[71excella500]

Now here is an idea that I never thought of, so it pays to listen to your father! Just don't tell him I said that!!!!!!!!!!!!

My dad builds and flies remote control airplanes(somtimes they crash).

My 71 Excella 500 had all the tambour doors. Some doors are in good shape and others are not. They split along the bend as they usually do!

Solution! It's called Ultra Coat. You can get it at hobby shops. It's what is used when building recomte control planes.

We lined up all the strips of tambour and then cut four strips of Ultra coat. Each piece ran the hight of the door. Make sure you put the tambour face down.

Two strips where applied just inside the edge of the handle on the door, two more strips place evenly spaced in the centre of the door. Then you just iron it on.

The other option is to cut a peice of unltra coat to cover the back of the door completely except for where the door runs in the guides on both ends. Then just iron it on.

The ultra coat is very srtongs and it stikes to the paper coating no problem! Worked like a charm!!!!

When I get some pics taken I'm going to repost this item including the pictures. Best of all its a simple and cost effective solution.