Hi Kerry,
If I
On Fri, 10 May 2002 07:16:18 -0700 (PDT) KerryPinkerton
<pinkertonk@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> Believe it or not, this IS imperial related. Does anyone know when
> they started making curved side glass TEMPERED? I will need some
> curved glass 'cut' for my 61 GeeA Limo project and in spite of
> looking at tons of cars, have not found something that would work.
> My current thinking is to find the correct curve in a windshield and
> try and cut out the size I need. Side glass would be easier however
> but everything I have is tempered....
> kerryp
> Christopher Hoffman <imperial67@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Oneof514@xxxxxxx (Oneof514@xxxxxxx) wrote:
> > Safety glass used in autos, is laminated, layers of plastic and
> glass.
>
> But very, very few cars have ever had laminated rear windows.
> Typically
> laminated glass (two panes of glass sandwiching a clear plastic
> film) is
> used only in the windshield.
>
> Delaminating is a term used to mean anything that separates from
> something
> attached in the same plane, such as a glass window on a plastic
> surrounding
> curtain. The best thing to do when a repairman uses terms one does
> not
> understand, however, is to ask for more explanation...
>
> Safety glass is a term that can also be used to describe
> single-layer glass
> that is tempered in such a way that when it shatters, it does so
> into
> relatively uniform pieces shaped so as not to form dangerous shards.
>
> I have a lingering memory of an accident on a hilly dirt road in
> which my
> mother was driving our old Falcon Squire wagon when I was about 2 or
> 3. The
> road had been freshly "graded," which was the annual Road Dept
> ritual of
> shaving down the crown that formed between the ruts of people's tire
> tracks
> and depositing the resulting loose shale into the ruts for a result
> that
> *appeared* like a level road surface. At the top of one large hill
> was a
> mild curve, and when mom hit it a little too fast, the Falcon
> fishtailed,
> spun out, and rolled over four times, landing upright at the bottom
> of the
> hill. Mother being an early convert to seat belts, we all walked
> away with
> little injury, miraculously. One of few memories of the accident was
> sitting
> in the vinyl seat after the car landed and running my open palm over
> the
> amusing little pieces of glass all over the seat. I did not cut my
> hand, a
> tribute to the above-noted heat-tempering process.
>
> Chris in LA
>
>
>
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