Ed
In that last paragraph he forgot to say he wasn't a BS artist.
Glen( needing a good HA HA.)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed Van Scoy" <edvs@uswest.net>
To: "DrMayf" <drmayf@teknett.com>
Cc: <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 7:08 PM
Subject: Re: Many Thanks and More Lexan....
> plasticator? Isn't that illegal even in Pahrump? You crack me up Mayf, bet
it
> looks pretty darn good :-)
> Ed
>
>
>
>
> DrMayf wrote:
>
> > Lots of thanks to those who have suggested ways to hold the doors
closed. I
> > will consider all.
> >
> > Now, the rest of the story....
> > As ya'll know, I sometimes get to big in the head and it was thusly
about
> > the windshield. I say to my self, hell I am an engineer, it can't be all
> > that bad or hard. So I first took the windshield frame from the car and
put
> > in on the work bench. Pretty flimsy, it is. It was pretty rusty so I
buffed
> > it with the wire brush and gave it a coat of primer. The I set about
making
> > myself a poster board template. Cut, try, cut some more, oops, cut to
much,
> > add some more back with duct tape. Keep trimming until it fits
wonderfully
> > well. Well, Ok, it really wasn't wonderfully well, but ok. So I bebop on
> > down to the local ACE hardware place and got mysely a piece of
Plexiglass,
> > cast acrylic, that is. It was cheap! But it looked like the right stuff.
So
> > I marked around my template and cut the drivers side. Oop! I cipped a
> > little. Ah, not bad, I'll Just be a little more carefull. Put in in the
> > frame and jeezze it was hard to fit. Struggle, struggle, snap! Broke
that
> > puppy right in the middle. Drat! $%^%^$##@ and other words. Then I
remember
> > you all and got your advice...LEXAN is the olny product that is even
> > acceptable. So I asked for suppliers and lots of ya'll responded. But, I
> > went ahed and ordered a piece from Aircraft Spruce Specialties...Holy
MOley,
> > only 59 bucks for a 4 x 4 piece! But UPS would not ship it. Would have
to
> > come FedEx from So Cal. and that was gonna be another 30 + bucks. So I
> > cancelled the order. Went to the Las Vegas Home Depot and there it
> > was....LEXAN....70 bucks for a 36 x 72 piece and no freight...Well
yesterday
> > I decided I had screwed around long enough on this so I got my template
out
> > again and marked the Lexan. Cut that puppy with my jig saw with a small
kerf
> > blade.WOW! What a difference between Lexan and Plexiglass: no rips, no
> > tears, no nothing except good cuts. So Afte trimming the drivers side
abit I
> > starter "messaging" the Lexan into the frame. I had already drilled
about 2
> > million scre holes for 6-32 SS Phillips Pan Head bolts. I used SS Nylock
> > "thin" nuts and 2 tiny flat SS washers (Mil Spec on those puppies).
Anyhool
> > I am grunting and graoning trying to get this sucker to fit the frame. I
> > anchored it down with several C clamps and it didn't look all that bad.
So I
> > drilled the Lexan and put the fasteners in. Well, most of them. I
developed
> > a large warp and bow. Ah, crap a dooly. Take it all apart and start file
> > fitting it into place. Now I have a couple of sets of holes along the
top
> > flange. Stuill has warp and bow. More fitting, more fitting. then it
dawns
> > on me that my paper template is thin in comparison to the actual
part...so I
> > cit it down some more. Looking better...Whoa! the frame is now
stretched!
> > Fortunatley I had measured the center and marked the pre installation
> > dimension down, somewhere....ah, finally found it. MAde myself a strut
to
> > hold the frame at the correct center dimension and used a bailing wire
> > turnbucle to hold it to that dimension. Now, started at the center and
> > worked to the side, cut file, hell with it, cut more with the jig
> > saw....finally it fit pretty well. Got all the bolts in and it is
reasonably
> > decent, but it will win no awards. Next side....learned my lessons by
now.
> > Oh and in all of this bith hands developed cramps in the thumbs and
index
> > fingers...all at the wrong times. Damn, those hurt. Anyhoo, marked the
> > passenger side piece and this time cut to the inside of the scribe line.
> > Much better with only a little "adjustments". Got all the bolts in and
> > doggone if it doesn't all look pretty good. I made a couple of backup
> > pieces for the joint in the middle from aludimum and put fasteners in
then
> > at about the same spacing around the edges. Almost looks professional.
> > Nah...not! I am an engineer, and a weldor, but not a plasticator. I am
gonna
> > take a pix of the protective sheeting because it says LEXAN on it in
about a
> > dozen different languages...
> >
> > Now, for the door latches......
> >
> > mayf the sometime dumb, always ignorant, desert rat
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