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>From: Steven Ayres <comwest@well.com>
>Not to be a wet blanket, but it seems to me that getting a usable result
>with a knife would be practically impossible. You not only have to make
>an even cut along curves in a convex, resiliant surface, no mean feat by
>itself, you also have to get it the right depth and make an even void to
>hold the chrome without bunching the rubber. That wouldn't even be fun
>to watch.
I'd be afraid that it would most likely end in bloodshed.
>lot simpler to engineer a mold and make some correct rubber. Who's
>falling down on the job at West Coast Metric, anyway? Maybe all it would
>take is a letter campaign by a band of Squareback owners ....
One of these is probably the right answer. Either we do it or they do it.
The only question in my mind is whether all the windows would be served by
the same die, or if the front and back light gaskets are wider than the
sides. Or are there three sizes?
Jim
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