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David G. Bell
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On Thursday, in article <[email protected]>
[email protected] "Larry" wrote:
> I sat in my landie today during one of the frequent downpours watching the
> water cascade into the back and the front and thought I really ought to get
> round to replacing the door seals.
>
> In fact watching it come in the passenger door, made me realise why it had
> gone so rotten at a particular point.
>
> Sadly I botched up replacing the window channel today, you need to make a
> hole so the the window locking catch can come through, and I really F*cked
> it up, Oh well it will only go rusty again and then I can do a better job
When I did that job I had an odd bit of steel strip the same thickness
as the window glass, which I could clamp in a vise as a support. You
need to mark the seal in the correct place. Then I made two hacksaw
cuts to define the ends of the hole.
Joining the cuts is left as an exercise for the reader...
--
David G. Bell -- SF Fan, Filker, and Punslinger.
"History shows that the Singularity started when Sir Tim Berners-Lee
was bitten by a radioactive spider."
[email protected] "Larry" wrote:
> I sat in my landie today during one of the frequent downpours watching the
> water cascade into the back and the front and thought I really ought to get
> round to replacing the door seals.
>
> In fact watching it come in the passenger door, made me realise why it had
> gone so rotten at a particular point.
>
> Sadly I botched up replacing the window channel today, you need to make a
> hole so the the window locking catch can come through, and I really F*cked
> it up, Oh well it will only go rusty again and then I can do a better job
When I did that job I had an odd bit of steel strip the same thickness
as the window glass, which I could clamp in a vise as a support. You
need to mark the seal in the correct place. Then I made two hacksaw
cuts to define the ends of the hole.
Joining the cuts is left as an exercise for the reader...
--
David G. Bell -- SF Fan, Filker, and Punslinger.
"History shows that the Singularity started when Sir Tim Berners-Lee
was bitten by a radioactive spider."
