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I didn't know the best place to post this, so car care gets it! My Rover's body is a wooden frame with aluminum external panels and leather internal ones. Various edges use pin beading, a flexible metal strip semicircular in section with pins every few inches to hold it down to a wooden member, the whole covered with leather. Some of the original has disintegrated and I want to replace it.
Several places, both in the UK and US, stock such beading (some aluminum, some lead-filled brass) but the smallest that I have been able to find is 10 mm, just over 3/8 inch, wide. The original is 6 or 7 mm, about 1/4 inch, wide. It might be possible to make something by flattening copper piping, but it would probably involve making a form of some sort and it would be a pain to make several feet.
Does anyone know of a source of this smaller pin beading?
Ken G, 1925 Rover 16/50 (San Francisco)
Several places, both in the UK and US, stock such beading (some aluminum, some lead-filled brass) but the smallest that I have been able to find is 10 mm, just over 3/8 inch, wide. The original is 6 or 7 mm, about 1/4 inch, wide. It might be possible to make something by flattening copper piping, but it would probably involve making a form of some sort and it would be a pain to make several feet.
Does anyone know of a source of this smaller pin beading?
Ken G, 1925 Rover 16/50 (San Francisco)
