Dear Combined Wisdom.
I have a cockpit lever assembly which uses the above to form overlapping dust seals on either side of the lever. It’s nearing the end of it’s flexible life!
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The obvious bits in the image are the edges – the material surface is the woven pattern fabric. The core is a rubber type, and thickness is about 1mm. Ignore the fuzzy bits – that’s wear.
It’s a dark battleship grey, but I might be able to use fabric paint on something that’s otherwise suitable.
Anybody know where I might find some (roughly half a square foot)?
By: boguing - 5th May 2014 at 21:23
He sounds just like one of my Grandfathers. He didn’t like cats either.
By: windhover - 5th May 2014 at 21:07
No problem!… or as my Grandfather liked to say….
“There’s more than one way to skin a cat than sticking a scalpel up its Ar*e!”
By: boguing - 5th May 2014 at 20:55
Twilllfast looks exactly like it. Marvellous!
Funnily enough, the Woolies site came up in my googling, but unless you know what you’re looking for…
Thanks for that.
By: windhover - 5th May 2014 at 20:44
We did something like that on a restoration some years ago. We couldn’t find anything remotely resembling the dust seal; so after much ponder over a few pints of giggle-juice we came up with the idea of using Pirelli webbing, contact adhesive sandwiched between strips of black “Twillfast” Classic car Hood binding.
It actually worked, and when fitted, really did look the dogs doo-da’s.
If you want to try this; both items are available from:
www.woolies-trim.co.uk. They’re based in Market Deeping.
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May 5, 2014 at 6:14 pm