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BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER.... A's, G's & E's


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    Post by docmcg Mon Sep 18, 2023 10:25 am

    Has anyone ever put one piece windows in their A100? How big a job is this?
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    Post by 69 Sun Sep 24, 2023 11:15 am

    You mean to replace the two-piece windshield with a one-piece?

    Why? That's some very special glas you'd need....
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    Post by docmcg Sun Sep 24, 2023 6:11 pm

    Not the windshield glass, the door glass. I’d like to get rid of the vent glass.
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    Post by donivan65 Sun Sep 24, 2023 8:03 pm

    Maybe you can adapt a power window kit and get a piece of glass made to fit,,,,,you might need to adapt the front channel to match the new glass,,,,,,maybe you can still use the old regulator ,,,,,if no one has a pattern of the 1 piece glass, you can remove the vent assembly and make a cardboard pattern and see what a glass shop says, but you still need some kind of front channel for the new glass.
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    Post by docmcg Mon Sep 25, 2023 8:29 am

    Gotcha
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    Post by 69 Mon Sep 25, 2023 10:13 am

    docmcg wrote:Not the windshield glass, the door glass. I’d like to get rid of the vent glass.

    Ooops, I misread (i.e. NOT read) the topic properly. Soorry. Cool
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    Post by donivan65 Mon Sep 25, 2023 8:04 pm

    So what if someone wanted to put a 1 piece windshield in, is there much of a curve or how much work to adapt a flat piece of glass to fit?
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    Post by 69 Wed Sep 27, 2023 11:01 am

    donivan65 wrote:So what if someone wanted to put a 1 piece windshield in, is there much of a curve or how much work to adapt a flat piece of glass to fit?

    I guess it'd need a quite sharp edge of like 5-8 degrees right in the middle. Not easy, if at all possible.

    Considering the necessary effort, I'd drop that thought within a splitsecond. Smile

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