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07/7/2016 at 8:12pm
Location: West Scotland
Outfit: Fleetwood Garland and Almera
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Lizzy if you can feel the inside soft at all then it is a rail off job, yes it is a pain but any other way is a bosh. the screws will be a pain to remove, the mastic like chewing gum (lost of white spirit and a clean with meths sorts that) use new mastic strip and stainless steel screws, your infil strip will probably be scrap so buy new, tip for fitting it, place in a bucket of hot water to make it softer and easy to insert. then open proscetto
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07/7/2016 at 8:34pm
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Our infill strip was holding water in the rail and was the screws that failed and let in the water , the rail was still sealed.
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08/7/2016 at 12:39pm
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Personally if i am doing repairs i dont bother refitting infill strips as it is an almighty faff. wee blob of sika smoothed round each screw to act as a washer will do the job. the main problem was the manufacturers used mild steel screws that rust and allow the water in, have actually seen glorified panel pins used. totally useless, no wonder the things leak
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