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3. 09:13 PM - Re: fsss windsheild (Richard Pike)
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I'm about to attach my windshield and I'm in the process of making a 1/8" plywood
template. When I bought the kit they had not drafted plans for the ss. The
frame of my fsss is similar to the mk iii xtra so if you built an xtra maybe you
can solve some of my problems. I'm assuming that the small windows at the lower
front and the main window are cut as one piece. My frame makes a curve at
the bottom of this small window that the plywood can't make without cracking,
If the Lexon won't make this curve and another at the top of the frame can it
be softened with heat? What is a safe way to apply heat? I've seen the door frames
attached in some mk iii's with pins at the front and in others with piano
hinge at the top, what are the pro's and con's? I'm also assuming that the nose
cone is attached after the windshield is in place.
thanks
Joe
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| Subject: | Re: fsss windsheild |
Every one must be asleep. :-/ Lexan will bend without breaking. It mostly
depends on the thickness if you will be able to bend it. I have bent
60/1000's 90 degrees with the help of a jig. Heat will not help you with
lexan. I am having trouble understanding what the piece that you are
trying to fit looks like. If this doesn't help you, perhaps a picture would
be worth more than words.
Larry
On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 5:35 PM, <mojavjoe@comcast.net> wrote:
> I'm about to attach my windshield and I'm in the process of making a
> 1/8" plywood template. When I bought the kit they had not drafted plans for
> the ss. The frame of my fsss is similar to the mk iii xtra so if you built
> an xtra maybe you can solve some of my problems. I'm assuming that the
> small windows at the lower front and the main window are cut as one piece.
> My frame makes a curve at the bottom of this small window that the plywood
> can't make without cracking, If the Lexon won't make this curve and another
> at the top of the frame can it be softened with heat? What is a safe way to
> apply heat? I've seen the door frames attached in some mk iii's with pins
> at the front and in others with piano hinge at the top, what are the pro's
> and con's? I'm also assuming that the nose cone is attached after the
> windshield is in place.
>
>
> thanks
> Joe
>
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| Subject: | Re: fsss windsheild |
Let me chime in my .02$ here... You can form Lexan in an oven or other heated chamber,
if you make up a form, cover it with old t-shirt material, heat up the
oven and watch closely until you see the Lexan collapse and assume the shape
of the form. That can turn out fairly well, helped my brother make a taller windshield
for his KLR650 that way, using some 1/8" Lexan, and it was acceptable.
Probably 13" X 22".
Had to put a sharp bend in the top of the Lexan windshield of my Anglin J-6 and
there was no way to put it in any sort of oven. Used a space heater until that
portion of the windshield started to sag, and promptly dropped the part needing
to be bent on a coffee table and cranked the rest of it to the appropriate
angle. Turned out pretty good, but it did have some major optical anomalies.
On the first shorty windshield for my MKIII, needed the top to bend over sharply,
I got a friend to help me cold bend the 1/8" Lexan in a big wooden bench vise
that was 3' long, sort of like a sheet metal brake, except made out of wood.
About a 3' width, it was all we could do to manage it, and that was many years
ago. Gird up yer loins, and get a REALLY BIG friend to help you. Mine was old
and skinny...
So you can use heat with Lexan, but don't expect great things unless you get REALLY
lucky. If you can cold bend it, by all means do so.
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Richard Pike
Kolb MKIII N420P (420ldPoops)
Kingsport, TN 3TN0
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