windscreen

[yellowbelly]

This has been raised before, but I wonder what the current state of play is with regards to replacement screens.

There has been mention of a template from which a replacement screen can be cut. My understanding is that glass suppliers are reluctant to cut screens, both because of the breakage rate, and because they don't like to remove the kite marks.

There is apparently a firm in Stoke on Trent which supplies glass to JCB and which has cut replacement pieces for aeroscreens.

Is there any point in investigating the commission of a batch of screens?

[listerjp2]

This has been raised before, but I wonder what the current state of play is with regards to replacement screens.

There has been mention of a template from which a replacement screen can be cut. My understanding is that glass suppliers are reluctant to cut screens, both because of the breakage rate, and because they don't like to remove the kite marks.

There is apparently a firm in Stoke on Trent which supplies glass to JCB and which has cut replacement pieces for aeroscreens.

Is there any point in investigating the commission of a batch of screens?

National Windscreens cut and fit flat laminated safety glass and polycarbonate on-site.

https://www.nationalwindscreens.co.uk

Regards

Adrian

[dcunn]

Assuming you mean windscreens for a Roadster there are (were) three slightly different sizes of glass and
who knows which one is yours ?

As Adrian says above, and I believe flat screen glass is not a problem to source.

[yellowbelly]

That's good to know. National Windscreens recently did an excellent, and very swift, repair to a chip on one of our cars.

[TVRFan]

Mk1 roadsters (and Berlinettas?) used simple shop window glass (6.5mm laminated). I cut out a template in cardboard and took it to a local glass merchant, explained it was for a kit car, and he said "right, you need plastic laminate shockproof grade <something>" as I remember. Took a day or two to cut, and it's sealed in with standard windscreen black silicone. Not even that expensive. I did put in a couple of packers to separate it from the steel, don't know if I needed to do that.

[listerjp2]

Mk1 roadsters (and Berlinettas?) used simple shop window glass (6.5mm laminated). I cut out a template in cardboard and took it to a local glass merchant, explained it was for a kit car, and he said "right, you need plastic laminate shockproof grade <something>" as I remember. Took a day or two to cut, and it's sealed in with standard windscreen black silicone. Not even that expensive. I did put in a couple of packers to separate it from the steel, don't know if I needed to do that.

Hiya regards the packing, the manual suggests that you use old style wooden pegs on both sides to keep the screen from touching the metal frame. I did this and it worked well. I also used some rope tied under the screen and to the top of the frame while the silicone dried.

Adrian

[andyf]

OMG just had a flash back to fitting my windscreen 37 years ago!