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#1 flobo

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Posted 11 January 2017 - 10:02 AM

Is the roofskin 1mm thick??



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Posted 11 January 2017 - 12:36 PM

Just under from memory of previous posts. 0.8mm seems to ring a bell.

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Posted 11 January 2017 - 01:37 PM

0.9mm, the same as the rest of the external panels.

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Posted 11 January 2017 - 07:34 PM

Good old-fashioned 20swg.

#5 flobo

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Posted 12 January 2017 - 07:10 AM

Thx guys!

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Posted 12 January 2017 - 09:31 AM

Good old-fashioned 20swg.

Yeah, surely metric was a bit too modern for British engineers in 1959 :)



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Posted 12 January 2017 - 02:46 PM

It's what's freely available now.

#8 absx2

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Posted 12 January 2017 - 07:01 PM

I guess the old ones had thicker roof skins as I can`t pop the roof down when over ambitiously polishing my 1967 and 1972 but its fairly easy on the 1982 and 1990. 






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