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Re: Window mechanism

To: Bricklin@autox.team.net, Lbc302@aol.com
Subject: Re: Window mechanism
From: "K M" <symbiotic@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 00:06:01 PDT
It really depends on what you want to accomplish.  The problem, as best 
as I can determine, is essentially rolling an arched window up an arched 
door with a straight line regulator.  The reason the alternative method 
(Tanner and Hoffman) works is likely because it does not grab as much 
window, grabs it lower and what it does grab is grabbed flexibly.  The 
rest of the needed "give" is a combination of the tolerances in the 
window channels, the flex in the rollers and the roller channel, and the 
angle that the window is set in the u shaped joint.  I frankly think 
that the issue is really the design of the door and the glass vis a vis 
the fact that regulators were meant to go straight up and down or to 
arch in a much more gradual curve.  Just imagine the angle that the base 
of the window is at when it is all the way down compared to all the way 
up (or, when you have the window out, just look at the curve of it for 
an approximation).  Good luck in a search for a different method, but 
without much re-engineering of the basic system, the search may be 
fruitless.  Of course, YMMV. Kim
 
>George and Kim,Thanks for the advice,But there has to be a better way 
than the
>Tanner method,I am going to go around,and see if something,from GM,Ford 
or
>Mopar,will work on the bricklin for a window regulator,IF I do find 
something
>I will
>definely post it on these pages.Or if anybody knows of  a window 
regulator
>that might possibility work,please let us know.
>
>Claude
>vin#1136&1024
>PS.See my "B"on the Brick home page member section.
>



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