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Anonymous-0

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Want to remove the glass windows from a cab. They are held into the sheet metal with the typical rubber strip. Although the rubber is not dry to the point of cracking, it is not as pliable as it was when new.
Are there any products that can be applied to "rejuvenate" and make the rubber more pliable?
Any suggestions on how to remove the glass without breaking it?
 

Possibly not at all related, but our horse trailer and the windshield on my tractor have a trough (?) in the seal that you remove a band that releases pressure on the seal to remove the glass. Takes a special tool (or about 7 hands connected to the same brain) to install. As far as cleaning/softening, vegetable (cooking) oil does pretty good.


Dave
 
Look for the word "tempered" etched somewhere on the glass. If yes, your in luck. On a warm day place your feet flat near a inside corner and GENTLY push. Move your feet as the rubber releases the glass.
 
Mine doesn't have the removable strip. When the weather worms up I'll try a few applications of vegetable oil.

Thanks,
K-Mo
 
(quoted from post at 07:05:30 02/23/10) Mine doesn't have the removable strip. When the weather worms up I'll try a few applications of vegetable oil.

Thanks,
K-Mo
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Don't think that's gonna solve your problem... There are tools (which I haven't been able to find at joe blow websites) to do this. Maybe you have a vocational school nearby with an auto body shop?


Dave
 
Dad and I put a new windshield in a Massey combine once. That one had a narrow strip that I didn't even know about,built into the large strip. The tool that he had was just a bent wire looking thing. Looped all the way around and was bent in an L shape,had a wooden handle. I don't know where he got it. He was a school bus mechanic and had it in his tool box. You just threaded that little narrow strip through the tool,lubed it up a little with petroleum jelly,then ran that thing around to take the strip out or put it back in. Real quick process. Just about like a zipper.
 
use dish soap and water put the glass into the rubber take some really strong cord something like nylon wrap it around outside grove twice take small brush put abundant coats off soapy water around rubber have someone hold window up to window frame hole after you throw the end of string through. then while helper is lightly pushing glass you pull string and rubber will pull through keep it wet and soapy if string goes around once and you miss a spot no problem cause you wrapped string around it twice some times i use a mall rubber mallet to snug it up i hope this had made sense for you good luck al
 
I removed a window with this type of rubber strip (without locking spline strip) by using the back end of a bunch of spoons and forks (which happened to be a nice, rounded pattern with no sharp edges) as "tire irons" - once a large enough section of the window was pried loose, the whole thing came out.
 
(quoted from post at 20:52:22 02/23/10) Want to remove the glass? Run into a tree branch, it comes out real quick. Been ther-done that. LOL
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Beat me to it....... Popped mine out so neat and kinda in slow motion so I could catch it. That's when I found out there is a tool for that little strip. At the stopping point of the joyride (sliding down a hill with a wagon behind me) that led up to this lesson, I had plenty of lubrication in my shorts to be able to put things back together :oops:

Dave
 
silicone will slick it up the best that what we used when I worked for the glass company. Now do you just have a molded rubber surround or is it the rope seal the guys talked about with a center rubber strip inside the large rubber surround?
 
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