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Pannier components you can recommend?

I've just finished welding myself a set of aluminium panniers, but need a couple of bits to finish them off.

Can anyone recommend where to buy tie-down loops, and rubber to form a seal between box and lid?

Metal mule have tie downs, 4 for £20, which seems alright I guess, but anyone got anything better?

My lid has a 'skirt' round it, and I want to glue a (square section maybe) rubber strip round it to seal against the box.

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Try these guys,Fasteners ~ Protex Fasteners Ltd I.m in the same position, going to use the handles as tie down loops and got some self addesive foam for the window fitters on the site i'm working on at the mo. I could grab you some and put in the post ?

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I can supply solid rubber or closed-cell neoprene strip for you. Give me your prefered size and a +/- option if you can, and I should be able to help you from stock. I get almost any size but get stuck for quite large minimum qtys.
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I got seals for mine from: Seals + Direct UK - Rubber Door Seals, Sealing Products
and fasteners from Protex, same as Pete.

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Excellent, plenty to be getting on with

Cheers for the info..

Protex were spot on for the fasteners, I got locking over-centre latches to lock the pannier lids, and heavy duty padlockable latches to secure the panniers to the frames.

I'm not sure what dimensions I'd need for the lid, as I don't know how much neoprene compresses. I've made the panniers to have a 5mm gap between box and lid, so maybe about 9mm thick seal?

Cheers for the link John, they've got an excellent range on there. What exact item did you go for? I think I'll give it a best guess and see how it goes, it's pretty cheap after all.

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Any ideas where I can get these cheaper?

All I can really find in terms of pannier tie down loops are from metal mule, does anyone know where I can get these:

https://www.metalmule.com/component/...d,26/vmcchk,1/



but cheaper?
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