zetec7 wrote:
I've just sent Jack an email about this...
I appreciate he's in the business of selling entire windshield kits, so I'm not sure if he'd be willing to sell me a length of seal material on its own. I don't want to put him in an awkward spot! We'll see!
Good heavens, it wouldn't put me in an awkward spot--I'm happy to sell bits of things used in kits, and when I've learned about something available cheaper elsewhere*, I'm happy to tell everybody.
Our channel is 3/8” inside, and the best thing (that I’ve found—there may be something better) is a black sticky and stretchy tape that the glass shop will have, that’s used in the channel at the bottom of roll up car windows to hold the glass in place. I think that’s mentioned on the KineticVehicles.com web site. For a half inch ID channel, I don’t know. Maybe doubling up the tape?
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benny_toe wrote:
,Jack McCornack has a write up on installing the glass on his Kinetic Vehicles web site. Under the Complete Windshield tab is a write up on using setting tape and his bottom trim piece.
The shop that cut my glass threw in a length of setting tape and it worked great. A little daunting at first but worked out fine.
What Benny Toe said. Right, it's called setting tape. I forgot. [END EDIT]
*Which happens a lot. Sometimes I'll find something cool but I can't afford to stock it (like I can't get a break that will cover shipping, or each Locost needs two of them and I'd need to buy 500 of them to get a discount) so I just pass along info on the best source I've found so you can get it yourself--e.g. Fay Curtis for clamshell fenders, Rock Auto for ball joints for UCAs...