"Flocked" weatherseal?

[Jon B]

Hudson convertibles and hardtops (as well as other makes) had an L-shaped rubber weatherstrip where the windows rolled up and met the roof (or top irons). Whereas it is still possible to find matches for the L-shaped seal itself (even back to the early 1930's), this rubber is no longer available with the fine, black velvet texture on it.

A friend of mine in the H-E-T, just mailed me a thin fabric called "velveteen" which is apparently sold by fabric stores, and possibly this could be adhered to the rubber with a fabric cement. It seems thin enough to take all the little ''ins'' and ''outs'', though I'm not sure how well it will "wrap" at the cut ends of the weatherstrip.

Another possibility would be to paint an adhesive on the rubber and apply black flocking (of the very fine type; not what you put on your Christmas tree).

Has anyone attempted to replicate these or other materials onto rubber weatherseal, for an original "look"?

[VicTor Z]

Hi Jon B, Have you checked with Kgap? If they don't have it, maybe Velcro will work. Use the the black flocking of the velcro, it has the sticky back. I sell this to many of my customers, not sure what they use it for. Velcro can also be used in the Div. bars on the early convertibles, need to be cut to fit! Please let me know how/if this works.

[Jon B]

thanks for the thought, Victor, but unless velcro has gotten a lot thinner lately, I think the ''loop" tape would be much too thick. This "velveteen" stuff that John Otto sent me (he's used it) looks to be less than a 64th of an inch thick, which would make it relatively easy to bend around some tight spaces. (Those L-shaped rubber weatherseals fit into a stainless steel channel, and when you wrap them with a fabric, you wouldn't want the fabric to be so thick that the darned thing wouldn't snap back into the channel!)

The velcro seems like something that would be excellent as a cushion (especially in a glass channel) but I think we need something really thin to wrap the weatherseal. You might want to go out to a fabric store and get a piece of this stuff -- you never know, you might find a handy application of it for some of your stuff.

[Howardspu]

Jon B, Have you had any luck finding the 36 radio gears? Howard

[Jon B]

I'm sorry! I forgot! I'll get over to my rental unit as soon as possible and rummage around for the parts radio