[tcb] Re: Sigla sliding windows

  • From: sammie smith <bugcollections@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 17:02:23 -0800 (PST)

James:  Do some looking on the Samba.  There is a thread on there somewhere.  
The latches do not go through the window.  They are attached to the metal frame 
on the bottom that the window fits in and the entire metal channel and the 
window slide back and forth.  The channel that they slide in is supposed to be 
special for the Sigla glass.  I have never looked real close at one to see the 
actual difference but I have had some of the sliders with latches attached 
before in my parts stash, which I sold to Terry Richburg.  I know he has some 
of the windows.  Maybe he has one assembled that you could look at; or a 
research on the Samba or a call to the tech guys at Wolfsburg West could answer 
your question.
 
Bottom line:  It sounds like you have the wrong bottom felt for the Sigla 
glass.  It is different than the regular non-sigla felt channels.

--- On Mon, 1/24/11, James Dwan <james_dwan_2000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


From: James Dwan <james_dwan_2000@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [tcb] Sigla sliding windows
To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Monday, January 24, 2011, 6:20 PM






So I have this 1959 Bus and the sliding windows are Sigla but they have a metal 
channel on the bottom and no holes for the window latches. The latches 
evidently attach to a horizontal lip.
The windows don't move because they were installed with the felt channel on the 
bottom and the windows my guess is that only the glass without the metal 
channel needs the felt and mine do not and the metal slides over the metal 
channel.

I am wondering if these windows were original to this Bus and where I can find 
latches for it anyway. The only ones I have seen go through the glass. I 
thought all Sigla sliders were like that. What gives? 

James


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