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To: "aMORGANS@autox.team.net" <Morgans@Autox.Team.Net>
Subject: Fw: Wet Protection Measures
From: "Vern Dale-Johnson" <vern_dj@email.msn.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 00:20:46 -0500
-----Original Message-----
From: Vern Dale-Johnson <vern_dj@email.msn.com>
To: Bob Nogueira <nogera@prodigy.net>; Blair John <jblair@exis.net>;
aMORGANS@autox.team.net <Morgans@Autox.Team.Net>
Date: January 11, 1998 12:16 AM
Subject: Re: Wet Protection Measures


>There is another solution to side screens popping out.  Yes, a tommy bar is
>important but the big trucks still suck the windscreens out.  If you've
used
>the proper Morgan wind wings (from Cantab, Old World, or Rutter), these go
>outside the screens and help keep the fronts in.  Don't forget to properly
>fit your front screens -- they should be deflected inward slightly about 4
>inches from the leading edge to fit snugly inside the no drafts.
>
>On my 4 seater I've used some DOT "T" type fasteners with the male section
>attached to the top leading edge of the rear screen and the female plate
>just inside the flap on the hood.  This holds to entire hood in place when
>travelling with all screens on and is even better when travelling with just
>the rear screens in place ( great sun protection if you have a zip out rear
>window panel).  You could use the same type fastener on the top leading
edge
>of the front screen but, as noted with string, you have to remember to undo
>same before you crank open the door!  I've not found this necessary with
>proper fitting front screens and wind-wings.
>
>Vern Dale-Johnson
>MSCC Canada
>+4 SN 6252
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Bob Nogueira <nogera@prodigy.net>
>To: Blair John <jblair@exis.net>; aMORGANS@autox.team.net
><Morgans@Autox.Team.Net>
>Date: January 10, 1998 7:19 PM
>Subject: Re: Wet Protection Measures
>
>
>>-- [ From: Bob Nogueira * EMC.Ver #3.1a ] --
>>
>>Do you use a '' Tommy Bar' to tighten the side screens to the door?
>>I've found that if the screens are on tight  ( and the door hinges are
>tight
>>) that 70 MPH presents no problem unless I'm headed into a head wind ( in
>>wHich case I simply go in the opposite direction :) .
>>
>>Bob Nogueira
>>
>>
>>-------- REPLY, Original message follows --------
>>
>>> Date: Thursday, 08-Jan-98 05:00 PM
>>>
>>> From: Blair John               \ Internet:    (jblair@exis.net)
>>> To:   MORGANS                  \ Internet:    (morgans@autox.team.net)
>>>
>>> Subject: Re: Wet Protection Measures
>>>
>>> >>Arlo Levisen wrote
>>> >>
>>> >>>Since I kept the car pretty much at a steady 90 mph, the wind
>>> >>>tended to force the rain water up over the windshield and under the
>>hood
>>> >>>and then down the inside of the windshield.
>>> >
>>> >A trick I've used (at speeds up to 75 mph - untested above that) is to
>>> >place a terrycloth (or felt) strip between the windscreen frame and the
>>> >top along the lift-a-dots.  When the cloth thickens with the moisture,
>>> >it tends to prevent more water from being blown in....
>>>
>>> Great idea!
>>>
>>> Along the same lines, what do you guys and galls do to keep you side
>>curtains
>>> from flopping out?
>>>
>>> While I almost never have my top up and side curtains in, I must admitt
>>that I
>>> have.  What I've been doing for years is simply tying a piece  of string
>>around
>>> the top of the window frame.  Then taking the loose  end and tying it
>>around
>>> the lift-a-dots on top of the dash board.  This helps quite a bit.  But
>>you
>>> have to remember to unhook the string from the dash before you try to
get
>>out.
>>>  Something I almost always forget to do!
>>>
>>> John
>>>
>>>
>>> John T. Blair  WA4OHZ          email:  jblair@exis.net
>>> Va. Beach, Va                  Phone:  (757) 495-8229
>>>
>>>               48 TR1800    65 Morgan 4/4 Series V
>>> 71 Saab Sonnett III     75 Bricklin SV1     77 Spitfire
>>>
>>>
>>
>>-------- REPLY, End of original message --------
>>
>>
>>
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