Well, I am progressing with my 57 Golden Hawk but every "event" creates delays and some confusion (to me!) After researching on the forum everything related to restoring the vent windows I still have an unanswered question. As near as I can figure, the rubber vertical seal that you get from SI should be glued in place with some kind of adhesive. However, after peeling the original rubber off, I found a metal strip along the length of the riser riveted to the frame. The original rubber seal had holes at every location there was a rivet. Did the rivets originally hold the rubber seal as well as the metal strip to the frame? The metal strip was clearly underneath the rubber seal. I suspect it was there to give more structural strength to the frame rather than hold the rubber on???? There are no washers beneath the rivets and it is hard to imagine that small surface area of the rivets was enough to sufficiently grab ahold of the rubber seal??? Anyone with experience here ? Should I just punch holes at the rivet locations and just glue the seal in place?
Thanks
Jim
Thanks
Jim
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