Colin and everyone who replied,
Thank you for your thoughts. I am leaning toward removing a couple of
rivets and putting a patch behind the skin and then a couple of flush
rivets. That might hide the repair to all except those who look very close.
I will let you all know how it works.
Don't worry about the mullion right now, I have what appears to be a
complete window and frame coming. Hopefully, I can get it to work where
the lower window was replaced with fixed glass.
Bill Kerfoot
> Hi Bill,
> As you can well imagine, we run into "issues" like this quite regularly (not
> from our own workmanship fortunately) & try to make them "disappear" for our
> clients as much as possible. I would suggest using an appropriately sized
> stainless steel carriage bolt fitted through the larger of the holes that in
> turn clamps a piece of aluminum to the backside of the skin. This will close
> off the smaller cut just below as well. Make sure you have some vulkem
> bonding the patch to the backside as well. This should polish up nicely &
> never give you sealing or rust problems.
> Colin Hyde
> WBCCI, VAC 1936
> VAC Technical Advisor
> GSM Vehicles Inc. Plattsburgh, NY
> www.thevap.com
> Co-sponsor of the www.vintagetrailerjam.com
>
> PS I haven't found a replacement mullion for your window yet.