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Re: "lift the dot" fasteners....

To: Andrew Mace <amace@unix2.nysed.gov>
Subject: Re: "lift the dot" fasteners....
From: Joe Curry <spitlist@gte.net>
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 1999 07:32:23 -0700
Cc: Cliff Pike <cpike@cpass.net>, Scions of Stanpart <triumphs@autox.team.net>
References: <Pine.WNT.3.95.990809095813.-446757A-100000@win2431.nysed.gov>


Andrew Mace wrote:

> I did know what you meant Cliff; last year I helped a friend install a new
> Robbins tonneau on a TR250. We used the Lift-the-Dot fasteners, and I'm
> sorry we did. I find them rather more difficult to work when you have to
> reach "up under" the windshield frame like that. It's not so bad on older
> "sidescreen" TRs, MG-TDs, etc.

Andy, 
"That's the point".  Being harder to get off, they don't come off by
themselves like the metal grommets do.   
> 
> But the "eyelets" are a bit easier to put onto the posts, and a LOT easier
> to remove, IMO.

To make them easier to get off all you have to do is follow
instructions.  i.e. "Lift-the-Dot"  8^)

Joe
 
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