LRO: Tropical Roof Question

From: Rich & Lori Williams (paddlers@nwlink.com)
Date: Thu May 17 2001 - 23:52:33 EDT

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    A day and a half of solid progress got most of the body disassembled and a huge pile of parts cleaned, stripped, primed, and in some cases even painted. I even managed to get the top off of the old beast after several struggles with nuts that have been nicely corroding over the last 41 years (thanks for the help dad).

    Anyway, my question is related to painting the tropical roof. Those of you who have done this, what's the best way to go about things here. Upon a brief inspection it appears that all the rivets must be drilled out in order to remove the sun shield from the main roof. Is this really the case or is there something else that I am missing? Okay - don't answer that. A P.O. had the great wisdom of painting the entire sun shield with a heavy coat of a substance that looks like what is used to paint the tops of RV's. Kind of textured and thick. So I want to strip this whole thing down and respray with the original white/ivory/limestone/whatever but wanted to ask before I set out to take the sun shield off.

    TIA

    Rich
    '60 SII 109SW



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