I must confess I don't do much rust repair down here in Florida, and windshield areas are tricky. I concede that the fiberglass POR method is most likely better for small and restricted access areas like the windshield. Thanks for sharing your techniques Frank.
-----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of Frank Condelli Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 7:01 AM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Re: Windshield Frame Rust In a message dated 13/08/2009 4:40:03 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, LISTSERV@GERRY.VANAGON.COM writes: MIG welder, right here in the shop, use it almost every day, no problem. BUT grinding down the welds in the area of the windshield corners where NEW metal is needed is not fun and does not work as well as the POR-15 and Fiberglas method. So you just welded in a small quarter sized piece of NEW metal to fill in the missing metal in the corner of the windshield frame. The heat from welding just burned off all the paint and undercoating on the inside of the frame where you can't see. What do you do about that now ? Well, I know how most deal with it, they forget about it until the customer is back with rust bubbling out from under the windshield rubber. NOW what do you do ? Fix it for free, make him pay again ? My method has no come backs, not yet anyways. Maybe before I retire I'll see one. |
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