Also, I think the shrinkage due to time is less than the
shrinkage and expansion due to temperature (which happens far more often).
With the summer sun shining on it, it gets HOT!
It would be a bad idea to install a top on a hot day with the sun shining on it.
Doug
At 06:48 AM 4/27/00 -0500, Tim Wilcox wrote:
>It has been my experience that when a top shrinks, it shrinks in all
>directions, from front to back and from side to side. Therefore, if you
>install the top loosely to allow for shrinkage, you have a period of
>flopping in the breeze and then, when it does shrink to fit front to
>back, it recedes from the windows on the sides and the snaps along the
>front of the corner windows no longer reach to the posts.
>
>I guess this means install it to fit and replace it when it shrinks.
>My 2¢.
>
>Tim Wilcox
>tw1@muw.edu
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