Nothing is eternal and furthermore such vulnerable part of the car as a windshield. The need for its replacement arises often, and funds for it appear not with such constancy therefore the convenient way of production of a windshield is useful to any motorist.
It is required to you
- - plexiglas 1.5 x 1.05 meters (on eight windshields);
- - paper by the windshield size;
- - pencil;
- - scissors;
- - fret saw;
- - basin with a cover;
- - water;
- - ropes.
Instruction
1. Buy a piece of organic glass in the construction market or in specialized shop. Select the area more, about 1.5 x 1 meters. On the area of such glass is enough for 8 windshields. Thus, this only expense will allow you to save about $140 in comparison with the order of new glass for the car.
2. Get a native windshield. Take paper and make the pattern precisely corresponding to the glass sizes. Now transfer a pattern to the bought plexiglas and cut the necessary piece. By means of the fret saw it becomes in 15 minutes in skillful hands.
3. Put to be boiled on a plate water in a big basin. Hold glass for one of the parties and dip into a basin when water in it begins to boil. Correctly to make a windshield, take it in the boiling water within a minute. Then make a deflection as far as it will allow the bought plexiglas. Keep the bent piece in water within 30 seconds, and then take, controlling safety of a deflection. If the desirable corner of a deflection is not reached, be not upset, a little direct glass makes an impression of "tourist tuning".
4. Repeat these actions with all glass, serially dipping different parts of a windshield into the boiling water. If water is warmed insufficiently up, emergence of hardly noticeable cracks in glass is possible. However taking into account glass thickness and the sizes of cracks, you can be quiet, this defect will not be noticeable.
5. Pull together with ropes the made windshield. It will allow you not to hold it, and it is safe to cook in water within 5-6 minutes. For bigger effect close a basin a cover. Correct inaccuracies of the size in connection with influence of temperature and physical force, having filed glass at the edges. Pull an elastic band on the verge of a windshield. The made windshield about 4 mm thick new and without scratches undoubtedly will please your eye and a purse, insert it into the car and enjoy a trip.