Thread: window replacement

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I'm replacing the windows in my 1940 Ford truck due to bullet holes. The originals have a metal edging around them. Have any of you taken these edges off and reinstalled them on new glass ?

Sorry boss, I've never tried ( or had to) remove that banding.

PM Uncle Bob (Bob Parmenter). I'd bet that he's done it and knows the tricks. Hoping he got his internet provider issues sorted by now....

As I recall, you need to soften that rubber tape that holds the metal to the glass, then ease the metal off without bending it out of shape. A guy I used to know had a glass shop, and he would lay the window with the metal on his work table, squirt some alcohol from a bottle on around the edge of the metal/glass interface and light it; when it burned out, he just pulled the metal off. Today, I would think a heat gun would be the better tool for that. Putting it back is pretty much the same in reverse. You need to soften the "rubber" tape to get the glass to slip into it.

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