On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:

I tried a couple of things. I found that most self adhesive closed
> cell foams were to stiff and not compliant enough to make a good seal
> with the low forces applied to close the various flaps. Open cell
> foam was better,

Good point.

It may be that I used open cell, I just don't remember.  Now you got me
thinking. I must have pics of those flaps somewhere!

The original material in some cases, might be non existant for the owner to
"refer" to. The open cell may well have been what was there OEM. Mine were
nearly dust when I pulled all apart, but what you speak of makes sense in
terms of what I recall removing.

Neil.

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