vacum drying?

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f32ms
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vacum drying?

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I have read some posts that mentioned using a vacuum to dry out cored decks. My question is: I have lots of little screw holes in my hardtop, what would be the best way to seal it to hold a vacuum?
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I would try aluminum foil tape, as used in HVAC Business, strong and when pressed down with sqegee is seals. I have it temporary over the holes where my anchor storage parts were.
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f32ms wrote:I have read some posts that mentioned using a vacuum to dry out cored decks. My question is: I have lots of little screw holes in my hardtop, what would be the best way to seal it to hold a vacuum?
If you're talking about how to hold/seal clear plastic to the surface you're vacuuming, you can use puty around the perimeter or two sided tape. There was a thread on this that I posted a link to and showed this, I just can't remember where it is.
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2 sided tape sounds like the ticket.
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