[Healeys] Sidescreen felt

[Kees Oudesluijs]

For rubber parts you may try Mc Greggor in Canada:

MacGregor British Car Parts
376 Mill Street, Units 5&6, Dundas, Ontario L9H 2M1
Phone: 905-627-4006

macgregorukcarparts.com

Kees Oudesluijs

Op 28-9-2023 om 14:38 schreef Simon Lachlan via Healeys:
>
> Hi,
>
> I’m trying to sort out the sidescreens in my MkII BT7. Nothing too 
> drastic, just the rubber seals and the felts. I gather that there are 
> quite a few different sidescreens so see attached.
>
> Now. I bought the rubber surrounds and the so-called felt. Actually, 
> the surrounds aren’t rubber anymore. They’re some sort of synthetic 
> siliconish rubber lookalike. Problem being that stuff doesn’t stretch 
> so it’s a pretty tricky install. I half recall doing the same job 
> about 25 years ago….the mists of time. I could push and pull them down 
> the slots in the frames and get them in. Not easy, but doable. I tried 
> that this time….it would go in just so far – about 80% - and then the 
> friction would overcome my best efforts and all my WD40. I spoke to 
> Keith Bates at Ahead4Healeys, whence they came. He said that the trick 
> with these things is to lay them into the slots so that one side is in 
> place, then force the other side in with a suitably rounded-off 
> implement ie not to cut the material. That worked OK and I’ll leave a 
> note for my heirs as to how to do it in another 25 years time.
>
> That was just for info and interest…..So, the felt…It arrived as a 
> length about 70” (1780mm) long by  ¾” (19.05mm). (Sufficient for both 
> sides). Black felt, nice stuff. It bears little resemblance to what’s 
> survived in my car which, I’d guess, started off at ¼” (9.5mm) wide 
> and is/was stuck to one side of the groove through which the 
> Perspex(?) slides.
>
> I am tempted to try to lightly glue this stuff into the groove in a 
> U-shape and let the to and fro of the Perspex fashion it into shape. 
> But I can see that’s likely to be easier in theory than in practise! I 
> have visions of stuck windows and mess everywhere.
>
> Any ideas? What’s the accepted wisdom? Trouble being that it’s not 
> something that we do very often, if ever at all.
>
> Interestingly, Keith said that there’s only one supplier worldwide for 
> the rubber seals. And that’s in the States, Moss. He kind of admitted 
> that the items are pretty shoddy but said that they might only sell 10 
> in a year, if they’re lucky,  and that making their own was out of the 
> question. Tooling alone would kill it.
>
> Simon
>
>
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