stevegough
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 posted on 21/3/11 at 07:55 PM |
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Drilling windscreen surround to fit Weather gear.
Something that has had me worried when it comes to fitting a roof - drilling and fitting poppers to the thin windscreen surround.
The ally channel on the screen is 16mm x 16mm and the glass sits quite well into it, so the solution I adopted was to get some stainless 3.5mm screws,
grind the tip off...
 
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Then screwed into a carefully-drilled 3mm hole, the screw tip finishes in the rubber seating....
 
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Then, repeat with the actual screen itself - pretty successfully!
 
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Luego Locost C20XE.
Build start: October 6th 2008.
IVA passed Jan 28th 2011.
First drive Feb 10th 2011.
First show: Stoneleigh 1st/2nd May 2011.
'Used up' first engine may 3rd 2011!
Back on the road with 2nd engine may 24th
First PASA mad drive 26/7/11
Sold to Mike in Methyr Tydvil 19/03/14
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Daddylonglegs
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| posted on 21/3/11 at 08:03 PM |
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Nice job mate 
Very useful thread, could save a lot of cracked windscreens. Don't work for Autoscreens do you  
Just realised what I said then. if you did work for them then the last thing you want to do is avoid cracked screens! lol!
[Edited on 21/3/11 by Daddylonglegs]
It looks like the Midget is winning at the moment......
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stevegough
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| posted on 21/3/11 at 08:04 PM |
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The story continues...
I am now working on getting the Weather - Gear I have bought from GBS (for a zero) to fit accurately - I've found it to be about an inch too big
where it drapes over the rear bodywork, so I am fitting a slight modification to the poles to take up the excess. This will also be a double - whammy
- it'll adjust for slackness in the roof when hot weather hits!
Framework before modifying...
 
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After fitting 9" lengths of M12 threaded bar with nyloc nuts to adjust the length...
 
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Watch this space, because that's as far as I've got up to now.......
Luego Locost C20XE.
Build start: October 6th 2008.
IVA passed Jan 28th 2011.
First drive Feb 10th 2011.
First show: Stoneleigh 1st/2nd May 2011.
'Used up' first engine may 3rd 2011!
Back on the road with 2nd engine may 24th
First PASA mad drive 26/7/11
Sold to Mike in Methyr Tydvil 19/03/14
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rallyingden
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| posted on 21/3/11 at 10:50 PM |
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Nice one Steve. I'm hoping that will be my summer job 
RD
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mad4x4
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| posted on 22/3/11 at 02:53 AM |
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You got any dimension of the width of the windscreen of the "Body Bars"- would this fit an MK?
I made my own screen so
Scot's do it better in Kilts.
MK INDY's Don't Self Centre Regardless of MK Setting !
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stevegough
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| posted on 22/3/11 at 09:21 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by mad4x4
You got any dimension of the width of the windscreen of the "Body Bars"- would this fit an MK?
I made my own screen so
I can measure whatever you need - screen? ally support bar width / height ? Let me know.
Luego Locost C20XE.
Build start: October 6th 2008.
IVA passed Jan 28th 2011.
First drive Feb 10th 2011.
First show: Stoneleigh 1st/2nd May 2011.
'Used up' first engine may 3rd 2011!
Back on the road with 2nd engine may 24th
First PASA mad drive 26/7/11
Sold to Mike in Methyr Tydvil 19/03/14
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