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Re: Window Glazing

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Subject: Re: Window Glazing
From: "John T. Blair" <jblair1948@cox.net>
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 19:20:39 -0400
At 05:25 PM 9/12/2005 -0500, Lawrence R Zink wrote:

>Wet your knife, and push the putty into place at the same time.  You did 
>take the glazing compound in your hand and roll it into a long strand, 
>right?  Then laid the strand on the mutton of the window. took your putty 
>knife and ran it along at an angle and dipped it into water every few 
>inches?  A pain but easier than silicone and the plastic glazing strip.
>I've done both, and the hardest thing to do is not breaking the glass while 
>pressing in the glazing points.

Thanks to all that responded.

While I was standing in line to pay for the new window glass, I said to my
wife, we probably should have gotten 2 pieces, cause we're going to break
this one. :)

Well managed to get the new glazing points in with OUT breaking the glass.

Yes, I did roll it in my hand and push it into the wood frame.  Just as
I tried to wipe it to smooth it out and trim it up, it would pull and 
tear even wetting it and the putty knife.

The one thing I didn't do was to prime the wood (mutton).  This house was
built in 79 and these are the original windows.  The wood under the glass
was NOT treated with anything that I could see.   I'll do that next time.

Maybe just a bad day. :)  But if memory servers me, this is always a 
problem.


John


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