> I never had a problem putting a new glass windscreen in my TR3A. Measure
> the one you took out and the thickness of the new one. Compare. Did you
> replace the snaps that screw in along the top of the frame for the hood
> (rag-top) ? The threaded ends are too long. They will stick through too
> much and this will interfere inside and break the glass.
>
> My original sealing material was like black tape, well more like the
> textured cloth material an old black roll-down blind would have been made
> from. When I was doing my restoration from 1987 to 1990, I bought new
glass
> from a local PPG place and ordered the tape-like glazing filler from Moss
or
> Roadster Factory. It wasn't tape. It was about 1'16" thick black foam
> spongy tape. When I put it all together, I pulled this new spongy tape
all
> around the glass and it really stretched and became very thin. It all
went
> together very nicely but I had a lot of the excees which was extruding all
> around the frame which I cut off. It leaked ! The foam spongy material
was
> "open-cell" foam, ie. it leaks. It should have been "closed cell". So I
> used clear silicone bathtub caulking all around and the leaks stopped.
>
> Now after 11 years and 60,000 miles I have to change it again. Sandblast
> grit "sparkle crystals" all over and a couple of tiny chips. I wonder
what
> the new glazing tape is like today.
>
> Don Elliott, Original Owner, 1958 TR3A
> Montreal, Canada
>
> <Popnglo@aol.com> wrote
>
> > I have had to remove the glass and old glazing material from my
> windscreen,
> > for apparent reasons (ie: rattling, leaking, etc, etc.).
> >
> > The windscreen frame and glass (and all other hardware) by all my
> observation
> > is original.
> >
> > I have recieved from MOSS the replacement glazing strip -glass to frame-
> (two
> > pieces) P/N 680-455. The replacement, on the surface, appears to be
> straight
> > forward. Separate the windscreen frame into its two pieces, bottom and
> top.
> > Remove dried glazing material (what's left of it) and re-install new. A
> > simple matter of two people and a rubber mallet... Well not so. After
> several
> > attempts to install this, I felt that a trip to an auto glass specialist
> was
> > in order. Unfortunately, thier opinion was the same as mine ... a fear
of
> > breaking the glass ... due to the glazing strip being possibly too
thick.
> > They used silicone spray lubricant, I had tried KY jelly. In either case
> the
> > result was the same... Several attempts, but no success.
> >
> > Has anyone attempted and been successful? Any special technique? Does
> anyone
> > have info as to whether the glazing material from The Roadster Factory
or
> > Victoria British is thinner? I spoke to the Roadster Factory Tech
Support
> and
> > they mentioned that they've be notified time to time that the glazing
> > material was too thick, but they chalk it up to window thickness
> variation.
> >
> > Any feedback welcome,
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Ed ('58 TR3A)
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