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Hello,
If you are willing to invest some money, you can have the seals reproduced yourself and then hopefully sell enough to cover your costs by selling some to other 1800ES owners. But if you do take on this project, don't be surprised if it takes a few years to make your money back.
FYI, about 20 years ago, we looked into reproducing a seal for a customer's 1961 Volvo P210 that had rare optional roll down windows for the rear passengers, but the cost was too high due to the complexity of the seal as it required multiple molds.
The seal you need is actually quite simple to reproduce as it is just rubber pushed through a single mold like Play-Doh, the process is called extrusion. And to make the seal, you just need to cut the correct length of the bulk molded rubber and glue or bond the ends together.
You will have to get an extrusion mold by providing a sample of the old rubber and back then, 1 of the simple molds we needed to make was going to cost about $500.00.
I found the machine shop that was going to make the molds by 1st contacting a company that had the machines to make extruded rubber seals and they sent me to the machine shop that made their molds.
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Eric
Hi Performance Automotive Service (formerly OVO or Old Volvos Only)
Torrance, CA 90502
hiperformanceautoservice.com or oldvolvosonly.com
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