Tom,
This is down to the very detail what I did to tie the two main trim pieces
together on my hardtop. Well, actually, I carefully drilled the four holes
"in situ" (the trim already installed) using a small electric hand drill.
The stainless wire I used was, I believe, from a roll of stainless MIG
welding wire - about 10-15 mil I would guess.
TTFN,
Bob
At 06:48 PM 11/27/99 -0800, Tom Hall wrote:
>I've found it very handy to drill a pair of holes on the lower step of the
>top and bottom of the side trim pieces before installation. When in place,
>you can lace a thin strand of stainless wire through the opposing holes to
>tie and pull the two halves together. The trick is to twist the wire ends
>together and bend the resulting curl flat against the rubber. The center
>clip is then only required to cover this tie. It requires a lot of
>"fitting" with long nose pliers to get the center pieces to lay flat, but
>they are no longer being pushed out by the ends of the larger side trim
>pieces.
>
>Tom
Robert L. Palmer
UCSD, Dept. of AMES
619-822-1037 (o)
760-599-9927 (h)
rpalmer@ucsd.edu
rpalmer@cts.com
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