[Healeys] Fitting glass to BN2 windscreen frame
Bob Spidell
bspidell at comcast.net
Wed Jun 23 14:11:10 MDT 2010
My dad and I just did this for our BN2.
We got a long strip of glazing rubber of sufficient width (about 3") from a windshield glass supply/repair house. Buy twice what you think you'll need--it's cheap and you may screw the pooch once or twice in the process. Stretch/wrap the glazing rubber along each edge (one at a time) with the same excess on each side, then gently tap the metal frame over it, getting the corners just so. There should be excess rubber on each end and along the length of the frame. Get a new, single edge razor blade and trim the rubber with a slight outward bezel along the length and just slightly longer than the frame on the ends (you can cut the rubber 'square' here), at the appropriate (more-or-less 45deg) angle. When you fit all frames up you don't want any gaps in the rubber on the corners. Don't press any harder with the razor blade than you have to--did I mention to use a new one?--or you'll score the glass.
There is a specific sequence to refitting the screws in the inner frame and the outer, but I don't remember it exactly. Do a 'dry run' till you've got the sequence figured out.
bs
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Bob Spidell - San Jose, CA
----- Original Message -----
From: "T+ B Willig" <willig at wtnet.de>
To: healeys at autox.team.net
Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 12:33:38 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: [Healeys] Fitting glass to BN2 windscreen frame
Can someone give me advices how to fit the windscreen glass to the frame on
my BN"?
Thanks
Thomas Willig
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