Re: RE: window glass replacement

From: Christopher Albers (Christopher.Albers(at)bubbs.biola.edu)
Date: Mon Oct 18 1999 - 08:41:07 CDT


pwheeler(at)ix.netcom.com writes:
>When talking to Rick of Sunbeam Specialties when I ordered a new rubber
>window strip from him, he suggested using a little motor oil rubbed
>along
>the rubber. The purpose is two fold: one to get the rubber into the
>slot
>correctly and smoothly, second is the chemical reaction in the rubber
>with
>the oil causes the rubber to swell and compress the glass into place
>much
>stronger than we can place it manually. I am not sure if water would
>do the
>same thing, but I imagine that WD-40 would.

Hmm...learn something new every day. I'll have to try it out.

CNA



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