Most fabric stores and/or craft shops also carry snap installation tools. I
like the ones that are like pliers and all you do is punch a hole and insert
the snap top through the hole, put the inside part over the metal post and
using the tool crimp the post onto the back trapping the fabric between the
two pieces.
Joe
----- Original Message -----
From: <zoboherald@aol.com>
To: <s1500@comcast.net>; <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 1:55 PM
Subject: Re: The ragtop is here
> -----Original Message-----
> From: s1500@comcast.net
>
> ...the new Robbins ragtop is here....Any good solid instructions on how
> to
> install the button snaps? I have not the slightest inkling on how to
> install the
> buttons(especially the female ends) , and it looks like you only have 1
> shot at
> it.
>
> ==AM==
> Take a look at
> <http://hometown.aol.com/herald1200/database/tonneau2a.jpg>, which
> shows the approximate dimensions of the "special tool" for doing this.
> As someone else mentioned, such a tool and the "anvil" that goes with
> it are usually readily available in any decent hardware store (along
> with extra snaps, usually of as good quality as those supplied with new
> tops). The tool is so inexpensive that, in my experience, there's no
> reason to improvise with anything else.
>
> --Andy Mace
>
> *Mrs Irrelevant: Oh, is it a jet?
> *Man: Well, no ... It's not so much of a jet, it's more your, er,
> Triumph Herald engine with wings.
> -- Cut-price Airlines Sketch, Monty Python's Flying Circus (22)
>
> Check out the North American Triumph Sports 6 (Vitesse 6) and Triumph
> Herald Database at its new URL: <http://triumph-herald.us>
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