| Window Seals and re- refurbishment [message #369224] |
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Husker92592
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I have seen back and forth on refurbishing and re- sealing the widows in our coaches. has anyone put a list together or a bill of materials all in one location? I am getting into the window removal and it is ridiculous to take them out measure order wait then reinstall and the coach is open to air. Every suppler I talk to wants a linear footage. I find it hard to believe we don't know what each window takes or there i a kit available.
Any help is appreciated, i want to do this all at one time.
thanks
Grant
1974 GMC Sequoia 26'
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| Re: Window Seals and re- refurbishment [message #369229 is a reply to message #369224] |
Wed, 23 March 2022 15:07  |
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Richard RV
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Grant,
It would be helpful to have the required measurements for window rubber replacement, but other than the cockpit windows I've never seen a kit or measurements. Any measurements would have to indicate GMC models and years. For the later model years I think there are five or six different windows, door/kitchen window also came in fixed glass and operable sash.
It'd be easy to measure the window rubbers in place. Tape a string to a chosen starting point and walk the string around following the rubber, then measure the string. The rubber is sold by the foot and it's most certainly counterproductive trying to be precise and end up a little short.
Removing a single window from the coach, disassembling the window and removing the rubber, cleaning up the aluminum, priming and painting the aluminum, replacing all of the rubber and reinstalling a single window is far from a single day affair. It's more time efficient to do all of the windows at the same time. If the main concern is weather and not hooligans, I'd just tape up some plastic.
Richard
'77 Birchaven TZE...777;
'76 Palm Beach under construction;
‘76 Edgemont waiting its turn
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| Re: Window Seals and re- refurbishment [message #369234 is a reply to message #369224] |
Wed, 23 March 2022 18:13 |
JohnL455
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As far as living area windows, not cockpit or rear flat windows, my understanding is the press in rubber is purely cosmetic and has nothing to do with sealing or leaks. So don’t buy the press in rubber to solve leaks.
Cinnabar offers to piece in 1-2” pieces to fix the “shrinkage” gap issues and does not glue it to the existing rubber. This is a cheaper quick fix for the shrinkage gaps I opted for on some side windows on 77.
John Lebetski
Woodstock, IL
77 Eleganza II
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| [GMCnet] Re: Window Seals and re- refurbishment [message #369236 is a reply to message #369234] |
Wed, 23 March 2022 22:08 |
Dave Stragand
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Granted, the small and large rubber strips do not do much for sealing leaks, but those strips are highly essential in holding the glass in place! (Especially if only held in with the original adhesive) It's not just cosmetic, though any gaps in it are.
-Dave
1978 Transmode near Pittsburgh
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Subject: [GMCnet] Re: Window Seals and re- refurbishment
As far as living area windows, not cockpit or rear flat windows, my understanding is the press in rubber is purely cosmetic and has nothing to do with
sealing or leaks. So don’t buy the press in rubber to solve leaks.
Cinnabar offers to piece in 1-2” pieces to fix the “shrinkage” gap issues and does not glue it to the existing rubber. This is a cheaper quick
fix for the shrinkage gaps I opted for on some side windows on 77.
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John Lebetski
Woodstock, IL
77 Eleganza II
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| [GMCnet] Re: Window Seals and re- refurbishment [message #369238 is a reply to message #369236] |
Thu, 24 March 2022 00:03 |
jimk
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Just call and ask for Nick at our shop as we sell ALL the window sealing
parts.
On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 8:08 PM Dave Stragand wrote:
> Granted, the small and large rubber strips do not do much for sealing
> leaks, but those strips are highly essential in holding the glass in place!
> (Especially if only held in with the original adhesive) It's not just
> cosmetic, though any gaps in it are.
>
> -Dave
>
> 1978 Transmode near Pittsburgh
> ________________________________
> From: John R.Lebetski
> Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2022 7:13 PM
> To: gmclist@list.gmcnet.org
> Subject: [GMCnet] Re: Window Seals and re- refurbishment
>
> As far as living area windows, not cockpit or rear flat windows, my
> understanding is the press in rubber is purely cosmetic and has nothing to
> do with
> sealing or leaks. So don’t buy the press in rubber to solve leaks.
> Cinnabar offers to piece in 1-2” pieces to fix the “shrinkage” gap issues
> and does not glue it to the existing rubber. This is a cheaper quick
> fix for the shrinkage gaps I opted for on some side windows on 77.
> --
> John Lebetski
> Woodstock, IL
> 77 Eleganza II
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