I agree, the folded screen is more in the way than not -- better to remove
it entirely. I do just this on my 66 +4. With regards to mounting the
Brooklands screens, I've mounted mine "backwards" -- that is the "pins" on
the screens go through the front of the mounting bracket hole, not the back
(ie from the engine side, not the driver's side). This places the screens
about a half inch from the windscreen still allowing the Brooklands mounting
brackets to be mounted near the aft edge of the scuttle. I did find the
screens rattled against the windscreen at speed but this was corrected by
using some 1 inch wide leather strapping wrapped around the round bits on
the Brooklands -- holes in both ends, one up against the screen and the
other inside the the wing nut. Has the advantage of giving friction to the
joint and stopping the screens from blowing over at speed. Only other
consideration is to replace the fibre washers against the wing nuts with
round rubber washers -- this lets you leave the wing nuts in a north south
orientation so they don't bang against the windscreen when both are in use.
Vern Dale-Johnson
-----Original Message-----
From: William Zehring <zehrinwa@UMDNJ.EDU>
To: FPS3 <FPS3@aol.com>
Cc: morgans@Autox.Team.Net <morgans@Autox.Team.Net>
Date: March 18, 1998 11:11 AM
Subject: Re: VS: folding windshield
>At 10:27 AM 3/18/98 EST, Fred Sisson wrote:
>
>>Bob's point on the highth of the Rutter unit is right-on.
>>The folded windscreen was always right in line with my eyes so I did not
>enjoy
>>the folded screen as much as I thought I would. Folded, the windscreen was
>>about halfway up through the brooklands screen. Instead I became real good
at
>>simply removing the windshied alltogether. I could take it off about as
fast
>>as I could fold it...
>>The '55 original folding screen is much lower to the body. The problem
with
>>retrofiting though is that the body bracket is different,,,,
>
>Hmmm. That's an important point. As I recollect, my frame is bolted to
>the body side mounts by four or six hex head bolts. It'd take about five
>mins. to remove it, I recon. The next question would be the mounting of
>the brooklands. Does anyone out there have the brooklands screen mounted
>on their scuttle (is that the right word?)??? How much space is needed to
>mount the posts for the brooklands? Isn't the brooklands glass attached to
>posts with wing nuts? Can the glass be removed when the full windshield is
>up?
>
>Or, am I thinking about this too much? :-/ Probably what I need most is
>just a great afternoon drive on a warm/dry/sunny day. Right. When will
>that ever come?
>
>Will 'cabin fever' Zehring
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