Replacing CGT Windshield DIY

[Geraint Lloyd]

Fair enough about the grease
 i have used it in the past, but i'm not one for very
shiny cars as the
other montreal listers will probably confirm.
I also come from climes where grease doesn't melt that
easily and there
is plenty of atmospheric water to wash it off!

On a rally recently with Brady_zq navigating for me,
we went through a
bot of forest and there were so may bugs in the air, i
thought it was
snowing.
I hit the screen wash and brady's comment on the
results of me trying to
clean the screen was
"Ah! you still have winter screen wash in this then"
WTF? I never realised that screenwash was seasonal.

As for the salt, it's something I heard a while ago in
the UK from a
doctor in casualty following an incident in the Scouts
with a bottle of
Fairy Liquid dish washing soap.
'nuff said about that though

it may be an "old wives tale" or no longer true. I
really don't know

Geraint
A stranger in a strange land


David Kase wrote:
> salt?  I am not sure but worth checking out.  Maybe
another soap would 
> work.  Soap will eventually wash out.  Can you
imagine spending the next 
> couple years trying to get grease off the
windshield?  Just when you 
> think it is clean, it will melt and ooze just a
little more.  no grease...
>
> Dave K.
>
> Geraint Lloyd wrote:
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>> I wouldn't use dish washing liquid.
>> I believe it has lots of salt in it
>> I could be wrong though
>> I ue a bit of grease ans wash it off after, I am
>> paranoid about rust,
>> but didn't fancy having salt from the washing
liquid
>> trapped under the seal
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>>
>> hope that helps
>>
>> geraint
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>> David Kase wrote:
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>>> No experience but I would think some Dove
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>> dishwashing soap on the seal 
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>>> would help things want to go into place more
easily.
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>>> Dave K.
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>>> Adam A. Luy wrote:
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>>>> Hi All,
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>>>> The AZ storms killed one of my CGTs, and damaged
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>> another. I want to take
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>>>> the intact windshield from one and install it in
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>> the other. The weather
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>>>> stripping/rubber seal is good on both of them. I
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>> know I can get the good
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>>>> windshield out with seal, but am a little foggy
on
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>> how to get it back
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>>>> in. I've even considered modifying the rubber
seal
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>> so I can just glue
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>>>> the whole darned thing in place.
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>>>> Any tips would be GREATLY appreciated! All the
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>> local glass shops want
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>>>> $500  to do this.
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>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> -Adam
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