[Public-List] Public-List Digest, Vol 1619, Issue 2

[dan walker]

when i replaced mine i had one that was a little tight and it cracked. i have not changed it out yet since it does not leak. i know this doesn't help if u indeed had the wecond one smaller

--- On Mon, 9/21/09, Mike Lehman <sail_505 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: Mike Lehman <sail_505 at hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Public-List] Public-List Digest, Vol 1619, Issue 2
> To: "Alberg 30 Public List -- open to all" <public-list at lists.alberg30.org>
> Date: Monday, September 21, 2009, 4:01 PM
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> I cannot image what is going on with this. We have replaced
> portlights in many Albergs and never had anything like this
> happen before. It will be interesting to see what others on
> the list have to say. I, for one, am puzzled??? It almost
> makes me think that someone cracked the windows after you
> left? Is that possible?
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> > Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:40:04 -0700
> > From: gwyn at beluga.phys.uvic.ca
> > To: public-list at lists.alberg30.org
> > Subject: Re: [Public-List] Public-List Digest, Vol
> 1619, Issue 2
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> > Hi,
> > 
> > I replaced one of my portlights following the
> instructions at:
> > http://www.alberg30.org/maintenance/HullDeck/Portlights/
> > I used 1/4" acrylic. The first time I did it, I came
> > back a few days later to find the new window had
> cracked.
> > I assumed that I had cut the window slightly too big
> > (it was a snug fit in the hole in the deckhouse)
> > and that it had expanded and cracked.
> > I replaced it again, this time make fairly sure the
> > new window had a 1/8" clearance from the edges of
> > the hole. This one also cracked a few days later.
> > 
> > Has anybody had a similar problem?
> > Should I go back to a 3/16" thick window?
> > Switch to Lexan?
> > Bigger clearance around the window?
> > 
> > Stephen
> > Quasar #495
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