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Dan:
Try and get ahold of a copy of A-Antics Tech Tips put out by the Michigan
Capter of NAMGAR. The manual provides lots of pictures and some
reasonable instructions on installing a tonneau (pp. 223-225). The
instructions are as follows:
1) Test fit the cover and mark the center.
2) Use an exacto knife and cut slits for the fastener. (Use care as it is
easy to make a larger cut than needed).
3) Have someone help hold the front while the tonneau is taut over the
cockpit. The "arch punch" is used to punch the fabric over the stud.
Repeat at the front.
4) Push the tangs through the fabric.
5) Center the snap ovetr the hole. Push down to mark the fabric.
6) Use an adjustable plier to bend the tangs over the backing plate.
7) Finish the snaps, working from fron to back, side to sie. Do not
install snaps "all in a row" as the cover will wrinkle.
8) Eyeball the turnbutton eyelet over the turnbutton, pushing the tangs
against the fabric. Slit with knife and install the eyelet as with the
snaps.
9) Cut the fabric.
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The arch punch looks like a tube with an ID slightly larger than the OD of
the studs and sharpened to a bevel.
Hope this helps, Eric
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> >Dan Ray wrote: >> >> Listers:
>> Just got my tonneau cover today -- couldn't pass up the Moss sale!
>> I know this has been covered before, but I didn't save to the "Important
>> Advice" folder, unfortunately...
>> Any advice on installing the "lift-the-dots" or just things to watch out for
>> or handy how-tos before I tackle this sucker? I don't want to do something
>> stupid that will give me less than optimum results!
>> No directions with the top either and I quote: "We recommend our ...tonneau
>> covers...be installed at automotive trim and upholstery shops that posess
>> the tools...blah blah. Gimme a break!
>> So, prospective tonneau installers TAKE HEED to any further advice on this!
>> Don't do like I did and hit the DEL key!
>> TIA
>>
>> Dan
>> '73 B (Witch car)
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>I've been down that road, just yesterday. I firmly believe that Moss is
>opening the Robbins boxes and removing the installation instructions, so
>they "Won't get sued." I bought both a tonneau and top. The instructions
>were in the tonneau box, not in the top box. After I went thru the
>chain of command to the sales mgr, he allowed that they didn't want the
>instructions in there. He claimed that they (Moss) instructed Robbins
>not to include the installation instructions. Grrrrr........
>
> The above admission was only after I spoke with those people at great
>length....
>
>--
> Charley Robinson
> Kerrville, TX, USA
> <ccrobins@ktc.com>
> `69 B Roadster
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