Cheap trick

[Jeff Norwell]

Most of you probably know this ... I did not
I always groan at buying over-priced rubber products specially from Crap's...umm.I mean Mac's.
So I grabbed a small  bit of Vacuum hose and used it for the rubber channel on the dash  trim along the bottom of the windshield....

[Jeff Norwell]

Simply splice the tube and push over the channel area..... big cost of 5 bucks..and no crappy Chinese rubber...

[Jeff Norwell]

Not sure if it's needed but It will also work on the upper trim on the front windshield .......


I can't take credit.. my pal made the suggestion..... but it beat waiting for crappy Smelly Chinese rubber.

[Jeff Norwell]

For rubber stuff on all my cars..I use a local company that literally has hundreds and hundreds of rubber extrusions.
A good place to check out.....


https://spaenaur.com

[Jeff Norwell]

Small sample....

https://spaenaur.com/catalog/files/assets/basic-html/page-K2.html

[suede57ford]

Your trim color looks very good!

[RICH MUISE]

Good idea. I've used that idea/rubber tubing  for making peripheral grommets for holes electrical stuff passes thru. Great minds think alike I guess, lol.

[Ecode70D]

Jeff
     You get a star for thinking.

[6cyl57]

That is good to know..... but honestly .... my first thought was the band 
guess that shows my age some .

[lalessi1]

Cheap Trick...now that's FUNNY! 

[chapingo17]

Thanks for the advice.

[Limey57]

Neat idea, sometimes the obvious solutions just aren't obvious until someone discovers them.  We have huge problems with re-manufactured rubber products over here, engine mounts, suspension bushes etc look great but last for about 500 miles before falling apart.

[Jeff Norwell]

I personally just detest the crap being sold to us by some of these "restoration" outfits.... ridiculous over priced robbery.Yes.I understand on this year of car ... it's a specialty market..... but sometimes it's outrageous.
Case in point.. the original horn relay went south after replacing the weak single horn on my 57.(crappy aftermarket piece the previous owner installed)I have 2 gennie Originals I installed... well...... horn relay became faulty....yes,.... all the grounds were fine.Long story short... the local Napa wanted $49.99 for a replacement .....I complained to the parts Manager that it was listed for 16 bucks in the states....(I live in Canada remember)....I told him he was a fruitcake.
Went back home.... found another stock unit in a parts box ,installed and now I have a nice set of working factory horns.
I hate being zapped for over gouging parts.

[Jeff Norwell]

I guess my Scot/Canuck Background shows my "thriftiness"

ha ha

[Limey57]

I guess my Scot/Canuck Background shows my "thriftiness"

ha ha

Ha!  More likely you've been involved for so long you can smell crap a mile away.  I still smile when I see folks spending hundreds/thousands of $ at some of the "big name" restoration/street rod suppliers and wondering why the rubber parts fall apart, the chrome parts rust within weeks and the cast parts are too small (because they were cast from an original piece rather than an over-sized pattern that took into account shrinkage.

My mantra now is to try and restore or buy NOS rather than by repro.