Rich & Lori Williams wrote:
> 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
I was planning to do the same thing but someone told me that If you
drill out the rivets on the tropical roof sun sheet you will have to
remove the bits that fall inside the channels..only way to do that would
be to cut holes in the end of the channels on top near the rear door.
you would then have to have these holes filled /re welded somehow
I th9nk you would be better off to clean the goop of the top leaving
the sunsheet intact..spot sand/prime with etch primer and then shoot the
paint under the sunsheet and don't worry about it...
thats what I did and the results were great
Rgds
Steve Bradke '68 lla
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