There will be a rain delay for this game

Despite the ominous sky, I got some things done.

Luggage rack is rebuilt and reinstalled.  New gasket and new stainless hardware. :)

I should make note that I cleaned up the roof under the luggage rack, applied a coat of wax and polished it.  The. Thought again and applied another coat of wax and left it.  After seeing all the stuff under there, I thought it prudent. 

I also installed a set of screens under the holes on the luggage rack.  Took some of my screen material from the basement, cut 5 patches and epoxied them onto the bottom of the hole. No more bugs, pine needles, maple tree 'helicopters' or other debris collecting under there.

Reinstalled the pop top vent.  New seal, stainless hardware and stainless hinges.  Should be no need to remove this again.

Got the roof on as it was starting to sprinkle.  

With the thunderstorm warnings going all afternoon, I thought I had achieved all that I could.  So why not celebrate a good job and have a tasty beverage?

Despite the warnings, I forged on in the sprinkle until I started to see lightning. Got all the new hardware in and the top lined up to close just right.

Started playing with the new tent.

I took a due from the original and tack stapled the new tent in all around with evenly spaced staples.  This allowed me to see if my tent install is correctly placed, centered and ready to move to next step.

At this time the thunder crash and lightning was becoming close.  So rather than deal with overly wet situation, I chose to put her away in the garage for the night.

Now for the next tasty beverage.

Pop top - part 3A

Some added pictures from tonight.

The new stainless footmans cleats.

Rebuilt the skylight with new stainless hardware. 

Got the Wasserstopper snaps installed.

There was an issue with the Wasserstopper that is worth mentioning.  The directions discuss installation on a later model, and a slightly different pop top.  The 84 has a metal brace along the front where the instructions state that the snaps are to reside.  I got around this by first removing the center bolt holding on the brace (as this is where the center snap needs to go).  It is larger than the screw holding the snap, so I put some glue into the hole and hammered in a dowel to fill the hole.  

While that was drying, I drilled 4 holes (2 on each side) aside the center hole and installed some stainless screws to take up any pressure that the center screw was holding.  Then I drilled the dowel for the snap screw.

Positioning the Wasserstopper, I located and marked off the remaining 4 locations for front snaps, drilled through the points with the 1/8 bit and then relieved the metal brace with a 5/32 bit so the threads would not strip out as I was screwing through the metal.

With those positioned, I worked my way along each side of the pop top adding the extension snaps, 2 per side.   Now when the top goes back up, I can adjust the Wasserstopper accordingly and all will be good for the next rainstorm!