Re: [T3] windshields

["Jim Adney" <jadney@vwtype3.org>]

On 21 Aug 2008 at 21:12, Jason wrote:

> actually that website says windshields USED to be tempered prior to being
> laminated.

That's what it says in the Background, but if you read farther down, 
into The Manufacturing Process, step 5 describes the tempering in 
great detail.

The description is so detailed that it makes me wonder if possibly 
modern windshields ARE tempered to some extent, but the Type 3 
windshields I've seen broken certainly didn't look tempered, and our 
96 Taurus's windshield didn't look tempered when a tree limb went 
thru it.

> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Jim Adney <jadney@vwtype3.org> wrote:

> > Here's another web page that gets a LOT of things wrong. For example, it
> > says
> > that windshield glass is tempered (it's not) and later says that it can be
> > cut
> > or drilled after forming, which you could't do to tempered glass. I THINK
> > it
> > has also swapped the thicknesses of the glass and plastic portions. It's
> > interesting that I also found the exact content of this web page copied
> > verbatum on other web sites, so this is a good lesson in being skeptical of
> > internet content.

> > http://www.enotes.com/how-products-encyclopedia/automobile-windshield

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Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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