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What is used to bed the glass in the channel of the windshield frame? Same stuff as uses on Model A?
This is a 26/27 roadster

Bedding tape, good auto glass installers have it or can get it.

Got it
I read your earlier posts on this

Original windscreen glasses fitted into a brass channel, which in turn fitted into the windscreen frame. This worked well in the brass frames of the early cars. When steel frames were introduced things changed. Water which used to get past the glass and the brass channel ended up in the steel frame, with obvious results. In our colonial bodied cars the windscreen glass was cushioned in a bedding channel not unlike hidem binding, with the rounded edge showing on the inside and outside of the glass. The same thing happened. Water got into the steel frame and the inevitable rust out means very few bottom frames survived.
There is a better way, which may be unacceptable to the purists. Have your windscreen shop used bedding tape AND the black mastic they use, to fill any void between the glass and the frame. That way water is excluded and your steel frame will not suffer in the same way.
You blokes are fortunate in being able to buy replacement windscreen frames for factory T's. We cannot do that, as there are multiple different screens across the range of different bodies built by Australian agents, so we have to protect whatever we can lay our hands on.

Allan from down under.