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74,
Is the front and side curtain on the hardtop that hard plastic I've seen in some applications? It looks too smooth to be the soft flexible stuff that scratches just by looking at it ::).
 
No, but it is also not soft....this is a very heavy grade vinyl that I am VERY satisfied in, and doesn't flap around! The guy did a great job! ;D I don't like the hard plastic (eisenglass). Too tough to maintain by far.
 
I saw some guy at the Atlantic City Boat show the past couple of years who had stuff that was almost like maybe 1/8 th inch plexiglass. It was hard but flexible but tooo hard to roll it up for storage. It was flat and wrinkle free and didn't distort your vision when looking through it. It really impressed me.
 
Sounds similar to mine.......

Unfortunately my wife called me a little while ago and told me one of the cats was running around like a retard this morning and pretty much F-ed up one of my side-curtains...... :mad:

I had them laying flat on a rug from when I pulled them off the other day and had some big beach towels over them to protect them until I could get a big sheet to store them in.

The cat tore out on them, kicking the towels aside, and......I don't even want tot hink about it....I need to cool down.....but I asked how many scratches, and she said "You don't want me to count them". :mad: :mad:

Should be interesting...........might be going back to Nautical Needles to have a new piece of vinyl sewn in......we'll see....

I have some 3-step Novus plastic scratch remover/Polish that I have had from when I owned Jeep CJ's. Can't buy it anymore, but it used to work REALLY well on my soft top curtains from 4-wheeling brush scratches.

Maybe I can salvage it......... :-[
 
That cat is lucky!!!!!

My attention got diverted yesterday when the snowstorm that was supposed to end peacefully here at noon turned into pouring rain, then freezing rain the blizzrd snow, all paralyzing the state, turning the roads into inches thick sheets of ice.....EVERYONE was on the roads, not expecting it, so the plows couldn't plow!

To top it, my wife called and we lost power at home and our basement was filling with water (sump pump, no electricity, high water table! :eek:)

Took me 2 hours to get from work to Home Depot (20 minutes usually), had to piss in a coffee cup in traffic in toss it, I had to piss so bad, LOL.......what a frickin day....lucky they had a few Generators left, and I got a nice 5250W continuous, 6560W peak Coleman with the Subaru motor.....nice unit!  Got her hooked up, pumped out the basement, jury rigged the frickin boiler to get heat.......power was out for 8 hours, they finally got it on just after 10PM.

Now I am going to get the right receptacle and hook it to be able to backfeed my whole house from my garage, thru my 30A out there, so I can run it in there (detached garage, no cars in it, and the CO will kill the mice  ;D).

SO, THE CAT IS F-IN LUCKY MY ATTENTION/FRUSTRATIONS GOT "DIVERTED"!!!!!!!!!! LOL
 
74Formula233 said:
Sounds similar to mine.......

Unfortunately my wife called me a little while ago and told me one of the cats was running around like a retard this morning and pretty much F-ed up one of my side-curtains...... :mad:
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CAT=TARGET!!!!
 
Try some Pledge polish on the plastic. A guy at the eyeglass place told me that's what they use to remove scratches in plastic lenses of glasses.
 
It has to be lemon pledge. I know people that have used it for years. It really works good on the standard flexible glass.
 
You guys sure about the Pledge trick? I used some Novus light scratch remover, and it didn't getthem out, but helped a little, then used the Novus polish after to top it off.

Then I separated each by blankets and rolled the whole bundle up for storage.

The scratches weren't quite as bad as I was picturing, so I think I will live with them. I guess now it means I won't be so mad when I put another little scratch in one from a rod tip or something LOLOL ;D
 
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