<VV> Windshield storage

Smitty vairologist at cox.net
Mon May 9 16:37:40 EDT 2011


> From: shortle <shortle556 at earthlink.net>
> Subject: <VV> WINDSHIELD STORAGE
> I got lucky and found a good used windshield at a self serve junkyard for 
> my '63 Rampside. This for me will be a "spare" part (not looking forward 
> to the day I might actually need it). What is the safest way for me to 
> store this part? Should it be kept in a vertical position or horizontal? 
> Needless to say, I am hoping to have this item for many birthdays.
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Smitty says.  Not a good idea to store one any way but upright on it's lower 
edge.  I came by a really nice windshield that had been stored "belly down" 
for years on a shelf .  I measured it from point to point across the bottom 
and it was almost 3/4 inch longer than it should have been.  I knew if I 
could even get it in a gasket it wouldn't be right.  I put it in the attic 
standing on one of its points upright (standing tall).  Nailed a couple of 
strips of wood alongside it to keep it from falling, and wrote the dimension 
on a rafter.  Every so often checked to see how it was doing and wrote down 
the new measurement..  After a year and a half I turned it around and stood 
it on the other end.  Total of three years and the dimension was correct. 
Then it was stored on its lower edge.  It will be going into Spike sometime 
this summer.



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