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What I'm hearing is that there is no way for the bow to 'slide' into place on its own? Also neither of you mentioned whether your bow is held by elastic straps or by non-elastic ones. It crossed my mind that if the elastic was screwed to the floating bow such that it was under fairly heavy tension as the top comes up, it might actually slide into place. If it is actually able to do this I believe my acorn nut would work better for being slid on. However, I do appreciate the idea of using rubber pieces.
The top is going to be replaced and right now I'm thinking of getting the Sun-Fast fabric Robbins top and have a local upholstery shop intall it. Any recommendations from either of you two?
Since this shop works primarially on older US cars, I'll have to guide them through some of the eccentricties of these tops. I spend many, many days installing them and they can do it in a day or two. Meaning I can't afford to do it myself. I'd bet that mine would come out better but since the client claims the top will never be up except in the garage, it's really not worth my going the extra mile which I normally do.
Biba
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