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.
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