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Old 05-10-2010, 09:55 AM
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That looks to be a pretty radical chop, I hope the owner isn’t too tall. Are you going to sink the windshield into the cowel or cut it ? If you’re cutting it down do you use the sand blast method or masonry saws or have you found someone that’s good at cutting curved glass or ??? I know I’m getting a little ahead with these glass questions but with anything with curved glass you have to think like that before you even start cutting. Curved tempered glass is even a far worse problem. ~ John Buchtenkirch
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Old 05-10-2010, 09:58 AM
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Here is Ben cutting the roof

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Drawn and quarted

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cant you hear Dennis making vroom vroom noises?

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Now, we are cleaning the primer off all the edges for welding. Next will be laying it out and seeing what we need from the donor pieces to fill things in

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Old 05-10-2010, 10:08 AM
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Sinking the windshield causes way to many issues especially on a chop like this. We will be sending it to our local glass guy at Brown & Randall. He takes a couple of old unusable windshields, makes practice cuts on them untill he is comfortable with the process. I believe he uses the score and break method, 1/8-1/4 at a time, then grinds it to trim.

Yes, dennis is a shortie, you can see that in the crew pic. we had him sit in dads 53 and sized him up comparing his eye level to seat height and amount of chop. Dads was only 4" front 3" in the rear if I remember correctly.

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Old 05-10-2010, 11:49 AM
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Well, no work getting done now.

I'll be hitting the refresh key every 5 minutes or less.

This is gonna be good.
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Old 05-10-2010, 12:11 PM
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Mom and Colin supervising

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John just had to get in and make vroom vroom noises

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after a half days work. Not bad, but the cutting is the easy part after all.

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Old 05-10-2010, 01:10 PM
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Marty, do you guys keep John in Panel truck and bring him out for the hard stuff???

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Old 05-10-2010, 03:04 PM
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Bob, we try to not jet John get in too much trouble, keeping him caged works well.

Dad welding the front post

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original door mis match, this really puts things in perspective

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doggys love trucks, even unfinished

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Dennis fitting filler pieces in the gap in the front

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Things have slowed down some now, the fitup, the care taken in getting good gaps on the filler pieces, making new pieces for filler, but things are steadily moving forward.

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Lookin' good Marty and gang! Keep going!!!
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That is Sweet.

Looks like one hell of a team!!!

Tell Ben we have been wating for him over here
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Old 05-10-2010, 07:44 PM
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Marty, thanks for the updates by the hour. Hope you will continue them until it is done.
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