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Re: [TR] TR3b windscreen cracked, again!

To: TR250Driver@aol.com, triumphs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [TR] TR3b windscreen cracked, again!
From: Bill <anabil007@comcast.net>
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:55:35 -0800
I am sure to be corrected if mistaken, but I believe the two screws 
on the windshield stanchion are unique, and of different lengths. 
Also if the frame has had "trauma" at any point and is not perfectly 
/ correctly "bowed" it will put tension on the glass and it will 
break easily ...

Good Luck

>Guys,
>
>I walked out Friday morning and it was cracked from  just below the top
>screw, driver's side all the way to the bottom. Nice  clean break. Disturbing
>thing is that the ole lady TR3b has  cracked her windscreen in the same spot
>a few years back. Like the exact  same thing.  No warning, can't say any
>pressure was put on it.
>
>Last time it was the nite before a TRA  Concours.  Went down the morning of
>and there it was, cracked! This  time same thing.  The only thing I can
>think of is I did warm up the garage  the day before to work in there to 68
>from around 32 degrees and let it cool  down again that nite.   What 
>am I doing
>wrong?  I have heard of  the screws being to long and chipping the glass
>but I was real careful with  them. 
>Woe is me,
>Darrell


-- 
"Thinking is the hardest work there is. That's why so few people 
undertake it." - Henry Ford
Bill Pugh
1957 TR3
"Casper"
TS16765L
Wallace, CA

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