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PostPosted: Tue Jun 30, 2015 7:00 pm    Post subject: '56 Ragtop Question Reply with quote

... see number 44. when the canvas top is stretched over it, what holds the canvas on to this piece?

When the roof is slid back, the canvas can separate off this metal... I know something must hold the canvas on. Like a clip, screw or pop rivet AND whichever little part... how is it applied?

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PostPosted: Tue Jun 30, 2015 7:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

From the VW factory, the cloth top would have been fastened to the header bow via flush mounted rivets. Most cars today use adhesive/glue to attach them together
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 30, 2015 7:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

IIRC the original was installed using a split rivet and that was what the replacement covers use to come with. I used pop rivets to hold mine on (1960) and some people just use a glue like contact cement
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 30, 2015 8:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

60ragtop wrote:
IIRC the original was installed using a split rivet and that was what the replacement covers use to come with. I used pop rivets to hold mine on (1960) and some people just use a glue like contact cement


Do you apply the rivet from the top, through the canvas cover or from the bottom, through the canvas? I guess glue and pop rivets would do.
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 30, 2015 8:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

from the inside where the material folds over. I have a canvas top -been on there since 1997 Smile
once riveted, I used tape along the whole length along the topside to further cover the rivets so they don't show thru. I have to think real hard as it's been so long I did it. Wink I don't know how the rivets would work on a vinyl cover tho?
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 01, 2015 11:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

60ragtop wrote:
I don't know how the rivets would work on a vinyl cover tho?


It works the same way . . . the rivets had a special head design to sit flush in the countersunk holes.
The rivets on mine had push-nuts just like these . . . http://www.mcmaster.com/#90528a127/=xvfsis
You will have better access to the ends of the rivets if you are able to first remove those two special screws (#49 in the illustration) that attach the bow to the rest of the mechanism.
There is also a sponge-rubber strip that is adhered to the bottom of the bow before the cover is attached to the bow.
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 05, 2015 6:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

57BLITZ wrote:
60ragtop wrote:
I don't know how the rivets would work on a vinyl cover tho?


It works the same way . . . the rivets had a special head design to sit flush in the countersunk holes.
The rivets on mine had push-nuts just like these . . . http://www.mcmaster.com/#90528a127/=xvfsis
You will have better access to the ends of the rivets if you are able to first remove those two special screws (#49 in the illustration) that attach the bow to the rest of the mechanism.
There is also a sponge-rubber strip that is adhered to the bottom of the bow before the cover is attached to the bow.



I did exactly what 57BLITZ did.... and it worked very well.....
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