Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2020 18:21:59 -0700
Reply-To: Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA>
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From: Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA>
Subject: Re: Question about pop top removal--rear hinges
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Good friend Simon, with the hi top 91 Syncro , was a fan of that stuff. Anyway, good that the flocking is ok. It is a job to reline the top with hull liner or carpet stuff or whatever.
You’ll love the cleaning when the top is on supports and upside down. Makes the chore of getting top off almost worth it :-)
New tent jim? I have some tips for the screws at the rear. I’ll hold that valuable advice till I get a high bid.
Alistair
> On Sep 6, 2020, at 6:17 PM, Jim. Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com> wrote:
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>
> Thanks for the advice. Pretty much my line of thinking.
>
> About the underside: Mine is in great shape, flocking wise, but it still has 37 year old mold that came from germany. Not really bad, but everywhere. Somewhere recently on the list, a product called Concrobium was mentioned to get rid of mold. I ordered some and tried it. Meh. Then I read the instructions on the bottle. It said the mold inhibitor had to get all the way through fibers if dealing with them. So I resprayed and worked it in a little with a brush. WOW! Mold gone, stains very very light. It's so much better to deal with than clorox because it doesn't hurt anything else in the car, or your eyes or lungs. I did the skylight area and surrounding fuzz to prove that it worked satisfactorily. I will wait until the top is on sawhorses upside down before I try to finish the job, since it is coming off anyway.
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> Jim
>
>> On Sun, Sep 6, 2020 at 8:09 PM Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
>> Jim,
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>> I’m trying to remember the few times I’ve done this . Maybe the pain of it makes it hard to recall.
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>> I think I loosened all of the hinge to steel roof bolts first. Then raised roof to remove top of h bar to pop top bolts and folded the h bar and secured with many cable ties and or twine. Supported the roof on a milk crate on top bunk. Then back to the loosened bolts and removed. The pop top sort of balanced on the milk crate. Takes a couple of folk to remove the top from Van .
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>> I’m not even mentioning the tent. But now I will.
>> If replacing it, just cut It free.
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>> I’m assuming you’re taking the roof off. Great time to paint it, and flip upside down and clean the fuzz. Or maybe you’re going to “carpet” the roof. If so, I found that the citrus based paint stripper does a good job of removing remaining flocking.
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>> Alistair
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>> > On Sep 6, 2020, at 2:11 PM, Jim. Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > I'm close to replacing my Westy canvas, but I have one remaining
>> > headscratcher. When I come to the rear hinges, do I:
>> >
>> > 1. Disconnect the rar hinges before disconnecting the raiser bar in the
>> > front and
>> >
>> > 2. Do I disconnect the hinges from the body, or the poptop from the hinges?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Jim
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