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Originally Posted by LT7A
Oh yeah, and I think that laminated glass can be cut, but not tempered glass. Maybe you can go to a salvage yard and get a windshield to practice on. I really don't know what the method would be, almost like a tile saw maybe? Abrasive blade and water?
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You made me chuckle here.
Always a good thing, thanks.
I think the idea is to cut one side, then the other, tap it, and slice the lamination with a thin blade.
I could be wrong.
But the plan is to approach a plant glass company and seeing what they charge.
This morning after the hospital and X-rays I popped into my favourite scrap yard/recycling yard.
Needed some pipe to use to extend the MX5 under dash support.
Found nothing that I wanted.
But got a 2.0 meter length of heavy box section that could do the job too, albeit differently.
£10.00 for the steel and this little steel ride on car.
I cannot resist them.
Needs a steering part to be replaced r repaired.
Then straight back home to get some work done.
Later the post man delivered the track rod ends I had ordered last week.
At lunch time I popped out to go see if they could be fitted in under 30 minutes.
Of course they can, just not today.
Jacked up front end, minus wheels, undid top nuts, one wallop each side and the tapers popped loose, Undoing the locking nuts, unscrewed and started to fit the new ends once I clened and copper slipped the threads….. then failure to get one side in.
Eventually tonight after work, cleaned up threads with Tap and Die and job done.
Old vs New
I think the old ones were fully serviceable.
Reassembled.
Just needed to be tightened down.
Tracking is wildly put, so I will disassemble and clean up the nut and adjustment thread and then just set it by eye, another job for the professionals once built.
Time for some food.
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