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Reshaping old canopy - 3/23/2008 2:22:20 PM   
Wblakeney


 

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From: Houston, TX, USA
Status: online 		I had the canopy come off an almost 30 year old 25 size pattern the other day. When I cleaned it with 409 and alcohol it became deformed, the bottom shrunk together. The canopy was 9" but found I could put it over an 11" canopy to reshape it but how to soften it. I tried a heat gun but it wouldn't retain the new shape. Finally I filled the old canopy with water from a hot water dispenser, about 195° F. and put it over the over canopy. I guess filling it with hot water gave a more even distrubition of temperature and that worked.
No chanch of melting the canopy either.

< Message edited by Wblakeney -- 3/23/2008 2:42:13 PM >

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