Hi Brian, My Pop top screen is also starting to rip. What can be done is to apply some regular screen fixer material from the hardware store if the rips are small enough. Another solution if the rips are huge is to replace the entire zippered screen. I was going to do this process but in order to do that you kind of have to remove the canvas to get the sewing machine on the one edge. I went to a RV store to ask them if they could resew a new screen and they said it would be about $300 to get the canvas off, repair the screen and back on. So by the time one would go through all that trouble, one could purchase a replacement canvas as well. There are several vendors on the list (www.gowesty.com and www.busdepot.com) that sell new replacement canvas with one or three windows for about $250. I have done the tiny hole patching with the regular fixit screen tape but the next big rips and I will replace the entire canvas and add the 3 window screens providing lateral ventilation from the additional side windows..... my solution. Joel 89 Syncro Westy Rochester, NY. --- Brian Wawzonek <b_waz@HOTMAIL.COM> wrote: <HR> <html><P>Has anyone tried to repair their upper bug screen in the poptop? Mine has a few sideways small tears, and I was wondering if you could glue it closed? I think sewing it closed wouldn't last, yet maybe a patch glued on behind it might hold. Any thoughts to type of glue, or if you can actually replace the whole thing easily? thanks</P> <P>Brian Waz</P> <P>85 Westy GL</P><br clear=all><hr>Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at <a href="http://www.hotmail.com">http://www.hotmail.com</a>.<br></p></html>
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