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Posted By : Gwyneth Catterall, 03-Mar-2006,
09:47am
Can anyone recommend a supplier of this sort of thing? At the moment I am just looking for clips to secure the stainless trim on bonnet top and sides. I
have searched Canleys and Rimmers to no avail, I have used and can recommend 'Woolies Trim' but (for once) they have let me down.
Thanks (in anticipation of the usual good advice)
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Posted By : Steve Cureton, 03-Mar-2006,
10:10am
Try TD Fitchett in Telford, I'm pretty sure they will be able to help. They don't have a website but you can call them on 01952 619585. For the record
I have no affiliation with Fitchett, I'm just a satisfied customer of theirs.
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Posted By : Ian Osprey, 03-Mar-2006,
10:16am
Upsetting for the purists, but for a non-concours job, a (relatively) local restorer prefers to use clear silicone sealant. won't scratch the paint and
stops water getting under the trim. I reckon your chances of removing again in one, straight, piece are limited to say the least!
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Posted By : Dan Owen, 03-Mar-2006,
11:56am
Superglue? I have used it to "bodge" door trims back on to my Herald. It doesn't show up and hasn't fallen off yet after more than a year!
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Posted By : Gwyneth Catterall,
03-Mar-2006, 12:55pm
Many thanks guys. I will try the supplier but the sealant idea is interesting, the clips do seem to encourage minor but unsightly rust
streaks.
Thanks again
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Posted By : Geoffrey
Griffiths, 03-Mar-2006, 02:02pm
The GT6 Mk1 uses clips part no 613886 and 613766. Canleys sell these @ 20p each if they have them. Would these be suitable for the
Herald?
Geoff
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Posted By : Mark Howard,
03-Mar-2006, 02:54pm
Hi Gwyneth
I know the clips you are after because I need 5 of them for my vitesse bonnet. I have be told by many suppliers NO longer available. I
am a part time sheet metal work next time I was going to the work shop I was going to make some the problem is the spring steel that
they are made of. I was thinking of making them out of brass no rust hopefully these will work.
If you manage to find some one who can supply please let me know you can find me through the club. If you have no luck I will let you
know if my clips work. Some time next week??
All The Best.
Mark.
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Posted By : Ian
Osprey, 03-Mar-2006, 03:26pm
Out of curiosity, is it the clips that rust? I'd assumed it was where the clips scratched through the paint.
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Posted By : Colin
Lindsay, 03-Mar-2006, 05:19pm
The GT6 clips aren't the same, I'm afraid.
I need to fit a stainless strip to the bonnet of my 13/60 - a plan is to insert short strips of metal under the stainless strip
from the front end, secured by the lips on either side, but with a small brass bolt drilled through it. This will then slide
along until the bolts go through the holes in the bonnet to be bolted from underneath. Small rubber or plastic spacers over the
bolts should keep it free of the bonnet.
Colin
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Posted By : Gwyneth
Catterall, 03-Mar-2006, 05:43pm
Thanks y'all ! I managed to get the clips for the front of bonnet strip from Fitchetts as advised above. Very good service.
The clips which are rivetted onto the bonnet for the centre strip were 'out of stock' but the existing ones are not too
bad.
I find that both the clips and the bonnet can rust (the bonnet lip goes as the points on the clip penetrate the paint.
Anyway all sorted for now.
Thanks again
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Posted By : Kevin
Rochfort, 03-Mar-2006, 06:03pm
Colin,
Be VERY carefull using brass screws anywhere near the car.
Brass and steel (including stainless) are at opposite ends of the electro-chemical spectrum, and when water gets into the
equation, there is an enormous electrical potential difference between the two, which causes rust at an alarming rate - and
it's always the steel that corodes.
Kevin
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Posted By : Kevin
Rochfort, 03-Mar-2006, 06:04pm
Mark,
Be VERY carefull using brass anywhere near the car.
Brass and steel (including stainless) are at opposite ends of the electro-chemical spectrum, and when water gets into the equation,
there is an enormous electrical potential difference between the two, which causes rust at an alarming rate - and it's always the
steel that corodes.
Kevin
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Posted By : Mark
Howard, 03-Mar-2006, 08:32pm
Hi kevin
Thank's for the tip on the metal side of things. I have managed to find the spring steel I need from a building site the metal
stirp that holds the bricks to the palit. I will give it a go if all fails I will solder a steel bolt to the trim.
All The Best
Mark
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Posted By : Colin
Lindsay, 03-Mar-2006, 09:53pm
You don't recommend brass... and there I was, just about to order one of Chic Doig's new sets of poppers and brass bolts
for around the rear deck of the convertible... I'd beter give them a miss then and use stainless instead!
Colin
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Posted By : Kevin Rochfort, 04-Mar-2006, 08:42am
Colin,
If you can insulate the brass from the steel, and guarantee that the insulation will not fail, then brass is OK, but as
soon as you get brass and steel placed against each other, with an electrolyte (water) then you get electrochemical
corrosion. As brass and steel are at opposite ends of the scale, then the corrosion can be very rapid and severe. To
try an experiment, get a small bit of bare steel sheet, and drill two holes in it, and put a brass screw through one
hole and a steel screw through the other, and then imerse in water and watch how the steel corrodes faster around the
brass screw than the steel one.
Kevin
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Posted By : Colin Lindsay, 04-Mar-2006, 11:11am
I thought that's what paint was for...!!
I might try my old trick of dipping them in grease, like I do with any rivets I use.
Colin
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Posted By : Kevin Rochfort, 04-Mar-2006, 04:27pm
Paint is a good insulator, but make sure that it is a fully painted hole (including the bore) so that the brass
cannot come into contact with steel. Also make sure that during the service life of the item, it wont scuff
through the paint and allow an electrochemical reaction to take place.
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Posted By : Gwyneth Catterall, 04-Mar-2006, 08:20pm
Just to say that the clips supplied by fitchetts were not exactly the right thing after all. They were
really the type to hold fabric to a panel, howevr by bending the flat side of the clip outward they can be
made to fit in the trim strip and grip the bonnet edge. This does not detract from my appreciation of the
service!!.