At 07:53 AM 11/7/00 EST, Tony wrote:
>This is the reply I got from Metro Moulded Rubber Parts...Any help here?
>Gotta clean
>section of the rubber flange/gasket from a sliding curtain- the rubber that
>goes 3/4
>(front,top,back), around the aluminum frame? My curtains have nothing but a
>nub of
>rubber, so I can't even give dimensions...
I answered in directly, earlier today, as I could not post to the mailing
list from my location at that time.
Many of you old timers may remember several years ago, I tried to get
up an order for these. I didn't have the front money to fund the entire
operation myself and we never got enough commitments to take the project
forward.
What I found at that time was:
1. The factory changed their sidecurtain frame some time about 1970.
2. The rubber that is mostly available through the normal Morgan vendors
is for the newer frames and does not fit the old frames.
3. Talking to some of the suppliers/restorers, they indicated that they
didn't worry about it, when they were restoring a car. They mearly
supplied NEW side curtains.
4. I tried several of the "universal" weather strips and NONE fit!!!
I found this last item NOT to be very cost effective. The rubber should
cost less than $20. New side curtains were somewhere in the range of
$350 and up. This was at least 5 years ago.
John
John T. Blair WA4OHZ email: jblair@exis.net
Va. Beach, Va Phone: (757) 495-8229
48 TR1800 48 #4 Midget 65 Morgan 4/4 Series V
75 Bricklin SV1 77 Spitfire 71 Saab Sonett III
Morgan: www.team.net/www/morgan
Bricklin: www.bricklin.org
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