----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Fillinger" <n3eu@comcast.net>
Subject: Europa-List: Honey, I Shrank the Perspex!
| Hi, all --|
| I remembered doing a trial fit of each "Perspex" originally after kit
| delivery, and I recall only modest trimming to be needed. Now one
| door's glass has shrunk up to 1/4" in some places. Both are enough to
| require rework of the rebates to provide bonding area. They've also
| shrunk mostly top/bottom, vs. fore/aft, so rework of the rebate can be
| mostly at the top.|
| I checked the windscreen this A.M., after gathering nerve to do so,
| and it has shrunk too, with probable fiberglass rework, even without
| smoothing out some unsteady or (non-sober?) cutting by whichever
| factory cut it . I bought the kit all at once, and there were sticker
| dates on some items in the fuse kit as old as 96-97. So this acrylic
| plastic may have seen quite a few birthdays to date, even if newer.|
| Has anyone encountered this? Maybe someone with a many-year old
| Europa may have observed a once nice fit of the door is now no longer
| a pretty fit? Reg, Fred F.
Yeah, Mebbe, Fred,
Am about to start shaving them to fit. What do you suggest I do?
Should I allow exact fit and hope they don't buckle 'til they shrink? MIne
were issued in 1979 - praps they've already done that?
Cheers, Ferg
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