Brown Job Posted January 24, 2014 Posted January 24, 2014 Hi folks, I'm now after the "chrome" filler strip that helps secure the windscreen and rear screens in early Manta B, Ascona B, Cavalier Mk.1. Having some trouble locating the right profile, there are a load of different ones out there but this flat-topped version with lips on either side seems very hard to locate. Seen loads of lovely restored cars in the mag, so someone must know where it's at? Bought the wrong profile originally, and the restorer fitted it all without bothering to tell me it was the wrong profile until I went and looked at it! Now the corner pieces won't fit ... BJ
Julian Posted January 24, 2014 Posted January 24, 2014 (edited) East Kent Trim Supplies. If my memory is tuned in, it is the same as the Hillman Minx strip, " the sealing strip I mean, not my memory!! You need 7metres to do booth screens, 3.5 metres per screen, they will advise you on that when you phone them. Edited January 24, 2014 by Julian 1
Rapierdave Posted January 24, 2014 Posted January 24, 2014 Is this what your after? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Opel-Manta-Mk1-Mk2-A-B-Windscreen-Rear-Screen-Plastic-Chrome-Moulding-Trim-/281102130612?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item4172fe1db4
robah Posted January 24, 2014 Posted January 24, 2014 Hi folks, I'm now after the "chrome" filler strip that helps secure the windscreen and rear screens in early Manta B, Ascona B, Cavalier Mk.1. Having some trouble locating the right profile, there are a load of different ones out there but this flat-topped version with lips on either side seems very hard to locate. Seen loads of lovely restored cars in the mag, so someone must know where it's at? Bought the wrong profile originally, and the restorer fitted it all without bothering to tell me it was the wrong profile until I went and looked at it! Now the corner pieces won't fit ... BJ Contact http://forums.mantaclub.org/user/3936-alymac/ on this forum he has the correct profile in black, he might have it in chrome (approx.£7/metre, approx.8 metres req'd). Woolies trim defo stock it in chrome, I think it is 8mm wide, but don't quote me on that
MANTAMAN Posted January 25, 2014 Posted January 25, 2014 I've bought this from Woolies in the past - http://www.woolies-trim.co.uk/p-1763-chrome-screen-insert.aspx it's a right Bast... to put in, there is a special tool that is a sort of pointed wire loop & roller but no doubt the ingenius could come up with something that would do the same job. http://www.woolies-trim.co.uk/p-1022-universal-fitting-tool.aspx
Brown Job Posted January 25, 2014 Author Posted January 25, 2014 Whoa! Wasn't expecting that level of response! Thanks everyone. Funnily enough, I'd done a bit of digging on my own before posting, and Woolies don't have this section profile. Maybe once in the past, but not now. Sample from East Kent Trim arrived this morning, that's the correct profile, as you say. Shall be placing an order, prefer to do it with them, even though it costs more than the eBay supplier as I can be sure of EKT, having handled a sample for myself and checked the profile. Also I can get the part number off them for future reference. Mind you, someone's making a buck or two along the way, having worked in extrusion myself I bet this stuff is turned out at pence per metre rather than ££ per metre! As for the special tool to put it in, a windscreen fitter told me that you don't use it for this section profile, it's more for the deeper channel screen rubbers - he said the tool tends to pull it out again as you go; he used a blunted screwdriver and soft soap on the channel. Thanks again, nice to know that I hit on the right supplier at last, I was starting to give up hope, which is why I posted. BJ
Julian Posted January 25, 2014 Posted January 25, 2014 It is easier to put in without the special tool, take the old one out, and thoroughly clean the channel out, and you will find that working the new strip in is easier if you slot the lead end in by slotting the bottom lip in and working away from you using a screwdriver, to ease the rubber onto the topside of the strip, doing that way you are only using the screwdriver on one side of the chrome strip, as the bottom edge is just pushe i as you go along, I tell you what, it is far easier to do than to try and explain it!!!! Over & Out.
Brown Job Posted January 30, 2014 Author Posted January 30, 2014 It is easier to put in without the special tool, take the old one out, and thoroughly clean the channel out, and you will find that working the new strip in is easier if you slot the lead end in by slotting the bottom lip in and working away from you using a screwdriver, to ease the rubber onto the topside of the strip, doing that way you are only using the screwdriver on one side of the chrome strip, as the bottom edge is just pushe i as you go along, I tell you what, it is far easier to do than to try and explain it!!!! Over & Out. Hi Julian, Yes, watched the windscreen pro bloke do it exactly as you have described. Took him about 15 mins to do both screens. He used some sort of soft soap to make the rubber slide over easier and of course the screwdriver is a blunted one. As the stuff seems to shrink a bit with age, I'd suggest that the longest sections ought to be the upper and lower screen, leaaving the shorter butt joint for the left and right edges, if you see what I mean - presumably no-one goes to the trouble of mitring the corners? BJ
Julian Posted January 30, 2014 Posted January 30, 2014 (edited) Pity it can't be done in one long strip and only have one join. and as you say a blunt driver! Cheers M8. Julian. Edited January 31, 2014 by Julian
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