Oh yes!

I reinstalled the seats in my Savannah this afternoon and I’m really impressed. The black dye did an excellent job and they more than came up to my expectations.

The next shot is of the arrangement I’ve used to secure the Savannah’s screen to the two internal sloping tubes which I think will be a big improvement on how I did it previously and will prevent any more flexing damage to the polycarbonate.

It consists of a sandwich arrangement with the polycarbonate sheeting of the screen being sandwiched either side by rubber washers of approx. thickness 2.5 mm which then have a metal washer above and below them. So from the outside the order is metal washer, rubber washer, screen plastic, rubber washer, metal washer and the whole is then pop riveted from the outside to the metal tube inside the cabin.

The metal and rubber washers are all of diameter 14mm with a 3.5 mm hole through their centres to take the pop rivets. I’m hoping that the supports being of such a diameter will offer much better support for the plastic of the screen and will obviate any further problems, but only time will tell. I certainly hope that I’ll be able to avoid replacing the Savannah’s screen which was a pig of a job when I did it a few years ago after an accidental fuel spill destroyed the previous one.