If the screen is wide at the top, then the arms should be gently bent in,
that is, bent towards the door if they were on the car. It is possible to
do this with a completed sidescreen if you have a way to stabilize the frame
of the screen and use, for example, a wide bore pipe on the arms. Don't try
to do it all at once - go step by step. But it is a good lesson to have the
screens fitted before having them covered and ideally before the car is
painted.
Some sidescreens have a strap and a snap. It was never meant to be tight,
but if you have one and move the snap up, that also might bring the top of
the screen in tighter.
Andrew
-----Original Message-----
From: Triumphs [mailto:triumphs-bounces@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of TERRY
SMITH
Sent: Thursday, December 6, 2018 10:00 AM
To: triumphs@autox.team.net
Subject: [TR] TR3 sidescreen frames adjustment
How exactly DO you adjust these? My passenger side screen is wide at the
top by about 2 inches. Unfortunately the sidescreen was finished while I
was in mid restoration, so I don't want to carve into the material to adjust
the sticks. I almost never put the top up anyway, but it would be nice to
have it right. Thoughts?
Terry
> On December 6, 2018 at 8:18 AM Andrew Uprichard <auprichard@uprichard.net>
wrote:
>
>
> Usable frames - $150: usable sticks $100. I have LOTS if anyone is
> interested :-)
>
> Rebuilding sidescreens involves buying windows, channels and approximately
2
> yards of material - then you have to find someone who knows what they are
> doing. Could be $500 or more, but (a) new ones range from $900 - $1200 on
> Moss, and (b) restoring old ones has the advantage of making sure they fit
> before rebuilding. Trying to adjust new or refinished screens on the car
in
> an ordeal.
>
> Andrew Uprichard
> Jackson, Michigan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Triumphs [mailto:triumphs-bounces@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Hoyt
> Duff
> Sent: Thursday, December 6, 2018 2:27 AM
> To: triumphs@autox.team.net
> Subject: [TR] TR3 sidescreen frames, hoodsticks value?
>
> I have a stash of TR3 sidescreen frames, some OEM, some aftermarket,
> that would need to be rebuilt to be usable. A new club member has a
> very nice TR3B that he purchased sans sidescreens and hoodsticks. He's
> local, so no shipping involved.
>
> Ebay values vary widely. $200 to $250 for a pair usable frames (not
> finished sidescreens). $120-$240 for the hoodsticks in good condition.
> Any money received would be plowed back into a TR3 currently
> undergoing restoration, so I don't want to give them away.
>
> Of course, we will wind up negotiating a final value, but what does
> the group think would be a reasonable value for these items?
>
> And so he'll have an idea of what he needs to invest in the completed
> project, what is the current cost to have the sidescreens rebuilt?
>
> --
> Hoyt
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