In article <sbc42635.028@GWIA>, Nolan Penney <npenney@mde.state.md.us>
writes
>I believe you may have misapplied that tension.
You are probably right, but I'm going to need a more detailed
explanation. <g>
> The tension is to the fabric of the top,
>not the frame. The frame can pull the top fabric tight while still
>aligning with the windscreen.
I just don't understand this. When you fit the soft-top to its frame,
you are told to get it good and tight. I have got mine good and tight.
:-) What this means is that the catches on the front of the frame fall
naturally a few millimetres back from the centre of the holes on the top
of the Windscreen surround. In order to get the catches aligned with
the holes, the whole sort-top has to be given a bit of a tug forwards.
In consequence, once the soft-top is fitted, it must be tugging back on
the windscreen frame, mustn't it? And without this bit of tension, the
fabric of the soft-top would be loose and floppy, wouldn't it?
As you can tell, I don't understand how you can get tension in the
fabric without that tension having an effect on the windscreen frame.
ATB
--
Mike
Michael Hargreave Mawson, author of "Eyewitness in the Crimea"
http://www.greenhillbooks.com/booksheets/eyewitness_in_the_crimea.html
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