Date:         Sun, 6 Feb 2000 09:22:22 -0500
Reply-To:     McComas_Glenn <mccomas@SHORE.INTERCOM.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         McComas_Glenn <mccomas@SHORE.INTERCOM.NET>
Subject:      rust spot on sliding window opening
Comments: To: albell@UVIC.CA

Since from your e.mail address you appear to be on a campus ---- Talk to
someone in the physical science or engineering labs, and try to scrounge a
tube of Dow Corning high vacuum grease.  This stuff is very inert, quite
harmless to paint....  I brush it around the opening before reinstalling
gasket+glass.  Makes reinstallation a comparative breeze.  In ~30 years
(good heavens!) of following this practice, I've never had any recurring
rust problems.

Glenn McComas, Queenstown, Maryland
87 Vanagon; 69 Baywindow; 87 v.d.p. XJ6; plus some cars that run.

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