Barry,
Yes, it's true.
Ok, I have been lurking for to long.
Short introduction, I'm from Belgium but live in the US since 90.
In the early 70's, I worked for a couple years in the Triumph assembly plant
in Mechelen (Malines called in most TR books)
I was in the publicity department (still have some nice press release
pictures, contact me of list for scans), but we spent a lot of time in the
assembly area's with visitors and magazine writers.
What the man told you about a rubber mallet was common practice at the time
with these windshields, and not only at Triumph, but by most car
manufacturers.
Still today, if I have to put a windshield in a TR or a Porsche 911, I use a
rubber mallet, or the palm of my hand (take wedding band off), and as long
as you know how to do it, you wont break any.
Since in doing this reply, another question;
Are there any other Belgian TR nuts on this list ?
I was one of the first TR Register, Belgium group, members after we started
this in 1979.
Fredd
(certified TR nut since 1969)
Barry wrote :
>He said that he was
>told that two people installed them and that while one person used the
>equivalent rope on the inside, another person "hammered" on the outside
>with what was described as an extremely large rubber mallet, to help seat
>the windscreen as the rubber was secured. This seemed a brutal way to do
>it, but not unlikely having read other stories of how things were assembled
>"before robots" as the idea was to do it quickly, not necessarily the
>neatest, most careful way
>What say you, John Mac-? Any truth to the story? I would think if true,
>that more than a few windscreen would have ended up, shall we say, unusable
>:-)
>
>Barry Schwartz (San Diego) bschwart@pacbell.net
>
>72 FI, V6 Spitfire (daily driver)
>70 GT6+ (when I don't drive the Spit)
>70 Spitfire (long term project)
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