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Yes, tape only, no mechanical fastenings at all. The cabin sides on the H28 have 7mm deep X 19mm rebates that the old windows used to fit into. The old windows were 6mm thick which left 1mm for the old style sealant so they needed screws as well to hold them in place. The new windows are 8mm. I rounded the edge on my spindle moulder and will use the tape to affix them to the cabin sides, overlapping the rebate. Then go down below and squirt the rebate full with sikaflex 295uv and tool it off. I find this method the easiest and cleanest, if you can ever keep things clean with that horrible blac
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At least in my case, the windows have so many scratches on them that I prefer to get new ones. Then my question would be how to cover the holes in the fibreglass (from the inside). What kind of Sika can do the glueing job? I have Sika 291, but I guess it's a sealant and not a glue. And also, I did remove the bolts from one of the windows last weekend and then found out that the acrylic is impossible to remove, any suggestion there? Other than pushing hard from the interior Cheers
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Usually these days with acrylic windows they fit into a recess . Using a bed of marine sealant - there are several types ( Sika have one product) , it should seal and secure the window adequately to not have to use screws . Modern sealants are very strong and using screws is likely to cause stress points in the acrylic .
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Is that right though?( I hope not) plenty of soft dodgers get through cat 1 because the structural and watertightness of the boat is dependent on the existing hatch and bulkhead etc. Most hard dodger windows won't meet the 2 square feet threshold anyway. I'm planning on a hard dodger myself and intend to use acrylic at this stage because its more scratch resistant than polycarbonate.I'll just beef it up, If a wave does bust through.. tough luck, all the hatch structure is still there. Oh.. are you opening all that out?
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You mean this $7.9 million dollar monumental f*ck up? There was, and then there wasn't. The bridge across the motorway was to have opened last September but hairline cracks have appeared on 10 of 206 acrylic panels fixed to the $7.9 million structure. The Herald reported in May that the Transport Agency was considering whether to attach temporary screens to the structure, so it could be used before a permanent solution was found. The agency says tests have satisfied it that the 10 lanes of traffic passing underneath are in no danger from faulty panels. But it can't say
