05 Cobalt LS "extreme" makeover(56k=death) not for the faint of heart
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Looking good, but I have a question. I am wondering why you have filler on the glass mounting flanges. Since the glass is structural, we are not supposed to have any filler where it is urethaned to the vehicle because the filler could de-laminate in another collision.
Dennis
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Heres some info i found.
http://speedyglass.com/autoglass/safety.html
http://www.myautoglass.org/tip_detail.php?ID=4
http://www.myautoglass.org/tip_detail.php?ID=2
Also, in a hard enough impact tempered glass simply shaters, and i'm sure you know that if you are cutting out a tempered glass and you put more than say 1 inch bend in it it will also shatter. (around corners, god never do the last cuts right in a corner, i broke a few that way)
Anyways, the reason i did put filler there was to cover the strecher strains from OEM stamping. I accidentaly cut the molding around the back glass while removing it, and to get a new one you have to buy a new glass. So its going back in without it, but for it to look right i had fix those. theres about 1 mil of filler in there, and i ground it nice with some 36 grit to get good adhesion. Also, its pretty rare so little filler will delaminate. That tends to happen more when its thicker, like 1/4 inch.
Talking about glass, does your shop do glass? i mean the bodymen? I swear here we are the only shop in town that does it, everyone else sublets it out.
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No, we sublet all urethaned glass . I know there are a few shops in the area that do there own, but most don't. Works for me, I hate glass. especially broken glass!
ICAR, pretty much our only training I think considers all urethaned glass structural.
Dennis
ICAR, pretty much our only training I think considers all urethaned glass structural.
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Doing glass is one of my favourite jobs. ;-) We had a big windstorm here about 2 months ago and we did 14 windsheilds in one week. ;-) We went thru so much Urethane that month it was ridiculous. ;-) Also changed a lot of roof skins and did a lot of completes because of roof shingles falling on cars leaving scratches everywhere.
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