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It was the last of the nice days today and we went to put our BJ7 (I've asked for comments on the Healey forum but am here as we also have a BE) into its Car Capsule and - the zipper failed. Tried replacing the slider with a couple of spares with no success. Winter is coming to Calgary starting tomorrow (defined as highs lower than freezing). I'll be chasing zipper slide replacements tomorrow (maybe we did something wrong??) and also looking at portable fabric garages (various problems with our storage space and parking surface will make that difficuilt. Also refer to 'winter is here').
The Car Capsules have been great, as they eliminate the major problems arising from tarping a car: no condensation trapped in with the vehicle, and no rubbing by the material against the paint (yes: the Capsule collapses with snow, but I figure the snow holds the material down so it won't move).
I'm grasping at straws here, and would appreciate thoughts on this particular nutball approach:
- the Healey has a foot print of about 13'x5' (65 sq. ft); a household pillow is about 2 3/4 ft2, and Walmart sells them for 3 bucks Cdn, so for $ 70 I could put a layer of nice clean pillows up against the paint (duct tape them into a blanket if that looks necessary; lay a cloth car cover over them, and then the heavy water proof Car Capsule top 'cover' on top. Any condensation would ideally be absorbed by the pillows and then evaporate when the air is dryer; the weight of the top Car Capsule layer would prevent much movement, and any such movement would be absorbed by the thickness of the pillows.
Calgary is - basically - a high desert in the winter with diddly squat humidity, Chinooks that show up maybe monthly (raising the temperature in 1962 in a town south of here by 70 degrees Fahrenheit in an hour) and suck up the snow but also bringing pretty decent winds.
This started off with thinking of some sort of spacers to keep the water proof layer above the paint for air movement (pool noodles? styrofoam chunks?).
You're entitled to chuckle, but: why wouldn't it work?\
The Car Capsules have been great, as they eliminate the major problems arising from tarping a car: no condensation trapped in with the vehicle, and no rubbing by the material against the paint (yes: the Capsule collapses with snow, but I figure the snow holds the material down so it won't move).
I'm grasping at straws here, and would appreciate thoughts on this particular nutball approach:
- the Healey has a foot print of about 13'x5' (65 sq. ft); a household pillow is about 2 3/4 ft2, and Walmart sells them for 3 bucks Cdn, so for $ 70 I could put a layer of nice clean pillows up against the paint (duct tape them into a blanket if that looks necessary; lay a cloth car cover over them, and then the heavy water proof Car Capsule top 'cover' on top. Any condensation would ideally be absorbed by the pillows and then evaporate when the air is dryer; the weight of the top Car Capsule layer would prevent much movement, and any such movement would be absorbed by the thickness of the pillows.
Calgary is - basically - a high desert in the winter with diddly squat humidity, Chinooks that show up maybe monthly (raising the temperature in 1962 in a town south of here by 70 degrees Fahrenheit in an hour) and suck up the snow but also bringing pretty decent winds.
This started off with thinking of some sort of spacers to keep the water proof layer above the paint for air movement (pool noodles? styrofoam chunks?).
You're entitled to chuckle, but: why wouldn't it work?\
