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Old 02-17-2020, 10:35 PM
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Originally Posted by OVERULD View Post
My 74 Formy has the dreaded “bow” and it is one of the braced hoods. Keith’s engineering explanation debunking the myth that leaving them latched caused the bow was interesting, but I am curious as I am sure others are as to what, then, caused it and how do we correct it? Glad you don’t have to worry about it.

BJ
BJ - I've wondered the same. It's been my observation that these things warped (if they were going to...) pretty quickly. I saw it commonly even back in the '70s.

My guess would be it had something to do with disparate temperatures of inner / outer panels when they were bonded together, or a different rate of shrinkage between the resin in the inner and outer panels after they were joined. It wouldn't take much....

Just a guess, though - my experience engineering hood systems is all around the metal variety.

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