rear window

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Fri Aug 11, 06 11:37 am

Ivor wrote:I used a length of rusty mig wire. The rust is essential because it acts like an abrasive, then followed Dave's instructions of sawing around the glass and it went through the mastic like a dose of salts.

Cleaned it up with a Stanley knife and I used the Year One rear screen kit (which is simply the 3M mastic on a roll with some spacers)...it was a doddle...better than my attempt re-fitting the screen, when I did (as Dave so elequently put it, what the thick Yank with a screwdriver did) and busted it

Fred Dibnah - alive and well and living near Bicester

Ingenious Ivor. I like it

Ivor · Post by **Ivor** » Fri Aug 11, 06 12:29 pm

Fred, he da man!

Dave-R · Post by **Dave-R** » Fri Aug 11, 06 12:36 pm

I was going to use piano wire but wor lass would do her nut if she found one of the keys not working.

Na. The strimmer cord is best. You would have a job damaging the edges of the glass with that.

Ivor · Post by **Ivor** » Fri Aug 11, 06 12:53 pm

Sounds like a race to me Dave, let's see who can take the rear window out of a Charger first at next year's Nats!

Dave-R · Post by **Dave-R** » Fri Aug 11, 06 1:03 pm

I'll bring a brick.

Ivor · Post by **Ivor** » Fri Aug 11, 06 1:18 pm

Ah the old Walls End rear screen removal tool eh?

Dave-R · Post by **Dave-R** » Fri Aug 11, 06 1:41 pm

Wallsend is one word Ivor.

At least has been for the last few hundred years anyway.

And yes. Nothing better than a brick from the end of Hadrians wall.

Ivor · Post by **Ivor** » Fri Aug 11, 06 1:42 pm

I'll shut up then

AllKiller · Post by **AllKiller** » Sat Aug 19, 06 7:18 pm

The guy that took my rear screen out used a hot wire....fantastic connected a battery to each end of this home made device after he had made a small hole and threaded it through and WHIZZ like a knife through butter, and out it came about 2 mins,..... impressed

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Thu Sep 21, 06 1:26 pm

The hot wire trick has been around for years but be careful as when i was at school (yes i can remember that far back) we used to cut glass bottles in half to make cups ect so it could do that to a screen as well.