Straightened a windshield frame using maple blocks and key stock. Not "T" but similar.
Maybe this looks easier than it is but it did work. There is some clean-up yet to do.
Rich
Richard that looks AWESOME!! That piece you started with in your picture looks like scrap metal to me. Lol, but then in your last pic it's like "Holy smokes a windshield!!"
Thanks Seth. I mentioned key stock but didn't show it. It helped.
Richard you must have the patience of Job! good job
Richard you must have the patience of Job! good job
Richard, that's restoration, not parts changing. I wish more people had the patience to fix the parts instead of throwing them away and finding better. Im a firm believer of "fix what you have" Good job
Yesterday ,I made a battery charger for our 1912 who has a starter now. I use the diagram from John Regan in MTFCA Magazine.
Toon
I guess while I'm on this subject I should show the whole windshield. I heated the stanchions and bent them straighter
and then ground a shaft to fit inside the channel for finishing the straightening. The car being a Maxwell is harder to
find a good windshield. I have another windshield that is worse.
I heated the stanchions and bent them straighter and then ground a shaft to fit inside the channel for finishing the straightening. The car being a Maxwell is harder to find a good windshield. I have one that is worse.
Excuse the repetition.
scavenged model t parts from new england woods
Richard, that is an incredible salvage of what appeared to be junk! Keep us posted on your progress, especially interested in what you use as the glass channel in case I decide to use my windshield.
Howard Dennis
Howard, fortunately all but one piece of channel is there. I will use a piece from a T frame. I hope the glass boys can make it work.
Rich
Also, Howard, I found the top bow brackets for the top of the windshield posts at a swap meet this Spring. They were in a box of Model T parts and had been sandblasted. $10. Thanks to the parts book illustration you sent me many months ago.
Apologies to anyone who doesn't tolerate Maxwell talk.
Very impressive Rich! good work skill's there.
Update: I got the glass in today and thought I would post a couple of pictures. I did use the original channel but it gave me trouble going in. I see why the glass folks don't like it. Otherwise I am happy with it.
Put the fenders on my Buick then realized the running board needed to be installed first.
Richard, since you have both T's and a Maxwell can you tell me if I can use T glass channel to put glass in my Maxwell? I'm missing all my channel so don't even know what it looks like. What T would I order it for?
Howard Dennis
Howard, the channel in the Maxwell is the same as in a T. It is nickel plated brass. The only one that might work is a 1923-25. However the glass is a little shorter on the T upper half. T upper glass is about 35 5/8 wide. Lower is 37 1/4. My Maxwell was 36 1/16 wide on both halves. Also mine was 8 3/4 high on both pieces while my other frame is uneven. 9 3/4 and 7 3/4 approx. You would have to measure your frames to see. T glass is 9 5/8 on both. It might be that the channel is available in other lengths.
All this being said and the fact that the channel is difficult to install, I would suggest letting the glass shop use it's favorite rubber setting channel. They are used to it and there is less chance in breaking the glass.
Rich
well dang it richard, i thought you were building a 14 touring! now max has moved in!
nice job, i forgot to add
Clayton, the Maxwell often takes a back seat to the T projects. It's nice to have a choice of what to work on. Also it's more rewarding pounding on sheetmetal than pounding on glass.
Rich
Funny you should mention the size differences in the frames. I had always assumed mine were the same sizes when they were in the parts pile and wondered how I'd seal the split between them. When I finally got around to actually assembling them I found out the top glass overlapped the bottom so no seal is needed.
Howard Dennis
Richard,
As far as I'm concerned, you can talk Maxwells as much as you want.
Ps. Your steering wheel appears to be on the wrong side of the car, it must be one of those modern Maxwells.
Eric Hylen,
'08 LC and a few Model Ts