| Tambour door repair
We have a '72 Ambassador with the same paper backed tambour. Ours was nearly completely seperated with only a few of the strips still connected. The first thing I did was to get some off-white, all-cotton denim from the fabric store. Then on the work bench, I cut the remaining pieces apart and cleaned the dust off of everything. The next step was to cut a piece of denim the size of the door minus 3/4" on both sides(so it will still fit into tho tracks). To adhere the tambour strips to the fabric, I used 3M 77 spray adhesive directly on the fabric. Then I laid the strips onto the cloth using a large framing square to keep it all true. The glue dries very fast and was ready for installation within minutes. It worked very nicely. Merry Christmas and good luck!
Will and Lori
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Lori & Will
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