

MisterBeasley

And shame on you for not modelling the inside of the buildings. 

Yes I do mean the vertical strips.   I'll look at both ideas for replicating them.

You've reminded me that we also have horrible side hung doors that can be bashed through by forklifts.  They are usually (lower) half black with a "clear" top.  Usually only on "smaller" doors - and some pedestrian doors (FLTs aren't supposed to go there!).  Places like cold stores tend to have them.  I think that the clear acrylic / OHP sheet will be the better material for those.

Thanks 

Any more ideas?

PS  Just had a wrain bave!    Staples do some slip file things that have a frosted front cover... I'll try those as well...

[TomDiehl]

MisterBeasley

They're called "door sweeps."

And shame on you for not modelling the inside of the buildings.  At least, print out some cinderblock patterns for the back wall, and a wood-plank floor.

Actually, a door sweep is the weatherstrip that goes at the bottom of a door. What he's talking about is simply called a curtain.

[dehusman]

Use mylar drafting film.  Or waxed paper.

 

[Allegheny2-6-6-6]

 McMaster calls them Vinyl door strips, I have to say it's an inventive way to hide the interior of a building as long as you model modern era. I either keep the doors closed or just make a little box the size of the door opening and add some junk to it.

 

 

http://www.mcmaster.com/#door-curtains/=5fr3il

[reklein]

Those things (strips) go back at least till the sixties. I remember em on the doors at the fish cold storage plant in Alaska. BILL

[Dave-the-Train]

Allegheny2-6-6-6

I have to say it's an inventive way to hide the interior of a building as long as you model modern era.

I have to say that, being the modest genius that I am, I'm amazed that I've not thought of it before.  Nor do I recall ever seeing it modelled...

IIRC some reefer trucks use the same stuff to keep the cold in when unloading to stores etc.

I think that one trick will be to have a forklift (or similar) pushing into / out of the flaps/curtains/thingies.

There's usually at least one broken or missing... and I'm pretty sure that they're almost always overlerlapped - so I'll have to figure out how to make two sets each with alternate strips and then line them up right.

[spearo]

They, or at least the ones we have, overlap like a set of verticle blinds for a sliding glass door in a house, not one in front, one in back, one in front, one in back.

///////////   = yes

_-_-_-_-_   = no

 

We have them in a couple of our facilities and they have been there at least since mid 70's

[Dave-the-Train]

Hmmm    All the ones I've seen are   _-_-_-_ pattern (with the sheets/strips of equal width and right up close to each other but we can't easliy print that).  I think that this is to better keep cold (for cold stores) in and weather out.   ///// Would only seem to work as a view block and to denote the boundary... wouldn't even keep flies out like kitchen door strips do unless they were enormous flies...

Next question would be "how to model them'?

Another thought has wandered into the brain cavity... in very hot weather they sometimes get hooked up to one or both sides out of the way to let air in/out.  This also sometimes happens when a place gets very busy and the FLT drivers want a clear run...

So maybe my shame for avoiding building the interior detail could be reduced?