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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Any ideas? What’s the accepted wisdom? Trouble being that it’s not something that we do very often, if ever at all.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Simon<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>