----- Original Message -----From: braemar50Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 10:59 PMSubject: Re: [MarcosManiacs] Rear Screens (window)Hello, Real glass would be a structural benefit - I wonder did the build process include a mylar type film between two glass sheets for safety otherwise in an accident you'd have large glass shards coming at you - it's interesting because the original plexi/glass can be copied if intact by a simple 18 gage steel mold bent to accept temperature via placing 1/4 inch plexi/glass using an industrial heat gun that heats about 400 deg F. keeping some distance away and fold to what you want - then let cool - and by hand clamping gently the new form to the steel form and cutting around by hand using a 32 teeth per inch hack saw type blade - the heat gun is about $ 350.00 Canadian dollars.
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Subject: [MarcosManiacs] Rear Screens (window)
To: MarcosManiacs@yahoogroups.com
Received: Tuesday, November 11, 2008, 8:10 PM
I had a crack in my plexiglass rear screen so I recently decided to
get a real glass one . With the lelp of Paul Crocker of the Marcos Club
in England I had 3 made and shipped air freight. They all arrived
unbroken. I plan to keep one as a spare but would like to sell the
other one. My cost was $695.OO per screen(Shipping was expensive but
worth it).
The sceen is in Colorado Springs so shipping from here would have to be
calculated. The screen I put in my car had a couple of small scatches
when the plastic protector was removed. The other may have this also. I
don't plan to remove the plastic.
If anyone is interested let me know. My car is a 1970 3L Volvo.
Bill Black
3V5680
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Re: [MarcosManiacs] Rear Screens (window)
2008-11-13 by Donny Lang
The original Marcos glass rear windows are made of
tempered glass (as are the side windows) - the same as all modern cars sold
from the 1960s through present. Upon severe impact, they completely break into
very small fragments. The front windshield on my 1970 Marcos is also tempered
glass, not laminated as I would have expected. I would be surprised to find
these replacement rear windows to be anything other than tempered
glass.
-Donny