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Re: Europa-List: Bubble doors

Subject: Re: Europa-List: Bubble doors
From: Graham Singleton <grahamsingleton@btinternet.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 11:05:58

craig bastin wrote:
> If you are totally commited to getting the extra head room with the 
> bubble door "glass"
> you might try taking the doors off and gradually and carefully heating 
> the offending area with the door upside
> down and allow it to sag under its own weight. then let it cool and 
> replace the doors 
> Of course this approach would only give you an extra 20 to 30mm. This 
> way if you are happy with the
> result it has cost you very little, and if you wreck the "glass" then 
> you can still go ahead and replace it
> as you first intended.
>  
> craig
You will wreck the Plexi if you do that. It reverts to it's "memory 
state" when heated above 130C, ie flat but bent. It will shrink
Graham



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