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Felt up-and I love it! 9 years 8 months ago #147403

Car dealers simply spray them with matt black paint!


I'm thinking I can only 'clean' or cover the inside of my red hood in case the colour leaks through to the outside?

Spraying matt black paint should be OK but if you apply black renovo to the inside it WILL leach through and your hood WILL appear to have black stitching!

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Re:Re: Felt up-and I love it! 9 years 8 months ago #147407

I just find that I get a few wrinkles where the webbing moves independently from the roof material. Not a biggie, but the felt would probably stay smoother if it were under the webbing.:shrug:

edit:- Just re-read what you actually asked. The material has to go over the bars of the frame, but can go over or under the webbing.
Hope that makes sense.

Could you not cut the material to go up to the bars and leave them uncovered? So it kind of tucks under the edge of the bars?

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Re:Re: Felt up-and I love it! 9 years 8 months ago #147413

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The bars are already covered with a similar material that is part of the hood. Basically it's what attaches the hood fabric to the frame bars. So you can't really tuck under, I just used the bars as a useful place for the joins(overlaps) in the felt, but I suppose you could butt up the felt to the bars. In my case it didn't make much difference as the material already around the bars is a pretty good match for the black felt.

It's the belt type webbing between the bars that allows you the choice of over and under.

You can see the existing fabric covers on the bars here:-

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Re:Re: Felt up-and I love it! 9 years 8 months ago #147452

Taken in all the advice, preferences and comments B) hour to spare this aft. after night shift then shopping, had a good look at the innerside of the hood and made a start..... :yesnod: ignore first bit of grey felting and looked like this:-

decided to cover frame crossbars and the webbing lengths as separate items and so this is stage 1 done:-

as 'she who must be obeyed and Tommy the Cooper' allow :drive: :drive: will complete major panels and post results.
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Re:Re: Felt up-and I love it! 9 years 8 months ago #147494

Grabbed an hour to myself this afternoon and recovered the major panels as shown:-

Now got to decide on the front lip of hood, tending towards recover as rest and maybe spray up the hood catches in silvery grey ? Later gonna tackle the fiddley recover around the rear window :-? :-?
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Re:Re: Felt up-and I love it! 9 years 8 months ago #147496

Looks very nice :broon:
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Felt up-and I love it! 9 years 8 months ago #147503

Yeah that's great :broon: :broon:
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Felt up-and I love it! 9 years 8 months ago #147506

It reminds me of the feeling of roominess that comes with a hardtop roof fitted. Only with all the benefits of a roof that folds down. Good shout. :broon:

I'm surprised that it's not been done sooner. Or, has it?

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Felt up-and I love it! 9 years 8 months ago #147509

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good job! As the yanks would say... ;)
Looks great. :yesnod:
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Re:Felt up-and I love it! 9 years 8 months ago #147513

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Some great results. This thread needs to be put in to the How To A to Z index.

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Felt up-and I love it! 9 years 8 months ago #147540

How would that adhesive felt go on the hardtop lining?? :-? :-?
It would not be wide enough but if you got the seams straight would it be ok ?? :-? :-?
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I don't know what the surface of the hardtop lining is made of. The felt needs a good surface to adhere to. it seems to stick to the under fabric of the hood well, but I don't think it would work too well on anything with a pile on it.
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