Installing right rear window
TLDR
- Installed right rear window
Details
I installed the right rear window today.
With the experience from the left window, the right one felt faster although still very unpleasant due to the dust.
Cutting and sanding
- Place the window on the frame, trace the outline with a sharpie.
- Rough cut around the outline
- More accurate cut on the outline.
- Place the window on frame again, and use my “sharpie+tracer” combo pen to trace the outline again. Now I have the window outline 2mm shrank from the canopy frame.
- Rough cut
- Sand to exact shape
Taping and Gluing
Not much to explain here, I spent quite some time to tape around the window and canopy both in and out.
Then applied the sika activator, primer and glue, and placed the window to its final position and secured with wingnut clecos.
After a day or so, I removed the wingnut and filled in the groove between the window edge and canopy frame with more Sika 295. This time it’s a little bit rough, I think I will need to sand it a little to make it perfectly smooth before painting.
