MustangSix
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 posted on 27/4/03 at 01:51 AM |
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Windscreen Fabrication
Who among you have actually done this? My car is 4" wider than book and I guess I'll have to do this myself.
I understand the method for bending the top portion, but how do you bend the lower inverse curve?
Also, what do you use to seal between scuttle and the windscreen? Is there a commonly availble rubber extrusion?
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Peteff
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| posted on 27/4/03 at 08:30 AM |
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Leave it flat.
We made one for a standard scuttle but never used it. Too much hassle sorting glass. Our idea was to leave the bottom flat and use a piece of ally
profiled to fill the gap to avoid complicating it. You could use ordinary "U" channel on the ally to fill any minor gaps.
yours, Pete.
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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chrisg
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| posted on 27/4/03 at 11:23 AM |
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Don't get me started!!
EVENTUALLY I did the same as Pete i.e flat accross the bottom with an ally infill piece. The curved bit at the bottom really caused me problems as a
stress point. I had FIVE (count'em) crack from the same point, bottom corner.
Cheers
Chris
Note to all: I really don't know when to leave well alone. I tried to get clever with the mods, then when they gave me a lifeline to see the
error of my ways, I tried to incite more trouble via u2u. So now I'm banned, never to return again. They should have done it years ago!
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theconrodkid
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| posted on 27/4/03 at 01:03 PM |
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i did mine dead easy,cut a peice of plywood to the shape of the glass complete with bottom curve,make a frame round ply,take ply to glasscutters and
get screen made,glue screen in place
who cares who wins
pass the pork pies
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Alan B
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| posted on 27/4/03 at 03:04 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by theconrodkid
i did mine dead easy,cut a peice of plywood to the shape of the glass complete with bottom curve,make a frame round ply,take ply to glasscutters and
get screen made,glue screen in place
Yep, agreed....I didn't know there were any other ways....
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theconrodkid
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| posted on 27/4/03 at 05:50 PM |
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well chrisg obviously found another way
who cares who wins
pass the pork pies
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chrisg
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| posted on 27/4/03 at 07:14 PM |
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Are you deliberately misunderstnding?
I'll come round and slap your legs!!
I'll type this slowly for the hard of thinking.
WHEN THE SCREEN WAS FITTED IT BROKE.
Although the glass cutter broke three himself.
how did you think I got my screen? - described it to him over the phone and got it through the post?
jeez.
Cheers
Chris
Note to all: I really don't know when to leave well alone. I tried to get clever with the mods, then when they gave me a lifeline to see the
error of my ways, I tried to incite more trouble via u2u. So now I'm banned, never to return again. They should have done it years ago!
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locodude
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| posted on 27/4/03 at 08:38 PM |
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Time of the month is it Mr G?
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chrisg
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| posted on 27/4/03 at 09:04 PM |
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You still here?
Cheers
Chris
Note to all: I really don't know when to leave well alone. I tried to get clever with the mods, then when they gave me a lifeline to see the
error of my ways, I tried to incite more trouble via u2u. So now I'm banned, never to return again. They should have done it years ago!
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stephen_gusterson
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| posted on 27/4/03 at 09:22 PM |
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You can apparently get glass cut by people like autoglass windscreens.
Complete with the vital emark.
I was gonna have my frame chromed. I got a quote and it was 200 quid!!!!!!
So, its chrome paint, or au naturel.
atb
steve
btw
the really big b and q stores do 1 and 2 mtrs lengths of various steel, alu and brass strip, rhs and channel.
[Edited on 27/4/03 by stephen_gusterson]
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MustangSix
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 posted on 28/4/03 at 07:32 PM |
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So, none of you has any good advise on how to bend the lower portion of the frame?
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Northy
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| posted on 28/4/03 at 07:54 PM |
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The pictures in the Tiger Avon book show no surround at the bottom, just the rubber strip.
Graham
Website under construction. Help greatfully received as I don't really know what I'm doing! 
"If a man says something in the woods and there are no women there, is he still wrong?"
Built 2L 8 Valve Vx Powered Avon
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flyingkiwi
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| posted on 29/4/03 at 07:18 PM |
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Like theconrodkid said, make a plywood frame to the size of the windscreen you want, along with the curve at the bottom to follow the scuttle. Bend
the top half of the ali around the plywood (help's to get ply of the same width as the ali channel!) using the method in the book, then to do
the bottom curve using a smooth rubber, nylon or wood mallet. This should form the ali channel into the curve. Then just cut the ends of the channel
to suit the upper section. Voila!
chris
It Runs!!!!! Bring on the SVA!
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