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Well, this weekend finally got round to the windscreen. Collected support from powder coater on Friday afternoon (had them set up, drilled etc first!) Trial run the screen alignment and had to elongate holes in scuttle by 2 mm to get screen square. Polished screen frame and fitted poppers to screen Dummy fitted screen assembly to check and everything okey dokey. Went for final fitting screen with seal. Couldn't get screen into frame with poppers in place (pop rivet tails in the way). :sorry: Filed rivet tails, still not wide enough. :sorry: Drilled rivet heads out and threw poppers in bin. Cleaned up holes and tapped (M4) just in case for alternative. Tracked down and collected some caravan awning rail, tried to bend to frame profile, screwed that up! :fool: (Any pointers on bending to suit creen frame profile - don't have access to bending kit anymore)! Thinking of fitting remainder to top of screen. Had screen (with copious amounts of washing up liquid) keep sticking to seal and couldn't get it fully seated in frame. :cray: Binned seal! Decided to fill windscreen frame inner with Sikaflex. (After using bolts to plug tapped holes to prevent 'squirt through'. Screen is now in frame and Sikaflex is curing off. Searched E-Bay and came across self tapping turnbuckle fasteners. Will cut the screw thread length on these to fit the screen depth and will also bond in with a dab of Sikaflex. Looking forward to removing the excess Sikaflex after work tomorrow. The wife had a wonderful suggestion 'Why don't they supply a pre-assembled windscreen?' :wacko: With that, she put the kettle on........
