below is a copy of a post to alt.autos.studebaker - any ideas how to
successfully glue pieces of weatherstrip together?  The problem is that
for the car I'm working on ('55 Stude coupe) trunk weatherstrip with
molded corners hasn't been available for years, if it ever was, so I'm
trying to come up with an acceptable-looking solution.  Or should I just
stop being so darn finicky, buy a new piece of weatherstrip long enough
to go all the way around, and just bend the corners like everyone else does?

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Rather than order a new piece of trunk weatherstrip, I'm going to try to
piece together a couple pieces that I found in JP's magic box of random
weatherstrip.  All pieces that I found are at least as long as the side
of my trunk opening.  So what I was thinking was instead of bending the
weatherstrip around the corners like I usually do, I'd miter the corners
and then it would look intentional and might even fit better.  But what
to glue them together with?  Black weatherstrip cement?  Tire patch goo?
 Any other ideas?  Would it be worth it to stick some fine pieces of
stainless wire in there to try to keep the corners together?  (I'd do it
anyway just to see if it helped, except I'm all out of fine stainless
wire...)  Yes, I do know to wipe the weatherstrip down well with lacquer
thinner before doing anything with it.

anyone tried this before?

thanks

nate