TC Windshield restoration

[Charles Hill]

I just sent a lot of questions, so I thought I should send some answers: I just got thru rebuilding my windshield on TC 7387. Started out as a simple replace the leaking rubber seal between the windshield and the frame -- You know how that goes. Ended up rechroming the windshield frame and buying a new windshield and all the necessary screws. The actual job was a whole lot easir than I expected. I have a couple of tip I discovered: 1. Silicone grease on the rubber helps everything go together. Works better than dish soap - and helps keep everything waterproof. Its what is used on the O rings on my Nikonos underwater camera. 2. I wasn't impressed with any of the windshield wiper wiring I've seen, so I used regular 16 ga wire. To cover the run from the windshield frame to the cowl, I covered the 2 wires with a braided shoe lace! Took a while to feed them thru the shoe lace, but it looks good. Bruce Collins: Thanks for the tracing of your windshield. Everything worked out great. Regards, Charles Hill

[i.thomson@talk21.com]

I like the braided shoe lace idea. Good one Bruce. -------- I covered the 2 wires with a braided shoe

>lace! Took a while to feed them thru the shoe lace, but it looks >good. > >Bruce Collins

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