<VV> Windshield storage

[shortle]

Thanks to all who responded. The general consensus is to store ALL glass vertically. I have made a safe place in 1 of my outbuildings with foam rubber, old blankets, and cardboard. It is off the floor in a non travelled corner behind a desk with a sheet of plywood extended to create a "roof" over it. Again, thanks to all.Now if I could only find a spare Lakewood windshield!!!
Timothy Shortle in Durango Colorado 81301


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>From: "corvairduval at cox.net" <corvairduval at cox.net>
>Sent: May 9, 2011 2:52 PM
>To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
>Subject: Re: <VV> Windshield storage
>
>Smitty has it right, as most of you all did. The object is to support it
>against gravity. Horizontal only works like Bob said, fully supported along
>all of its area.
>
>Vertical is easy. And the least likely to cause bending. 
>
>Remember, glass is a LIQUID! A very viscous liquid. Look at window glass a
>100 years old. Not flat anymore.
>
>All the glass warehouses I have been in store the glass vertical. Enough
>said!
>
>An easy way to store more than one piece, build a frame out of 2x4s sitting
>flat on the floor. Drill holes to hold 1/2" EMT conduit about 1 1/2' tall
>say a couple of inches apart. Cover the conduit with pipe insulation foam.
>Build it as big as you may have glass to store. I built one when in
>business and gave it to a fellow club member to store Corvair glass. Need
>to build another.... 
>
>I do have one constructed entirely out of 2x4s I used to transport glass
>when I moved. Fit the back of a pickup great, but the bulk of the 2x4
>verticals make it not compact storage. But if the 2x4s are free....
>
>
>Frank DuVal
>
>
>  
>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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