At 7:44 -0800 2/3/05, TeriAnn Wakeman wrote:
>>>PS I've got an Everflex top now in excellent condition, fit, and finish,
>>>but putting it up in cool weather is very difficult requiring a lot of
>>>stretching of the top and swearing on my part...
>
>Any soft top material will become softer and stretch more when it is
>hot than it will when it is cold. Any your delima is shared by just
>about everyone who set the snaps outside during a warm day.
>
>The trick is wait until a day where the temperature is at the point
>where you would normally just be thinking about erecting the hood,
>then set the snap locations. If you set them on a cold day it will
>be a bit loose on those hot days you erect the hood for sun
>protection. If you set them on a hot day the hood will be to tight
>to erect when you need to protect from the cold.
>
>>Ask anyone in Phoenix, we never let cold weather make us put up our
>>tops! ;-)
>
>I didn't think the temperature ever got below 90 degrees in Phoenix
>on those cold days 8*)
What are you talking about, it has dipped down into the frigid 70's
just this week!
John A. Wise, Ph.D., CPE
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Glendale, AZ 85308
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Wise@erau.edu
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