morcus
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| posted on 7/12/12 at 03:36 PM |
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Making my hood more waterproof.
Since it really pissed it down a couple of weeks ago my roof had had quite alot of water on the inside and it never stops raining enough for me to get
it dry. Is there something I can use to give it some extra water proofing? I've got some stuff for doing seude shoes in the cupboard, will that
work?
In a White Room, With Black Curtains, By the Station.
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loggyboy
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| posted on 7/12/12 at 03:41 PM |
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How can you make something 'more' waterproof?!? lol
Mistral Motorsport
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morcus
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| posted on 7/12/12 at 03:45 PM |
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As in, I want less water to come through it. If you want to be pedantic about it, more resistent to water so that I get less wet going over speed
bumps.
In a White Room, With Black Curtains, By the Station.
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Peteff
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| posted on 7/12/12 at 03:47 PM |
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Get something like Nikwax spray on tent sealer or similar if it's a fabric hood.
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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whitestu
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| posted on 7/12/12 at 03:51 PM |
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quote:
Get something like Nikwax spray on tent sealer or similar if it's a fabric hood.
I used something similar to this on mine. It seems to make it pretty water resistant.
Stu
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morcus
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| posted on 7/12/12 at 04:05 PM |
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Thanks, theres a camping shop by the chippy so I'll have a look in a moment when I go for my dinner.
In a White Room, With Black Curtains, By the Station.
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Ivan
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| posted on 7/12/12 at 04:11 PM |
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If the roof has hollows where water can pool, one of the first things to do is to but in tensioned battens to get rid of the hollows.
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morcus
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| posted on 7/12/12 at 04:19 PM |
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The tension seems pretty good and theres never water pooled on top, it's just when after it rained hard and solidly for a few days the other
week it was like the inside of a tent with loads of drops of water hanging from the roof and it's usually raining, doesn't help that it
gets almost no sun due to the way the street runs.
In a White Room, With Black Curtains, By the Station.
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kendo
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| posted on 7/12/12 at 04:55 PM |
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You might also want to get some seam sealer, again as used on tents and run it along all the joins to stop the water seeping in.
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mcerd1
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| posted on 7/12/12 at 05:04 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by kendo
You might also want to get some seam sealer, again as used on tents and run it along all the joins to stop the water seeping in.
and put it anywhere its in direct contact with the support frame too
this is the stuff you'd use for a tent (so I assume its good for softtops too)
you can get it in most decent outdoor shops:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdfpA7e9Zgc
just make sure and get the right version of the stuff, there is another version for silicon fabrics...
[Edited on 7/12/2012 by mcerd1]
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PAUL FISHER
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| posted on 7/12/12 at 05:28 PM |
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Ive used this stuff before on my TVR and my SRT6 soft tops, cleaner and re proofer
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Autoglym-500ml-Fabric-Maintenance-Pieces/dp/B005WIF4NI
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morcus
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| posted on 7/12/12 at 06:00 PM |
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Thanks, the guy at the camping shop reckomended me some tent stuff he reckoned work, but the auto Glym stuff looks to be about the same money So
I'll go into town tomorrow as the tent stuff was just to water proof and not clean.
In a White Room, With Black Curtains, By the Station.
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