Re: Canvas Top Question

["Paul F" <paulfromsf@domain.elided>]

Thanks for all of the helpful responses ... my buddy got his top up using an 
innovative application of elbow grease ...


> Paul,
> Well, I got the top up -- quite simply after all -- I just about >strained 
> something (on me, not the car!) trying to latch it using >normal hand force 
> -- but last night I took a belt, put it around the >top frame up toward the 
> latch, put my foot in the belt loop to push >down, and it latched as easy 
> as anything! So now that it's up it >probably needs a good hot day stretch 
> and we may be
> OK. (keeping a belt handy!)
> Tks for the help!
> D


> From: Scott Fisher <sfisher71@domain.elided>
> To: Paul F <paulfromsf@domain.elided>, alfa-digest@domain.elided
> Subject: Re: Canvas Top Question
> Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 09:03:24 -0700 (PDT)
>
> Paul,
>
> Hot towels.  Put the top up as far as you can get it,
> then soak a couple of big bath towels in very hot
> water.  Plop them on the top.  The heat will relax the
> top fibers and make it easier to stretch.
>
> You may, of course, want to put some DRY towels down
> on the seats first. :-)
>
> --Scott Fisher
>   Tualatin, Oregon
>
> --- Paul F <paulfromsf@domain.elided> wrote:
> > How would one go about streching out a canvas top?
> > The top in question is on
> > a friends Spider that has been sitting in a garage
> > for a couple of years
> > with the top down (I know, I know, it should have
> > been stored with the top
> > up). It is now impossible to get the top to latch
> > shut because the canvas
> > top has shrunk since the last time the top was up.
> > Any suggestions would be
> > helpful.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Paul
> > '84 Spider Veloce
> >
> >
> >
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- Paul


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