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• Re: new pop top canvas installed
  Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
  Mon, 1 Aug 2005 17:56:57 -0700
  ...new pop top canvas installed > > "White Man's Burden" got a new pop-top canvas and lived up to its name: > > http://gallery.openfbo...
• Re: Recommendation for Popup Tent. 85 Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - The Bus Depot
  Tue, 2 Apr 2013 13:57:49 -0400
  ...We also have a new Bus Depot brand canvas that I highly recommend. This product was born of my frustration with every aftermarket canvas...
• Re: Mould (mold?) on canvas WATCH OUT!!
  Historical mailing list - Tom Buese
  Tue, 15 Jun 2010 10:17:15 -0600
  ...That is how your > canvas will feel. Feel the burn and tingling sensation! that is what > it is doing to your canvas. > Sorry for...
• Re: Screen Quality in New Pop top Canvas
  Historical mailing list - Marco
  Sat, 30 Nov 2013 12:24:10 -0800
  Hi, In 2008, I replaced the canvas in my 82 Westy with a replacement tent from GoWesty (canvas) and was happy with the results...
• Need pop-top canvas install tips
  Historical mailing list - Robert Keezer
  Sun, 16 May 2010 09:40:57 -0700
  Hi everyone, pop-top canvas replacement for the 84 Westy today. I spent all day yesterday with the new canvas (that affixes with screws...
• Re: poptop canvas installation
  Historical mailing list - Gregory Baskin
  Thu, 9 Nov 2000 10:40:59 -0800
  ...poptop canvas installation > Do you mean the style of top you installed is not what BD sells now? > Ron? Yes, I am using a...
• Re: canvas weather resistance?
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Thu, 18 Aug 2005 09:53:58 -0700
  ...Canvas Top in the Rain Treat it like any canvas tent, don't have anything touching the canvas if you can aviod it. That...
• Re: canvas weather resistance?
  Historical mailing list - bueses
  Thu, 18 Aug 2005 11:49:35 -0600
  > I've had canvas that beaded up with water droplets on the inside but never > dripped onto the interior. With heavy winds the result...
• pop top canvas install, please help
  Historical mailing list - vanagon
  Tue, 16 Mar 2004 13:30:43 -0800
  Hi all, Just received the new canvas from Bus Depot, Very nice indeed, ahhh the smell of new cotton canvas, its like camping when...
• Re: new pop top canvas installed
  Historical mailing list - Matt Barclay
  Mon, 1 Aug 2005 21:41:22 -0700
  I tried propping the pop-top up with a 3 ft 2x4, but the canvas is *extremely* tight. I considered returning it, because it...
• Re: Canvas Replacement-I Regret Ever Buying This Van!!!!!!!!!!!!
  Historical mailing list - J Stewart
  Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:28:42 +0000
  And actually the canvas I was installing is Bus Depot's 3 window canvas. AT NO TIME, however, (at least that I can recall...
• Re: poptop canvas installation
  Historical mailing list - The Bus Depot
  Thu, 9 Nov 2000 11:43:35 -0500
  > Do you mean the style of top you installed is not what BD sells now? > Ron? Yes, I am using a different poptop canvas...
• Re: brush-on canvas waterproofer?
  Historical mailing list - Jack R.
  Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:00:29 -0400
  Our friends had never waterproofed their canvas on their 90 Westy, and while camping a few weeks ago out east, during all the rain...
• Re: 3 Window Westfalia canvas
  Historical mailing list - The Bus Depot
  Thu, 1 Apr 1999 09:05:11 -0500
  ...Anyone replaced perfectly good canvas just to add windows? I sell the Vanagon 3-window canvas in both standard Tan and Gray Sunbrella versions...
• Re: Canvas install question - 3'' too tall?
  Historical mailing list - Jeffrey Vickers
  Sat, 21 Jun 2008 10:26:55 -0700
  I know of two people who bought 3 window canvas in the past two years and both were too tall. I have a new...
• Re: Scotch Guard Canvas?
  Historical mailing list - Bill Davidson
  Tue, 23 May 2000 08:18:58 -0700
  My only hesitation to use Scotch Guard on the canvas is a concern (perhaps unfounded) that the chemicals in the product would shorten the...
• WTB: Canvas for Poptop- in Grey
  Historical mailing list - First Name Last Name
  Tue, 17 Jul 2001 11:50:39 -0700
  Would like to purchase an OEM replacement canvas for a 90 Westy. Must be grey color with no tears in canvas or screen. Warren...
• Re: camper canvas replacement
  Historical mailing list - The Bus Depot
  Thu, 11 Jun 1998 07:27:06 -0100
  > Is it easier to replace the canvas with the top off the bus or back on?? There's no benefit to removing the top...
• Old canvas anyone??
  Historical mailing list - Chuck Baird
  Mon, 2 May 2005 00:01:55 -0400
  Anybody got a piece of old canvas from a Westy top sitting around? I got a couple of small holes in the poptop. I...
• Re: Poptop cleaning & new canvas
  Historical mailing list - Malcolm Stebbins
  Fri, 14 Oct 2005 16:02:55 -0700
  ...Can anyone else p- > mail me how easily their canvas top went on? With the poptop up, it's > really airy at home now...
• Re: pop top canvas swap and ceiling treatment
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Mon, 1 Jul 2013 20:59:40 -0700
  repairing the zippers and netting with canvas installed is possible, just ask my wife :) It is a pain. The sewing that is, not the...
• Oh fudge -- canvas zipper damaged
  Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
  Fri, 20 May 2005 12:21:14 -0700
  ...Or get new canvas, which totally frosts my pumpkin because this canvas is just fine. Maybe there is some kludge that will let me...
• Re: pop top canvas swap and ceiling treatment
  Historical mailing list - Bill Monk
  Mon, 1 Jul 2013 23:54:00 -0400
  > > I think the little strip of fabric wire ducting that North Westy puts in the front drivers side inside corner of the canvas is...
• Re: An idea for Replacing Pop Top Canvas
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Fri, 2 May 2014 08:10:13 -0700
  ...All the new canvases I have installed have been tight. I haven't installed a sunbrella canvas so I can't comment on that...
• An idea for Replacing Pop Top Canvas
  Historical mailing list - Richard Golen
  Fri, 2 May 2014 10:54:02 -0400
  Hi, I've been thinking about how to replace my poptop canvas without having to actually remove the roof. Here's how I see...
• pop top canvas swap and ceiling treatment
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Mon, 1 Jul 2013 20:28:09 -0700
  ...http://shufti.wordpress.com/2013/07/01/vanagon-pop-top-canvas-swap/ I didn't post any of my hard earned (gee, I must...
• Re: Quick Help!!!! 85 Westy camper top canvas holder
  Historical mailing list - Tim Demarest
  Mon, 17 Apr 2006 12:31:05 -0400
  Dana, On my '85, the aluminum strips around the bottom of the canvas are on the inside. I haven't had this van since...
• Re: Bus Depot Canvas Questions
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Wed, 23 Jul 2014 09:32:27 -0700
  ...Bus Depot Canvas Thanks for all the very good (and to the point) responses to my question about the Bus Depot canvas. I just...
• Re: Pop top canvas
  Historical mailing list - Malcolm Stebbins
  Sat, 21 Feb 2004 06:27:27 -0800
  I went with Canvas (3 window from Bus Depot) as the 'sunbrella' (also from Bus Depot) is (reportedly) a stiffer material and (reportedly) does...
• Re: Tent Canvas Question
  Historical mailing list - Tonya Pope
  Mon, 18 Nov 1996 13:23:14 -0800
  ...However, has anyone checked into an awning shop? They make canvas awnings relatively cheap usually. If the guy already has the poles, the canvas...
• Re: 3 Window Westfalia canvas
  Historical mailing list - John Reynolds
  Wed, 31 Mar 1999 21:30:38 EST
  ...This seems like the thing I >need. >Anyone replaced perfectly good canvas just to add windows? =20 >---SNIP--- I would try to find someone...
• Re: An idea for Replacing Pop Top Canvas
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Fri, 2 May 2014 09:46:44 -0700
  ...Unscrew canvas from the top. >> 5. But new canvas in place, screw it down. >> 6. Drop rear of top back down on its hinges...
• Re: An idea for Replacing Pop Top Canvas
  Historical mailing list - J Stewart
  Fri, 2 May 2014 16:50:46 +0000
  Lol, if you need to drop a couple of pounds, do a canvas replacement on a day when it's in the upper 80...
• Fwd: [WetWesties] waterproofing (was RE: RAISED ROOF hard tops
  Historical mailing list - mordo
  Fri, 13 Oct 2006 12:13:08 -0400
  Ah, a presistent memory of my childhood spent on camping vacations in an old canvas tent: "Don't touch the tent!" It always seemed...
• Re: Oh fudge -- canvas zipper damaged
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Fri, 20 May 2005 19:24:27 -0700
  ...Or get new canvas, which totally frosts my pumpkin because this canvas is just fine. Maybe there is some kludge that will let me...
• Screws That Hold Down Canvas
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Sun, 24 Aug 2014 23:30:33 -0700
  Anyone know of a source for the itty-bitty screws that go through the aluminum tracks that hold down the canvas on a 90...
• Re: Pop Top Canvas And Little Blocks of Wood
  Historical mailing list - J Stewart
  Sun, 15 Apr 2012 11:39:05 +0000
  ...My hands hurt for days after doing the canvas. I just finished > transferring the little wood blocks over to my new canvas, and, well...
• Re: Westy Canvas waterproof?
  Historical mailing list - The Bus Depot
  Wed, 24 Jun 1998 07:52:23 -0100
  > How waterproof is the canvas in my '79 westy? Also, what can I do to make > it optimally waterproof, i.e. any suggestions of...
• Re: ripped canvas in pop-top
  Historical mailing list - Daniel Bey
  Fri, 27 Nov 1998 17:28:07 EST
  ...You can even purchase canvas needles and thread and sew the tear in the canvas right through the mending tape. That way it will...
• Re: Replacement Canvas for Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - The Bus Depot
  Thu, 19 May 2005 00:38:08 -0400
  > When I bought a replacement canvas (I got mine from GoWesty > as I could get it there in other than gray or tan), > instructions...
• Re: An idea for Replacing Pop Top Canvas
  Historical mailing list - J Stewart
  Fri, 2 May 2014 15:45:40 +0000
  And after having done two canvas replacements myself, one stapled and one later with the screws/rails, my vote is you DO NOT need...
• Westy Poptop Canvas - Experience with Grangers or Nikwax waterproofing?
  Historical mailing list - Todd Guttman
  Sat, 3 Oct 2009 09:11:54 -0700
  ...85 Westy's pop-top canvas.� Has anyone tried using Nikwax or Grangers cotton/canvas waterproofing on your canvas and if so, what were...
• Re: Scotch Guard Canvas?
  Historical mailing list - Donna Cassano
  Mon, 22 May 2000 18:20:07 -0400
  If you are scotch gaurding to try and make canvas more water repelent try this instead. On a nice sunny, preferably hot day, pop...
• Tent Canvas Question
  Historical mailing list - Turbo
  Sun, 17 Nov 1996 23:34:38 -0800
  Someone emailed me a question about westy tent canvas: any ideas? I heard there is a westy tent expert out there somewhere... THanks! >I...
• Mould (mold?) on canvas
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Palmer
  Sun, 13 Jun 2010 22:07:43 -0500
  ...I have an 85 Westfalia with the original canvas. Canvas is in generally good shape but a bit of mould has discoloured it. I...
• Re: brush-on canvas waterproofer?
  Historical mailing list - Tom Buese
  Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:24:05 -0600
  I spray on liquid treating on canvas tilts that we manufacture. There is a waterbased product that I used to use called "Kampkote", but...
• Re: Replacement Canvas for Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Wed, 18 May 2005 11:04:03 -0400
  When I bought a replacement canvas (I got mine from GoWesty as I could get it there in other than gray or tan), instructions...
• Re: An idea for Replacing Pop Top Canvas
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Fri, 2 May 2014 08:27:47 -0700
  ...An idea for Replacing Pop Top Canvas Hi, I've been thinking about how to replace my poptop canvas without having to actually remove...
• Re: Mould (mold?) on canvas
  Historical mailing list - Ryan Johnson
  Sun, 13 Jun 2010 21:16:03 -0600
  No idea but dont delay, mine did the same and now the mold has eaten through the canvas. If you find something that works...
• Re: Tight Canvas??
  Historical mailing list - Ken Wilford
  Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:32:37 -0500
  ...For those of you who have replaced > the canvas in your Westfalia, was the new canvas significantly tighter > than the old canvas? Any suggestions...
• Re: tent canvas
  Historical mailing list - Chris Chubb
  Thu, 20 Jul 1995 08:47:32 -0400
  On Wed, 19 Jul 95 07:43:03 CDT Markus Benne said: >Can anyone suggest where I might look for tent/awning grade canvas...
• Re: Oh fudge -- canvas zipper damaged
  Historical mailing list - BA
  Sat, 21 May 2005 12:05:58 -0700
  ...Or get new >canvas, which totally frosts my pumpkin because this canvas is just fine. > >Maybe there is some kludge that will let me...
• Pop top canvas hinge dirt
  Historical mailing list - Thomas Casal
  Tue, 6 Jul 2021 10:23:20 -0400
  Hey volks, What do you guys do to prevent the hinge dust from soiling your pop top canvas? I have a few year old...
• supplier of brown canvas???
  Historical mailing list - Mark Cumnock
  Thu, 29 Jul 2004 21:41:47 -0400
  I am looking to get some brown canvas material that is similar to the brown pop up canvas. I am wanting make a rainfly...
• Re: canvas or acrylic poptop tent
  Historical mailing list - Malcolm Stebbins
  Wed, 9 Oct 2002 11:07:32 -0300
  I went with the canvas 3 window poptop tent (from BusDepot) and I am VERY satisfied. I posted the long and detailed procedure that...
• Re: bursh-on canvas waterproofer?
  Historical mailing list - The Westy man
  Thu, 25 Sep 2008 07:22:20 -0700
  ...bursh-on canvas waterproofer? I would like to put some water repelant on my poptop canvas. The canvas was there when I bought the...
• Re: [WetWesties] waterproofing (was RE: RAISED ROOF hard tops
  Historical mailing list - Malcolm Stebbins
  Fri, 13 Oct 2006 05:37:06 -0700
  --- Joy Hecht <jhecht@alum.mit.edu> wrote: > How do you keep water from seeping through the canvas or the canvas seams in > strong rain...
• Re: canvas or acrylic poptop tent
  Historical mailing list - dr
  Wed, 9 Oct 2002 06:00:49 -0400
  I replaced the poptop canvas in a 73 bus a couple of years ago. I purchased a canvas top from : http://www.poptops.com...
• Re: Oh fudge -- canvas zipper damaged
  Historical mailing list - dusty edwards
  Fri, 20 May 2005 13:28:21 -0600
  ...Or get new > canvas, which totally frosts my pumpkin because this canvas is just > fine. > > Maybe there is some kludge that will let me...
• Re: Question: Westy canvas removel
  Historical mailing list - Anthony L. Mourkas
  Tue, 8 Sep 1998 16:38:36 -0400
  >Has anyone had to remove the canvas for a westy camper top? >I want to install a yakima bike rack on or new camper...