<VV> Convertible Rear Window

[Ray Davis]

Bees Wax used to be avail at all good hardware stores.  Try finding it at a big box.  Sometimes found with canning supplies and at fabric (where they sale cloth for making clothes) stores.

Ray "no I don't sew" Davis
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> From: jimster1 at earthlink.net
> To: harding.ian at gmail.com; Vairtec at optonline.net
> Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 16:42:40 -0800
> CC: virtualvairs at corvair.org
> Subject: Re: <VV> Convertible Rear Window
> 
> Another point to ponder, driving in a blazing sun with the top down can be
> uncomfortable. Unzipping the window and letting the breezes blow through is
> really nice. Here in northern Califunny, I unzip the rear window with the
> first warm weather and leave it down and drop the top when I feel like it.
> Jim
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org
> [mailto:virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org] On Behalf Of Ian Harding
> Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2011 2:02 PM
> To: Vairtec Corporation
> Cc: virtualvairs at corvair.org
> Subject: Re: <VV> Convertible Rear Window
> 
> Excellent! Looks like I'll have to give the zipper a try if and when the
> rains end.
> 
> - Ian
> 
> On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Vairtec Corporation <Vairtec at optonline.net
> > wrote:
> 
> > Ian, I am an unrepentant unzipper.
> >
> > I release the latches at the windshield header, then unzip the window,
> > then lower the top.
> >
> > When raising the top top, once the top is up I re-zip prior to latching
> > the latches.
> >
> > Also, I lube the zipper periodically with a small cake of beeswax.
> >
> > --Bob
> >
> >
> > On 12/28/2011 12:52 PM, Ian Harding wrote:
> > > This
> > >
> >
> http://oldcarmanualproject.com/manuals/Chevy/1964/Corvair/FoldingTop/pages/C
> orvair_folding%20top_04_jpg.htmsays
> > > to unzip the rear window before lowering the top. I had always heard
> > > that the zipper is never to be unzipped under penalty of death. It is a
> > > trap which will unleash the hounds of hell if touched.
> > >
> > > Does anyone routinely unzip their rear window without ill effects?
> > >
> > > - Ian
> > >
> >
> >
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