Date:         Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:01:13 -0800
Reply-To:     Loren Busch <starwagen@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Loren Busch <starwagen@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: [WetWesties] Westy canvas attachment
Comments: To: Jim Arnott <jrasite@eoni.com>
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And to whom it may concern, GET THE SCREWS too.  They are a strange size and
apparently impossible to find new.

On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Jim Arnott <jrasite@eoni.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> As some of you know, I rolled my '82 Westy last June.  It is back
> together except for one detail.  Being on its roof made it necessary
> to replace the poptop.  The original top had staples attaching the
> canvas to the top. The replacement top is from a much later Westy.
> '89 or so IIRC.  The later top uses aluminum strips similar to the
> ones that attach the canvas to the body.  The top I have doesn't have
> those strips.
>
> I say similar because a few months ago one of our listmembers kindly
> sent me what he believed were the top strips.  They're not. They're
> the canvas to body pieces. The correct strips are flat whereas the
> body attachment strips have joggles in them to go over the
> reinforcing ribs in the roof sheet metal.
>
> So... if you're wandering around the boneyard and you spot them, I
> could sure use them. The aluminum strips that fasten the canvas to
> the plastic poptop. They're held on with about half a zillion small
> Phillips screws.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jim
>
>

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