Where To Get This Channel?

[Usenet Nutter]

No it's not a post that should be on uk.media.tv.misc . I stay in a tenement in Glasgow and recently the Factor said that a contractor had said that our skylight was fecked and needed replacing as it seemed someone had left it open and the wind had damaged it ..cost well over £300..so we told him to get lost and a resident made a temp repair with a plastic panel.....even more recently a Sky fitter said that the skylight had no glass in it and rain was coming in ..where the panel went is anyones guess.Today I went up ...removed the "lid" of the skylight ( 2 screws ) and brought it down ....went to get a sheet of acrylic and cut it to size ...the glass ( now acrylic) is held in by a metal clip screwed on at one end and three metal u shaped channels which push in to clips built in to the "lid" round the other 3 sides .... Trouble is one of the pieces of channel is missing so I was wondering if anyone knew where I could get such channelling before I try to make some alternative some alternative . Cost so far £14.99 It's pictured here

[Dave Liquorice]

Have a look in a B&Q they have a rack of various channels in ali, the bigger the store the better. I don't thing they have some thing asymmetrical but is that essential?

[Usenet Nutter]

Probably not but I can grind or cut a recess where it fits in to the two clips if need be .I have an "angle grinder" ..lol There is a Superstore B+Q near me as well.

[Bob Eager]

Picture framers?

[Usenet Nutter]

That's a thought but are picture frame mouldings not just right-angled and not channel....I've got a picture frame somewhere ..Must have a look at the way it is made .

[Usenet Nutter]

Since posting my previous message I was having a root around in my "junk room"...what do you mean " You don't have one ?" and what did I spy but a fish tank and it had a heavy plastic trim along the upper edges ...I pulled one length off and could have jumped for joy ....It was like this

out with the saw and Stanley knife and with a bit of surgery to remove the lip on the short side and to reduce the long side a wee bit it fits almost exactly as it should ...just a thin piece of something to make it sit more tightly in the clip it goes in to....That'll save me running around B+Q or Metal Supermarket ...thx for your suggestions tho'.

Now that I think about it I might have other bits of similar trim for another tank I have ..lol

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Usenet Nutter saying something like:

[Usenet Nutter]

That's actually a good idea !!