[Tigers] Re-stringing the canvas web on the top frame

[Gary]

Jim B.,
Yes, I remember now.  Not coated in the back,
photo looks just like mine when I restored 
it in 1992.
Gary


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> On Jun 15, 2021, at 5:35 PM, Jim B via Tigers <tigers at autox.team.net> wrote:
> 
> Jim,
> 
> Here are 2 pics from an old MKI top I have with the three “stringers” Just to reference the metal holding the strips on. They look to me to be tan color with gray rubberized coating which is almost gone now. As a matter of fact, it almost looks like the coating on the straps wasn’t on the entire strap (?) The sort of half pipe piece is in the center bow and the flat one at the back. A far as I can tell, the strip was half-wrapped around the rear bow.
> 
> Jim B.
> 
> <soft top 1.jpg>
> <soft top 2.jpg>
> 
> 
>> On Jun 15, 2021, at 3:26 PM, Gary <garywinblad at comcast.net> wrote:
>> 
>> The original material was rubberized,
>> grey in my mk1.  I found the exact material 
>> except in tan.  Do not do what I did.  It
>> became just like the hardened cracked
>> original junk within a couple seasons.
>> The better modern replacement is seat belt 
>> material.
>> Gary
>> 
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>>> On Jun 15, 2021, at 3:13 PM, James Armstrong via Tigers <tigers at autox.team.net> wrote:
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Hello all,
>>> 
>>>  
>>> Some 6 or more years ago, I went on a mission to find exact replacement cotton webbing to re-string (?)
>>> my convertible top frame. A note here; earlier Alpines and I suspect Tiger Mk 1s had three rows of this material going from the front windshield header to the center bow to the rear bow. My Mk 1A. has only a center strip of this material. I saved the steel pieces which the cotton is wrapped around, buy didn't take any pictures of the 
>>> "Dress" of the cotton webbing. 
>>>     Does anyone know where there are pictures of the "dress"?  Its kind of over, under, around and through.
>>>  
>>> Comments please?
>>>  
>>> Best regards to all,
>>>  
>>> Jim Armstrong
>>> Mk 1A
>>> 382002083 LRXFE
>>> Code 86
>>> TAC # 0763
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