[alberg30] Window Replacement (was Current thinking on bedding compunds?)

[Forhan, Thomas]

From: "Forhan, Thomas" <Thomas.Forhan at mail.house.gov>

Lee et al, 

I am going with 3/16 lexan, which the local plastic distributor said was
several times stronger than the equivalent plexiglass that comes stock. A
comment in the Maintenance Handbook-thanks George- suggests that 1/4 lexan
would already be stronger than the cabin sides. Half inch would seem like
massive overkill, and directly bolting them to the cabin sides would really
be hard to pull off and still keep the lines, both because of the mounting
and the tremendous thickness.

Have you ever seen a Morgan Classic 300? It was the old Charlie Morgan
designed, CCA type Morgan 30, which had nice, decent lines. The 300 was
"updated" with plexi-lexan-whatever windows, externally mounted, and it was
ugly (IMHO). Careful what you do here.

My frames are in pretty nice shape, so I haven't even thought about
replacing them. If I was outfitting Calliope for round the capes duty, I
think the ideal would be to use 1/4 or 5/16th lexan, and have flat bronze
plate cut for replacement frames, but, like stainless, it would not be
cheap. 

So should I use 4200 for the ports as well, with the existing frames..?

Tom F.


	-----Original Message-----
	From:	FINNUS505 at aol.com [SMTP:FINNUS505 at aol.com]
	Sent:	Thursday, April 15, 1999 3:20 PM
	To:	alberg30 at onelist.com
	Subject:	[alberg30] Re: Current thinking on bedding compunds?

	From: FINNUS505 at aol.com

	Hi Thom,
	i like 5200, regardless of difficulty in removing it, but that's
just me.

	Are you replacing the windows exactly as they were originaly
designed, or are 
	you doing something different?  Our ports all need replacing, and I
was 
	thinking of going with 1/2 " lexan, oversize, and bolting them to
the cabin 
	sides, and doing away with the aluminum frames.
	What do you and the gang think?
	Lee
	Stargazer #255

	
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