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Trying to put doors back together. How is the new channel held in place. All I have is the channel and whisker strips. Some say screws,clips, etc. Any help appreciated in the installation procedure.

Look carefully along the door where the old channel was. You may see holes near the bottom (towards the back of car) where a screw was set in there near the end of the strip, also a tab of metal may be on the side nearer toward the front of the door on the bottom of the strip section or a second screw. The top part is held in place by pressure of the curve in the slot. Sometime an adhesive is used but I did not use it. Use the window glass curve to get correct bend. Then place in door channel. You should be able to bend it with your hands or use a small thin block of wood cut to the shape of the window. It should be thin like the glass. Good luck.

I recently installed new window channel into my 1936 Standard Coach. My car is an early model so I have wood in the doors. When I removed the old window channel I found that the old channel had been held in place using 4 small wood screws evenly spaced through the entire channel length in the middle of the channel into the wood. I used the same screws to attach the new channel to the doors. I used a nail to punch a hole in the new channel and went very slow making sure to use the old hole locations.