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> RJ Dial wrote: The original
glass is plain 1/8" window glass. (re: question re: '62 window
panes)
B.H. reply: Are you sure it's 1/8"? That would be double strength glass. I
bought one replacement pane that thickness (.125") and the Hehr retainer
material was VERY tight. It will go, but it had me wondering if the double
strength was correct. I used warm soapy water on the rubber from Hehr, and
worked it in slowly with a stubby screwdriver and a wooden push stick. I can't
get a micrometer on the original glass (those I didn't remove from frames), but
it sure looks thinner ... I would have thought .090" (regular single strength
glass).
RJ wrote to Scott: >I wonder if
the yr/model you are working on does not have Hehr C1200 windows (the p/n is on
the lower external trim frame).
B.H. : The #'s on my windows (1962) all
start with "HEHR C1299". Side windows continue ..."11056185291" (roughly 18" x
29"), and the front and rear window #'s continue with ..."221431" (roughly 22" x
43").
Rick wrote: >They make two different sizes of seal. One for 1/8
glass,and3/16 glass the
last time I purchased it. B.H. : Rick, have you got Hehr part #'s? I've never heard this
before.
Scott wrote: >Unless what I received a few year back is the wrong stuff,
the window retainer
strip is not available. What is available is something similiar that has
to be cut, then cemented
in place with silicone. I chose to reuse my old, hard, shrunken retainers
rather than what is being
sold. They do a better job. In my book the stuff that is available is a very poor substitute. B.H. reply - I could see having this reaction to the Hehr material. I
am not finding it easy to work with. Not impossible, but certainly not easy.
It's 10x harder to install than those original plastic retainer strips in my
experience. But it works. Did you use soapy water on it? Is your glass
original (still held in with the black mastic tape)? Did it seem like the Hehr
rubber stuff was just too big to go in? I thought so too at first, but
with the soapy water and some careful persuading, it goes in and seems to make a
good seal at the surface with the glass. This is without any trimming of the
part. (I remember the info in the Vintage Advantage about modifying a part from
Hehr - maybe by Bud Cooper?)
All this for one measly part .... you lurkers see what you're getting
into?
Bob Harper (still having fun)
'62 Globe Trotter in SC
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