Update on my vent windows
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Update on my vent windows
Some of you guys had some input on mounting my vent glass into the frames on my 60'. I ended up getting the setting tape and a tube of butyl rubber from MF. As a side note MF is the ONLY company to have personally called to say my order had shipped --- WOW!!! Now I wish I had a 53 - 56 so I could do more business with them. Anyway I thought the setting tape would be just the ticket but the glass was still too loose for my comfort. I also have a slight gap at the bottom, probably from the locking handle spreading the lower frame over time. So I then tried the black weatherstrip adhesive but that didn't seem to fill the gap between glass & frame at the bottom. Now I have redone the same thing only using the butyl rubber caulk both between the glass and setting tape and the setting tape & frame. I'll let you guys know how it turns out. Just makes me wonder what I'm doin wrong when several of you said you would have to break the glass to get them apart???
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Bememe,I just rebuilt the doors on my '59 this week.I did everything myself except set the vent g lass in their frames/set the window glass in their channels.I HAD high hopes,till I tore the rubber tape that the glass shop sold me so I could try it myself.Took it down to them,they set it all for $50.00,and I finished reassembling everything that day.They said they had some special tools or equipment that made it an easy task for them,and they looked a bit amused when I said I wanted to try it myself.Should have let them do it in the first place.Steve.
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Were you able to see how they did it? I have no trouble getting them together, they are still not very tight when assembled. Perhaps there are different thicknesses of tape? I know the tape I got for setting the side glass is wider & thicker.
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