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Wayne G. O'Shea

removing undamaged rebel windscreen

Post by Wayne G. O'Shea » Sat Feb 18, 2012 10:52 am

Is the top strip alum still....or fiberglass as well? Either way it would be
easiest for reinstallation if it was removed...although if someone holds it
up for you with a couple putty knives, or similar, you could take the tape
in it's full 1" width and put it on the windshields top edge and roll it
under and over the windshield..have the retainer held up and slide the
windshield into place. Then apply the tape to sides and bottom edges and
reinstall the main retainer.

Wayne

----- Original Message -----
From: "wrightdg" <wrightdg@davincibb.net>
To: "rebel builders" <rebel-builders@dcsol.com>
Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 9:27 AM
Subject: Re: removing undamaged rebel windscreen

Yes, I drilled off the fibreglass retainer which wraps all the way
around except at the top.

On Thu, 2005-25-08 at 23:22 -0400, Wayne G. O'Shea wrote:
Nope I'm just home for, hopefully only, 3 days to get my older daughter
moved into her TO apartment and clean up some bills. I am supposed to be
back in Temagami to represent COPA on Monday for a land use/access
meeting
with the MNR...but one of my "best" customers bent a gear leg to 75
degrees
from straight this morning and I've spent all afternoon (2 to 6pm) and
7:30
'till 11pm tonight travelling, removing, travelling and building a
complete
gear assembly. Tomorrow it's travel, replace and hopefully fly it home
to
also fix (some other time) the buckled lower corner wrap on the same
side.
Glad it was "such a smooth landing I was patting myself on the back and
don't know why this happened" type of landing.... or I'd be into wing
and
bent prop work as well. Thanks goodness Brad wanted to trade parts for
parts
a couple months ago and I had spares gear legs on hand. Loss of today to
attend to other things may have me home a tad longer than I had hoped.
Once
gone again I will be coming home sporadically until mid October, as
still
lots to get taken care of before freeze up.

As for the retainer, I will try to look at some pictures thru the
assembly
process to get my mind straight on what was there and what order I put
that
one in with since it has the fiberglass retainer. I am assuming if you
didn't remove the top retainer that you drilled off the lower retainer??

Wayne

----- Original Message -----
From: "wrightdg" <wrightdg@davincibb.net>
To: "rebel builders" <rebel-builders@dcsol.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 9:35 PM
Subject: Re: removing undamaged rebel windscreen

Thanks for all the comments Wayne on this and other subjects and
welcome
back to the group. Summer must be over or something.



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wrightdg

removing undamaged rebel windscreen

Post by wrightdg » Sat Feb 18, 2012 10:58 am

Interesting idea. Thanks Wayne. I'll have a look at this before I
decide.

On Fri, 2005-26-08 at 11:19 -0400, Wayne G. O'Shea wrote:
Is the top strip alum still....or fiberglass as well? Either way it would be
easiest for reinstallation if it was removed...although if someone holds it
up for you with a couple putty knives, or similar, you could take the tape
in it's full 1" width and put it on the windshields top edge and roll it
under and over the windshield..have the retainer held up and slide the
windshield into place. Then apply the tape to sides and bottom edges and
reinstall the main retainer.

Wayne

----- Original Message -----
From: "wrightdg" <wrightdg@davincibb.net>
To: "rebel builders" <rebel-builders@dcsol.com>
Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 9:27 AM
Subject: Re: removing undamaged rebel windscreen

Yes, I drilled off the fibreglass retainer which wraps all the way
around except at the top.

On Thu, 2005-25-08 at 23:22 -0400, Wayne G. O'Shea wrote:
Nope I'm just home for, hopefully only, 3 days to get my older daughter
moved into her TO apartment and clean up some bills. I am supposed to be
back in Temagami to represent COPA on Monday for a land use/access
meeting
with the MNR...but one of my "best" customers bent a gear leg to 75
degrees
from straight this morning and I've spent all afternoon (2 to 6pm) and
7:30
'till 11pm tonight travelling, removing, travelling and building a
complete
gear assembly. Tomorrow it's travel, replace and hopefully fly it home
to
also fix (some other time) the buckled lower corner wrap on the same
side.
Glad it was "such a smooth landing I was patting myself on the back and
don't know why this happened" type of landing.... or I'd be into wing
and
bent prop work as well. Thanks goodness Brad wanted to trade parts for
parts
a couple months ago and I had spares gear legs on hand. Loss of today to
attend to other things may have me home a tad longer than I had hoped.
Once
gone again I will be coming home sporadically until mid October, as
still
lots to get taken care of before freeze up.

As for the retainer, I will try to look at some pictures thru the
assembly
process to get my mind straight on what was there and what order I put
that
one in with since it has the fiberglass retainer. I am assuming if you
didn't remove the top retainer that you drilled off the lower retainer??

Wayne

----- Original Message -----
From: "wrightdg" <wrightdg@davincibb.net>
To: "rebel builders" <rebel-builders@dcsol.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 9:35 PM
Subject: Re: removing undamaged rebel windscreen

welcome



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