Sourcing Princess 410, 1992 model, window seals, who/where?

[vas]

quick question on behalf of a mate with this boat.
Window seals especially around the salon/lower helm area are getting hard/brittle and even started leaking slightly. I understand it's a job undoing and removing all the ss bits to replace the rubber, but he's trying to do it properly. Boat is in excellent condition anyway, so don't blame him for wanting to find the ff seals, just doesn't know whom to contact. Needless to say, boat is in Volos, so just need the bits, no fitting service.

So, anyone got any clue on who was doing them and if one can mail order them as a catalogue item or somehow without having to send samples? Plan is to buy all the seals and then start removing one by one, replace and refit.

cheers

V.

 

[petem]

Look no further than http://www.sealsdirect.co.uk/.

They will sort you out!

 

[vas]

Look no further than http://www.sealsdirect.co.uk/.

They will sort you out!

thanks Pete, but couldn't find any seal sets from them, I'll email them, but do you know they actually sell kits for various UK presumably boats? Wasn't at all clear on the website.
Mind we do have a specialist shop in Athens where I got all my window seals, but that meant remove the windows get the seals down to him to check availability or even fabricate for you...

cheers

V.

 

[DAKA]

thanks Pete, but couldn't find any seal sets from them, I'll email them, but do you know they actually sell kits for various UK presumably boats? Wasn't at all clear on the website.
Mind we do have a specialist shop in Athens where I got all my window seals, but that meant remove the windows get the seals down to him to check availability or even fabricate for you...

cheers

V.

When I first got my boat over 10 years go I had two leaking windows

Side windows with a felt type seal
Washed seal with water and used a blunt knife to scrape clean the felt


Front curved window with part perished rubber

Used Stanley knife to cut a V out between the glass and the frame, then used quality marine black silicone to fill the V.

It looks origernal and it's been 100% successful for over 8 years.

I can't see any useful benefit to taking a window to bits to replace the seal, the inner seal which is away from sunlight is unlikely to be damaged, it's only the bit you see that perishes

 

[Winchy51]

Hello Trend Marine products in Norfolk UK probably supplied Princess with the windows for your friends boat they have a spare parts department I would think they could supply anything you need for the window rebuild try an e mail to them Hope this helps

 

[essexboy]

You could try Trend Marine in Norfolk, I think they were /are original supplier

 

[vas]

When I first got my boat over 10 years go I had two leaking windows

Side windows with a felt type seal
Washed seal with water and used a blunt knife to scrape clean the felt


Front curved window with part perished rubber

Used Stanley knife to cut a V out between the glass and the frame, then used quality marine black silicone to fill the V.

It looks origernal and it's been 100% successful for over 8 years.

I can't see any useful benefit to taking a window to bits to replace the seal, the inner seal which is away from sunlight is unlikely to be damaged, it's only the bit you see that perishes

Down here after 24yrs even the inner seal is starting to fail (at least cosmetically)
I don't blame him for wanting to do a proper job, just doubt it's worth it unless we get all the right bits beforehand. Mind, he's already gone through the stanley knife, v cut filled with sika already

Hello Trend Marine products in Norfolk UK probably supplied Princess with the windows for your friends boat they have a spare parts department I would think they could supply anything you need for the window rebuild try an e mail to them Hope this helps

You could try Trend Marine in Norfolk, I think they were /are original supplier

thanks guys, will email them and see what they say!

cheers

V.

 

[vas]

hm,

just got a reply, they have no record of working on this for Princess and recommend contacting them directly.
will do so

cheers

V.