A tip on a clip?

[Clive]

Ian, it is the factory method, not mine!

I cut a strip off from the edge which is against the  1/4 light, enough that it was the same level as the seal is against the actual window.

[SixasStandard]

2 hours ago, clive said:

Ian, it is the factory method, not mine!

I cut a strip off from the edge which is against the  1/4 light, enough that it was the same level as the seal is against the actual window.

Thanks Clive......I'll give it a go.

Ian

[SixasStandard]

3 hours ago, Pete Lewis said:

i always tied a long bit of cotton on each clip  you an retrieve the little sods when they fly off

six pair of hands one pull clip up one to hold seal down another to hold a timber punch  and one more with the mallet 

then its pull up   press  down   hold still   whack  the seal down  all at the same time 

Pete

Blimey Pete.......you're not exactly filling me with confidence!!

Ian

[Pete Lewis]

but it works   Ha !!

its the only way i have ever got  the clips  fully onto the seal and door lip. 

notice i didnt mention sticky plasters , or eye patch  or kevlar gloves 

just mallet and half a fence post adds a bit of grunt to the job 

pete

[Colin Lindsay]

If - - if - you can attach the clip to your fingertip then you're halfway there. I have tried it with a small circular magnet sellotaped to the very end of my fingertip... balance the clip on it, reach up inside the door and hook it on. The short ones with the flat bottom are easier. I've also tried it between two fingertips but it's a real balancing job. You just need a grip that will stay in place when you let go. After that a short length, six inches or so, of a wooden drift will put it in place properly. If you've short fingers, you've no chance.

I know the tool for pulling them up works, but even a length of wood like the handle of a hammer with a groove cut into it, so that the clip is held upright, means you can push up, rather than pull up, which can often mark the paintwork.

For the quarterlight, I just unbolt it,  push the outer strip down onto the gap, then rebolt the quarterlight which holds the rubber in place as well. 

Just have plenty of patience and be prepared to fish them out of the door bottom. Repeatedly. It gets messy if you've previously used Waxoyl, too.

 

[poppyman]

You could always just stick it on with Tiger seal.......  

Tony.
 

 

[Pete Lewis]

is that to stick  a clip to colins finger    

Pete

[poppyman]

Just now, Pete Lewis said:

is that to stick  a clip to colins finger    

Pete

That would work Pete   Make sure it's dry before going to the loo.....

Tony.

[SixasStandard]

1 hour ago, poppyman said:

You could always just stick it on with Tiger seal.......  

Tony.
 

 

Yeah right!!.......that's what some upstanding citizen had done after the car was painted back in 2016. I actually found a brand new clip in the door bottom when I went 'magnet fishing', so I'd hazard a guess that the previous owner had supplied the paint shop with the correct new clips for the seals, but the lazy buggers obviously gave up after failing with the first clip and then just glued the seals on and binned the clips. I take a dim view of such antics!!

Ian 

[poppyman]

I was joking Ian honest, you would never get the buggers off again ever with tiger seal. They really are a pain in the backside. I can't think of a more horrible job than those.

Tony. 

[Colin Lindsay]

3 hours ago, poppyman said:

That would work Pete   Make sure it's dry before going to the loo.....

Tony.

Good job I'm too civilised to pick my nose.

[SixasStandard]

2 hours ago, poppyman said:

I was joking Ian honest, you would never get the buggers off again ever with tiger seal. They really are a pain in the backside. I can't think of a more horrible job than those.

Tony. 

If we're talking horrible jobs in general......then my all time favourite would have to be my experience of cleaning out the internals of an ancient shaping machine when I was doing my apprenticeship back in 1976. One of the training instructors thought I'd been a 'bit lippy', so I was given a bucket and a small scraper and told to clean the interior of the old Invicta metal shaping machine in the corner of the workshop. I have never experienced such foul glutenous deposits as those I found in that old machine, nor do I ever want to again!! By the time I'd finished I had a filthy black slime all up my arms practically to the shoulder (I wasn't allowed to dirty my overalls) that took days to scrub off. H&S rules were rather more 'flexible' back in those days. Needless to say I was rather less 'lippy' for the remainder of my apprenticeship!! Fitting some weather seals will be a walk in the park in comparison.

Ian  

[Colin Lindsay]

1 minute ago, SixasStandard said:

If we're talking horrible jobs in general...

At my last house the pipe into the septic tank was blocked - twice - and by the time it was spotted we had a pool of raw sewage spreading out from under the trees. I had to walk through it, amongst conifers that were very tightly interwoven, find the concrete slabs over the tank, lift them (massive things over six feet across) without dropping them down into the tank, find the blockage and clear it. It were right grim! It happened once more about six months later then I found it was someone flushing floor wipes down the loo. That soon stopped when I told them they would clear the next blockage themselves.

[SixasStandard]

I can sense this thread morphing into a Monty Python sketch...........You had it lucky!.....we used to dream of cleaning a blocked septic tank......

[Pete Lewis]

started a new post for life skills  !!!!!!!!!!!!!

pete