uPVC window anatomy

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Hi guys

Trying to replace the various rubber components of my windows as they've all had it, and I'm not entirely sure what the 'names' are of the parts, which makes searching for them quite hard!

Firstly, the rubber that is attached to the frame which the window closes against. I believe this is a weather seal. It seems mine used to be 'bubble shaped', but the bubbles are long since compressed and disintegrated in places.

Secondly, the rubber seal between the glass and the beading. Again, long since disintegrated. As far as I can tell, this may be some kind of 'E Gasket', although predictably the ones on my windows match no shape that I've come across so far.

What are these two items called? :D

Pic of the 2nd item, apologies for the quality my phone camera is playing up

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They are both referred to just as window gasket. Loads available in evil bay, you have a bubble gasket and the picture may come under a ' flipper ' gasket. Very hard to measure them 100% accurately as they tend to squash and deform as you try and get a measurement
 
Evil bay haha, Like it!
You can get sample packs from the Evil place for 99p. I would suggest buying a few to try.
If you cant get the exact one you may find another similar one would work just as well
 
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I've ordered a load of different sample packs, hopefully something is close enough. Most of the flippers I've seen are 'v-shaped' whereas this is more like an f-shape.
 

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