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Reply to "Time to put the Hard Top On"

Altering that top was a labor intensive,  spent half a day making enough carboard templates to build a kid's play house. Finally figured out where to cut across the top L to R at the right place on the radius. That was the most difficult part of the fitment. The top needed to be extended 2 1/2" inches so I made up some sheet metal temp plates ,screwed them in place from the top down only to find that doing so changed the radius arch. The second attempt was using heavy cardboard against the underside glassing that in place with a wide area of glass outside the carboard margins.  As that began to set up, I put back a couple of the upper sheet metal plates  by screws adjusting the screw tension found the correct radius then let that set up overnight. Cut out the cardboard template applied glass cloth and resin to the underside, let that set up then removed the sheet metal plates and screws glass cloth and resin that area. Lastly sand and fill a few times, shot some sealer, primer base and clear coat, NO matter what I did I couldn't get the back plexi glass to seat into the rubber plexi glass to hard top lip, so I had a friend from a local glass shop drop by.....boom, done in ten minutes with the right tools.  The top came out nice but I don't think I would do another though.

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