Door Seals

[A62Tim]

Hi,

Does anyone know where I can get original style door seals WITH the metal strip? 

All the ones I can find from Paddocks, Craddocks, JGS etc all have the metal strip missing, can you get them with it? Can you buy the strip separately?

Thanks

Tim

[Phil2014]

I always use the the off the roll seal from Baines with a 10mm x 2mm aluminium strip from B&Q inside, held on with countersunk M4 (sorry) Allen screws. Easily removed if you ever need to replace a section of seal.
https://coh-baines.co.uk/products/sponge-section-srs097ep

Phil.

[diffwhine]

I have some new original seal which firms part of a LR genuine 88" soft top kit. The metal strips are actually moulded into the rubber and pre-punched for the rivets.
I don't know if anybody makes it anymore and the problem is that the steel insert is not rust protected, so rusts inside the rubber.
I'm going to sell it with a complete LR Genuine soft top kit in the Spring. The buyer can decide what they want to do with it.

[haveyoubooked]

+1 on Baines seals. Used them on S1 E type, MGC, MGBs and very impressed after i'd been disappointed by the quality of seals from the usual suspects.

[steve6027]

I was using a kit at work today. This involved sealing a rubber tube to two aluminium bungs, with a one way valve to inflate the bladder inside another tube.
The banding used to seal the bladder to the tube was stainless steel on a roll, along with a clasp and another mechanical item.
The roll of stainless was around 10 metres long x 13mm wide and around 1-1.5mm thick, but had no holes.
Ideal for fitting inside coh-baines seal and you could pick up on your existing holes already drilled.
I know you can buy builders stainless steel banding with the holes already punched, but this would mean drilling extra holes in the bodywork.
Will see if I can get any info where the company purchased it from.

Steve.

[Craig T]

Stainless steel banding material is what I used as well.
It is made by a company called Band-It and you can find it easy enough on an internet search. It's 1/2" wide and slides inside the COH Baines seal very nicely.

I use a leather hole punch to make holes in the seal and a metal joggler / hole punch tool from Frosts for the punching holes in the steel. Tin snips are used to cut the strip to length.
Pretty quick job once you get going.

Craig.

[diffwhine]

Which reminds me... Craig I still have your tools!

[steve6027]

I looked up the details of the banding at work today, looks to be similar to what Craig T posted.
Company is: Reid Brothers, Glasgow.
The material we use is:
Reference C40499 Stainless Steel 1/2" wide (12.7mm) 0.030" (0.76mm) thick.
There is some thinner material.
Reference C44499 same width but 0.015" (0.38mm) thick.
It comes on a 100 foot roll.
This might be a bit thin, but I haven't got any original to compare.

Steve.