Wednesday 18 June 2014

Glass out.

Found a little time this afternoon to remove all the glass from the racer.  Door glass was easy enough, I've done loads of roll down windows before so knew what to expect. simple nuts and bolts. Side windows refused to come out with the string method I've used in the past, just too tight in the seals, so as it's not likely to ever need them again I used a Stanley knife to cut the rubbers and pop the glass out neatly.
The front windscreen proved to be even more awkward, a bonded in windscreen was new ground for me. The correct way to remove it involves a cheese-wire saw which I don't have. Attempts to slip a flexible blade behind the screen to cut the bonded seal cracked the glass, so it was then a case of be damned and use brute force. In a scene worthy of Hollywood I kicked the screen out from inside. Sadly it doesn't work like in Hollywood, where the screen would readily pop out in a single albeit cracked chunk. Instead it shattered to bits held together by the laminate, and took a lot of cleaning up afterwards.
The rear hatch glass is even trickery, being curved much more towards the edges. But then inspiration struck - a gas torch and a flexible wallpaper scraper later and the glass reluctantly let go.
So now we have a glass free car ready for a rollcage and some remedial repair welding. And that damned wiring harness to finish with.

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