Thanks for the advice. Pretty much my line of thinking.

About the underside: Mine is in great shape, flocking wise, but it still
has 37 year old mold that came from germany. Not really bad, but
everywhere. Somewhere recently on the list, a product called Concrobium was
mentioned to get rid of mold. I ordered some and tried it. Meh. Then I read
the instructions on the bottle. It said the mold inhibitor had to get all
the way through fibers if dealing with them. So I resprayed and worked it
in a little with a brush. WOW! Mold gone, stains very very light. It's so
much better to deal with than clorox because it doesn't hurt anything else
in the car, or your eyes or lungs. I did the skylight area and surrounding
fuzz to prove that it worked satisfactorily. I will wait until the top is
on sawhorses upside down before I try to finish the job, since it is
coming off anyway.

Jim

On Sun, Sep 6, 2020 at 8:09 PM Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:

> Jim,
>
> I’m trying to remember the few times I’ve done this . Maybe the pain of it
> makes it hard to recall.
>
> I think I loosened all of the hinge to steel roof bolts first. Then raised
> roof to remove top of h bar to pop top bolts and folded the h bar and
> secured with many cable ties and or twine. Supported the roof on a milk
> crate on top bunk. Then back to the loosened bolts and removed. The pop top
> sort of balanced on the milk crate. Takes a couple of folk to remove the
> top from Van .
>
> I’m not even mentioning the tent. But now I will.
> If replacing it, just cut It free.
>
> I’m assuming you’re taking the roof off. Great time to paint it, and flip
> upside down and clean the fuzz. Or maybe you’re going to “carpet” the roof.
> If so, I found that the citrus based paint stripper does a good job of
> removing remaining flocking.
>
> Alistair
>
> > On Sep 6, 2020, at 2:11 PM, Jim. Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I'm close to replacing my Westy canvas, but I have one remaining
> > headscratcher. When I come to the rear hinges, do I:
> >
> > 1. Disconnect the rar hinges before disconnecting the raiser bar in the
> > front and
> >
> > 2. Do I disconnect the hinges from the body, or the poptop from the
> hinges?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Jim
>
>