Thank you ,I fitted my screen on my vitesse this afternoon, you gave me confident to try myself, I left the rubber outside in the hot sunshine to soften it and used silicon spray instead of soapy water, just 25 minutes and all done ,thank you once again
I love your vids, they remind me of my youth when i did everything you do, love it. BUT i think the joint of the rubber should be at the top, might be wrong, but ive only been wrong once in my life and thats when i thougjt i was wrong but i wasnt. Great work wish i was there.
Thank you for this video,I have put a lot of windscreens in to a lot of cars,I use washing up liquid on the rubber and use a wire or a cord but a bit thinner than the one you use.You have done a very good job on the car and the carpet looks great.Milo
Thanks Milo. That was my first restoration and I improvised a lot. I am restoring couple more cars now and I am trying to do them properly. You are right a thinner cord will work better, this is just what I had in hand at that time :)
I just bought yesterday a 1971 Spitfire MK4, because watching your videos gave me some inspiration man, I'm from Miami FL, US...keep the videos coming, they will be like tutorials for me hahahaha. Good luck man, the car is looking good so far
That is GREAT! I am always exited when I hear I inspired somebody to restore a car, because bringing a classic back on the road is like saving somebody's life for me. Thank you so much for considering my videos as tutorials, but keep your eyes open for other opinions and ways of doing the things right. I am not a professional and most probably there are better tutorials out there. Good luck with the restoration. I'd love to see Miami, don't you need a helper? LOL
+Elin Yakov Hahahaha, what i really would appreciate is if there were any way for me to contact you for any tips or questions because you know that any help would mean a lot and more because I'm not from Europe hahahahhaa, and I'll be thankful cause there are things that you know that maybe I don't.
Absolutely! My email is ecibg@yahoo.com Just put a big subject SPITFIRE or something like that, because I am getting a lot of spam lately and I might miss your email. You can also find me in facebook same name as my channel here. It is my personal facebook, not related to restorations etc. but I would be happy to have one more triumph fan in my friends list and hopefully I will be able to follow your progress too. It will be great pleasure to share my experience! Good luck!
No worries. Looking forward to the finished product. I'm still searching for a Spitfire to do up. Got close on one but got sold before I could snap it up.
Looking good Elin! You will probably find that the lock strip in your windscreen will shrink considerably over time. Eventually, you will need a bigger and bigger covering piece at the bottom.
Elin, in the past I have used a length of auto electrical wire to fit the windshield rubber. I think the rough texture of the cord you used was gripping the rubber, therefore making the task a little more difficult. The smoothness of the electrical wire combined with your soap and water solution should make the installation a little easier
I agree, I didn't think about that. I always use cord probably because this was what they used when I first saw that many years ago. Thank you for the idea, I will try that next time.
I'm not back yet, I have two more weeks vacation, but I had raw footage ready to be edited from the couple of weeks before I left. So I managed to edit this part and I have enough for two more videos probably. I hope I will have time to edit those too. Nice to here from you too, Bro!
Oh, WOW! This was very interesting! I am really impressed. I can only imagine how much work and attention to detail is involved in restoring a 600 years old piece of glass. What about thousands of pieces of glass. I loved the puzzling and researching part too. This must be really interesting. A year ago we got a 100 years old sewing machine, which I restored and I found some signs and labels on it that helped me recreate the whole story behind it. I even went and found the dry-cleaning atelier where it was used 45 years ago. Now I am sure you are my brother. One day if I end up in Brooklyn I definitely want to see your studio and meet you Brother!
Hahahhah, I will take that as a compliment :) Golf MK1? I bought one for my Mom years ago, not a big fan. But I used to have two MK2's...... Cars that last forever. The second one I drove until it was unsafe to drive it anymore LOL and I was waiting for it to fall apart so I can abandon it, but I ended up selling it before I left for Canada.... Maybe one day I would do one of them. Not really antique yet, I am now vacationing in Bulgaria where I am from and people are still considering them daily drivers here :)
Hi Elin, thanks again for the great vid. awesome job. at some point did you ever think that it could possibly crack when you were applying the pressure and giving it the love punches? And when you installed the windows, were you just blowing air in the channel? I also like the insulation. What kind did you get?
I didn't think it would crack, I've actually done it couple of times before and it always worked well (hope it stays that way), but I cracked a windshield when removing it from TR6. That is harder actually. So I don't risk it anymore, usually the gasket is garbage anyways so I just cut it. For the door windows I used urethane and that was my cocking gun - it uses compressed air. And the insulation is something like the bubble wrap, but made out of aluminum foil. I don't know the name of it. We use it all the time for the limousines we build and we buy it from home hardware stores
first of all thanks for the video very informative. have one quick question I have a 71 Spitfire that I have bought a brand new windshield for. went to test fit the glass to make sure it was the right one and should the glass overlap the factory pinchweld seam? or should the glass be slightly smaller then the pinch weld seam? because if so my glasses too large thanks for your time
In theory it should be a little smaller than the seam, ideally it should fit inside with about 1/4" gap all over. If it overlaps it will never fit and if you try fitting it it might crack. Check the profile of your rubber gasket, the distance between the groove for the glass and the groove for the metal is what gap allover you are looking for.
There are no silly Q's This is actually a tool to put the locking track in the channel, but I used it for the cord, and for the lock I used the rubber mallet :). I can't really explain it with my poor English, but I will try. Yeah, it looks like a screw driver with a wedge shaped head and opening inside the wedge. The cord is passed through the hole in the wedge and when you put the tool in the channel it opens it and in the mean time it lays the cord inside. I should have shot a closer view on that, but.... Silly me :)
might help if you loop cord top and bottom and pull cord towards centre of screen and into car and when fitting insert use a filler tool …. 37 years of fitting screens
I have a suggestion to make, not to you Elin, but to your viewers. I don't think we're being very fair. The work that goes into these videos, both in the workshop and in the editing should justify around 10% likes to views. Elin is getting less than 1%. If you like a channel enough to subscribe to it and you stay with a project, click " like" at the very start. The comments are all positive so let's get the "likes" up to a decent level.
Thanks, but I am happy there aren't many dislikes and all the comments are positive. This keeps me going and motivates me to work sometimes. I am happy I have all of you to give me the strength to keep doing what am doing and try and improve constantly!
