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Re: replacing hardtop rear window

To: <spritenut@comcast.net>, <SDOliner@aol.com>
Subject: Re: replacing hardtop rear window
From: "Chris King" <cbking@alum.rpi.edu>
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 18:20:05 -0800
Any brand of Polycarbonate will work. LEXAN (GE Plastics) is one such
brand, Makrolon (by Bayer Plastics) is another.
 
Plexiglass is actually a name brand for acrylic sheet. Polycarbonate is
much togher than acrylic, but then that toughness comes at a cost.
 
-=Chris

<-----Original Message----->

                 From: Frank Clarici
Sent: 3/6/2006 6:28:36 PM
To: SDOliner@aol.com
Cc: spridgets@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: replacing hardtop rear window 

Be sure to use LEXAN (brand) plexiglass, it is bendable and will not
crack. 
Costs more but it's worth it. Do watch which side faces the sun as it is
UV sensitive. It's labeled. 
A heat gun or propane torch from a distance helps keep the curve in 
check. I have done this before. Remember you are warming plastic not 
melting metal when you torch the plexi. 


-- 
Frank Clarici 
Toms River, NJ 




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