Duece Windshield ?

Remember that the glass is and has to be laminated safety glass. Basically it's two sheets of glass sandwich together with a plastic film in the middle. If you are going to cut the glass yourself the trick is to score the glass on one side then flip it over and score it in the same spot on the oposite side. Gently crack the scores so that it basically breaks but doesn't come apart because of the safety film. Then get some denatured alcohol and pour it into the cut it doesn't take much then light the alcohol on fire...yep set it aflame....this will heat the plastic film and allow you to finish the cut either by melting it away or till you can move the glass enough to get a razor blade in it and cut the film seperating the cut piece of glass from the other piece.

Thanks guys, Ill be sure to keep the pics coming through. It will be a while though. Seems like I can only manage about an hour or two a week on it. Maybe during the holidays coming up I can get some work in on it.

Thanks for the tip K8icu. Sounds like it will work really well. Uhhh...a while back I ran into a bit of a snag. The small window frames did not want to come apart easily. I tried to seperate them with the upmost care. I couldnt even get the top cap/hinge assy. away from the frame. I tried soaking them with PB blaster for a week or so but still no budge. After taking a soft hammer to them, it was clear that I was doing more damage to the frames getting them apart than was worth the glass. I took a hammer to the glass:(. Man that stuff is strong with the plastic inbetween. Even the small pieces were stuck in the hardened seals around the edge, so if I was able to get the top cap off, it didnt seem like I would be able to slide the glass out. Once the glass was knocked out I could get a hammer inbetween the frames and I found the reason for my problems. The upper corners of the frames have a two way (90 degree) spring loaded clip that keeps everything square and tight. You can see them in the parts breakdown earlier in the thread. Those things were locked in there with rust like you cant imagine. Just curious, anybody have any tips for a different way of getting them apart. All in all I got them apart, but will need to get glass cut when its done. I dont know much about auto glass. I can ask the shop for the same that came out of it...laminated safety glass? Is it common stuff/expensive? Talk to you guys later, Jay.

Any good glass shop should have laminated glass. It is used often time for entrance doors to shops and stores and like in Ohio it can be used in entrance doors for houses. It is illegal to install regular glass in doors in Ohio so it has to be laminate, tempered, or plexiglass. Tempered glass is the stuff that when it breaks it shatters into a million small pieces. So, it would not be very good for a windshield because if a rock or something chipped it it might just shadder into millions of little pieces. That is why you use laminate. If you get the size correct (remember glass shops want width and then length) the glass shop should be able to cut it to size for you then all you'll have to do is install it.... :)

I worked for Glass Doctor for about a year a few years ago as a glazer doing both home, business and auto glass so I got know a lot about this stuff... :)