From: Ryan Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Tue Jul 02 2002 - 05:55:17 PDT
At 1:00 AM -0400 7/2/02, J. Forster wrote:
>What causes canvass to shrink? I recently tried to get an original waterproof
>cover onto a WW II vintage radio (No. 19 MK III) and it was very tight. The
>canvass seemed very stiff also. I suspect the cover was well used since the
>outside is somewhat faded.
>
>That said, is there anyway to reverse the process of shrinking and stiffening?
Get it wet, and stretch. I had a bit of trouble with getting a new
WS19 cover on as well, but not as badly as you appear to have.
Perhaps you could get another cover not as faded and shrunken?
--
--
Ryan Gill rmgill@mindspring.com
| |
| O--=- | | |
|_/|o|_\_| | _________ |
/ 00DA61 \ |/---------\|
_w/^=_[__]_= \w_ // [_] o[]\\
|: O(4) == O :| _Oo\=======/_O_
|---\________/---| [__O_______W__]
|~|\ /|~| |~|/BSV 575\|~|
|~|=\______/=|~| |~|=|_____|=|~|
|~| |~| |~| |~|
1960 Daimler Ferret 1942 Daimler Dingo
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.4 : Fri Aug 16 2002 - 11:24:02 PDT