Marcos Maniacs

The regs were different back then. Mine is a 70 3 ltr Volvo LHD originally a 
USA imported into the state of NY before being exported to Edmonton AB, Canada 
and it had the original plexiglass rear screen. When I last replaced it many 
years ago when Marcos was still alive, the replacement from Marcos was a 
plexiglass unit.  The front replacement screen was a Heated laminated glass 
windshield.

Regards
Dwayne

 Quoting martin <martin-bull@...>:

> my glass rear screen is laminated
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Roger 
>   To: MarcosManiacs@yahoogroups.com 
>   Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 4:20 PM
>   Subject: RE: [MarcosManiacs] Rear Screens (window)
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>   For sure the new rear screen will not be plain glass that could break into
> shards.   I believe all 3 litre Volvo powered cars that went to the USA had
> glass rear screens.  I don't think the regulations here in USA allowed them
> to be imported with plastic rear screens.
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>   All the front screens I have ever bought were laminated glass not
> toughened.  
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>   Making a metal former to produce a rear window sounds like hard work!  We
> usually make the former  from GRP by laying up inside an old screen.  It
> really needs to be larger than the finished screen but that is not difficult
> as the extra inch or so does not need to be so accurate. Just extend the old
> screen with some strips of wax bought from your GRP supplier.
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>   It is far simpler to take the former to somewhere that makes
> Perspex/Plexiglass screens in volume. They will have an oven to heat the
> sheet evenly and then it virtually just needs dropping over the former as the
> bends are not that tight.  The former should be temporarily covered with a
> piece of baize (same as billiard table skins). They will have this.  As they
> buy the Perspex/Plexiglass  in volume usually it is cheaper to have them do
> the whole job than it is to buy  a sheet of material.  Trying to bend it with
> a heat gun sounds like a recipe for a wasted sheet of material unless you are
> very lucky!
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>   Roger Andreason
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