[tcb] Re: Question about glass
- From: "Denis Dodson" <coocoo@xxxxxxx>
- To: <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2009 12:35:05 -0600
We rode in one in Jamaica. It was a taxi and it broke down in the mountains.
The driver struggled it to a guy's house in the jungle and they tore out the
rear axle and trans axle with the wheels and tires still attached and then left
to get parts. Jan and I walked to the police station and got a ride out.
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Gerald Livingston
Sent: Saturday, December 05, 2009 12:20 PM
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Subject: [tcb] Re: Question about glass
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On Sat, 5 Dec 2009 09:34:28 -0800 (PST)
James Dwan <james_dwan_2000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I was walking around East Berlin in '89 and it was just creepy to see
> only one kind of car in the whole city. Parking lots full of
> identical cars in only 4 different colors. I remember seeing a photo
> in Stars & Stripes of one that was thrown into a dumpster a couple of
> years later. When they broke down people just left them on the side
> of the autobahn
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> --- On Fri, 12/4/09, Will <evil.scientist.boo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> From: Will <evil.scientist.boo@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [tcb] Re: Question about glass
> To: "tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Friday, December 4, 2009, 3:45 PM
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> I will just buy 10 of them and swap parts.
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> Yes I have heard that too about the organic components. They were
> aircooled however and they smoked worse than Selma Diamond.
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> James Dwan wrote:
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> Good luck getting parts...oh I forgot wasn't the suspension made of
> wood and leather?
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> --- On Fri, 12/4/09, Will <evil.scientist.boo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> From: Will <evil.scientist.boo@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [tcb] Re: Question about glass
> To: "tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Friday, December 4, 2009, 3:29 PM
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> I'm selling everything and buying a Trabant.
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> From: James Dwan <james_dwan_2000@xxxxxxxxx>
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> Sent: Fri, Dec 4, 2009 9:02 am
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> Subject: [tcb] Re: Question about glass
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> So the latch/track would be different because of the holes in the
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> Interesting. I guess the slider track would be different for Sigla or
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> From: sammie smith <bugcollections@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Subject: [tcb] Re: Question about glass
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> Date: Friday, December 4, 2009, 8:38 AM
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> Hmm! I am not an expert on VW glass: But, there was a period around
> 58-61 or so that VW put laminate glass in the side windows of the
> Type II. This was apparently made by Sigla glass. Most VWs, busses
> included, have tempered glass (non-sigla) including the windshield
> for all markets other than the US where tempered glass for
> windshields is not legal. For whatever reason for some busses for
> some short period of time VW put laminate (non-tempered) glass in the
> side windows. For the driver and passenger door sliding glass with
> non-tempered laminate glass there are no holes cut through the
> laminate for the slider latch. The slider is different. It fits up
> beside the glass, not through it, and is mounted on a slider bar that
> fits under the window. Maybe Terry or Will can chime in. I know
> Terry has at least one bus with the Sigla slider glass because I sold
> him one slider latch mounted on the slider bar for his bus. There
> are also several threads on the Samba re: the Sigla glass and the
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> Apparently you cannot drill a hole through laminate glass and that is
> the reason for the uniques type of catch arrangement on these
> windows. Personally I am a fan of tempered glass and have never
> understood the US's rationale for the requirement of laminate glass.
> I think the tempered is much safer. And apparently the rest of the
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> From: James Dwan <james_dwan_2000@xxxxxxxxx>
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> Subject: [tcb] Question about glass
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> Date: Thursday, December 3, 2009, 5:39 PM
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> Sigla made glass not slider tracks right? I have found an ad that
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> Is there such a thing? I don't need a track I need the Sigla glass.
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