On Jun 6, 2010, at 12:04 PM, Robert Keezer wrote:

> Thanks, Jim.
> I sent the canvas back I ordered and they told me it was the correct
> year and model.
> Maybe seeing this video would have spared me a lot of trouble. Spent
> a whole day trying to install it with the pop-top on.
> I saw the old canvas had the "pie-cuts", I did'nt do any cutting to
> the new canvas.
> Then three friends helped me remove the top-all four of us could not
> get it to stretch.
> If we tacked it down at one end first, the corners would'nt reach at
> the other.
> No instructions came with the canvas.
> It was the cheapest I could find, $199.00,
> The canvas also weighs almost a pound less than the old original,
> doesn't have the welt on top, and the plastic edge on the bottm is
> only half the width of the original.
> ANy recommendations ?

With regard to what?

No welt on top = early staple in canvas.
Weighs a pound less = thinner material.
Cheapest = you just might get what you pay for.
No instructions = I've never seen instructions included. Do you get
instructions with any other auto part?

I bought my blue sunbrella canvas from AA Best & Co. (An aside here...
When I ordered the blue canvas, I was given a delivery date.  I
scheduled the install the Friday following the scheduled delivery
date. Date came and canvas was delivered.  Tan canvas. Delivered on
Wednesday.  I called AA Best & Co and told them what I had. Teri there
said that the correct canvas would be in my hands in time to keep the
appointment. The following day, I received a FedEx overnight package
with the correct canvas. and a return tag for the wrong canvas.
Outstanding customer service.) Cost me about $300 IIRC. Kris had no
problem installing it. (Twice. Originally on a staple-in top then in a
late model screw-in top.)  Many of us find it more cost effective to
pay Kris rather than make a mistake that might result in trashing a
$200-300 part. Ron at Bus Depot, Peter at Van-Cafe, Ken at Van-again
and I'm sure others all sell canvas.  Ron says that they all get them
from the same supplier.  The one that Curt had Kris install was a
factory replacement canvas.  Don't know where it came from, but it was
very nice.

Jim