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Expert Posts: 2788     Location: USA - KY |  Trying to find a gasket for under the exterior mirror for my '57 DeSoto. Anyone have any leads?  Not my car in the pic, but mirrors are the same... Edited by FIN ME 2014-07-28 4:28 PM (dsmirror.png) Attachments ----------------  dsmirror.png (339KB - 40 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 3575  Location: Netherlands | Where is America's ingenuity gone I ask myself sometimes...  What I would do, for instance, is to just get, say a mousepad, of a piece of hard rubber or some thick plastic/nylon sheet, and cut out the contours of the mirrorbase out of that. The gasket is just to prevent damage to the paint, so you could use pretty much any material for that. | ||
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Expert Posts: 2788 Location: USA - KY | BigBlockMopar - 2014-07-28 4:42 PM Where is America's ingenuity gone I ask myself sometimes... What I would do, for instance, is to just get, say a mousepad, of a piece of hard rubber or some thick plastic/nylon sheet, and cut out the contours of the mirrorbase out of that. The gasket is just to prevent damage to the paint, so you could use pretty much any material for that. The gasket itself is rather thin, and has a very narrow, raised lip all the way around its periphery into which the bottom edge of the hollow mirror support fits. The existing gasket that I do have is original, but it has warped just ever so slightly. Even that very slight change in its original shape makes the way the gasket fits, very sloppy indeed. When my car was black it didn't matter so much, but now an ill fitting gasket would stick out like a sore thumb against the light green paint. It did occur to me to make one myself of course, but if I could find the real thing I am pretty sure that it would fit and look a lot better than my attempt at a home made jobby.  I am glad to hear that Gary Goers has them. Thanks for the lead, guys. I must have missed seeing them in my rather dog-eared copy of his catalogue. I do happen to have another order coming my way from Gary, so I'll ask him to send a gasket or two.  Edited by FIN ME 2014-07-28 11:48 PM | ||
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Expert Posts: 2788 Location: USA - KY | Thank you for the info, guys! Today I am back to work making a new glove box liner - it's kind of fun! Not sure if I will bother flocking it or not, as was done back in the day...hmmmm... | ||
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Elite Veteran Posts: 769 Location: Oley, PA | Here's page 44 from Gary Goers' catalog. If it's item #43, the last catalog I have has it priced at $2.55. (GoersP44.jpg) Attachments ---------------- GoersP44.jpg (91KB - 38 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 2788 Location: USA - KY | #43 be it! Thanks! | ||
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