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G'day Ladies and Gents,
Just a quick question. What are the dimensions of the standard under door sills for a 1960 Series 2 SWB (88")?
Paddock Spares advertise a 5inch option and a 7cm option.
Question is two fold I guess. Which looks best and which is the original? Can anyone post a picture of their sills with a clear measurement of height? A comparison of both options would be fantastic.
Thanks for your time,
Sam
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Originally Posted by Sam22
1960 would originally be 5" sills.
If you look at pictures of Series II's vs. series III's you'll see the difference.
Colin
Thanks Colin.
Appreciate the quick response. Now to order the parts.
Sam
Hi Sam,
They are easy to make; all that is needed is some basic hand tools.
If you are interested let me know and I can start a post on how to do it,
Cheers Charlie
Do it......do it......Quote:
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PLZ
Cheers Rod
G'day Charlie,
A 'how to post on bespoke hand made sills' would be great! I suspect you could probably sell them and make a profit on this side of the world too. A market for these things seems to be created by the fact that they are the first thing to get damaged when 4wding or completing farm work. A LR with straight sills seems to be a rare find.
I have noticed that a lot of the UK guys that are rebuilding theirs for off road work will replace the sills with hand made (or purchased) slider rails. Not the look I am after but an interesting option none-the-less.
Thanks in advance.
Sam
G'day All,
Need some advice.
I have made some progress on 'Berty' and have recently removed all of the existing glass in order to replace the seals and get the glass polished. The glass is not chipped (thankfully) but does have a number of scratches consistent with 57 years of hard work and farm time. I had assumed that a glass place (car or building) would be able to polish the glass but this turns out to not be the case.
Have any of you had experience in getting the glass polished and if so how have you achieved it?
Any recommendations for automotive glass polishing in Canberra or Sydney?
Thanks,
Sam
I would have thought that to 'polish out' a scratch you'd have to remove glass down to the depth of the scratch. If you do this locally, around the scratch you'll get a wavy pane of glass but it seems that there are companies that do the job Melbourne Glass Scratch RemovalQuote:
Originally Posted by Sam22
My solution has been to buy a parts car, then another until I finally get numerous sheets of glass and can pick out the best. Problem is you need time & the space to store them !
You could get new pieces cut locally by a glass company that is able to cut flat laminated sheets and apply the automotive marking. Shipping from the UK is also an option e.g. MTC5304 | Door Top Glass - fixed piece - Paddock Spares
I've had windscreens shipped from the UK without issues.
Colin
I paid $110 for two new windsceen pieces of glass, they even made sure the stamp was in the same spot on both pieces of glass. [smilebigeye]
Worth every cent to look through a crystal clear windscreen
You should note that the windscreen in 1960, if original, will be toughened glass, not laminated. In fact, I don't think laminated glass was fitted until some time during Series 3 production.
Laminated glass has been a requirement in new cars since the 1980s, but prior to that toughened glass was the norm, although some cars had laminated glass earlier.
The advantage of laminated glass is that it will not shatter all over when impacted by a stone, unlike toughened glass, which will. The disadvantage of laminated glass is that it will crack from impacts that would not damage toughened glass, and also has a softer surface, which will scratch more easily.
Toughened glass, because it has the surface under stress should not have scratches polished out except for the most superficial ones.
Toughened glass is easily identified by looking at it through polarising sunglasses, where a mottled pattern will be apparent. Some windscreens will have a modified zone in front of the driver that stops the spread of shattering so you don't lose all vision, and you can see this in polarised light.
Laminated glass is, of course, immediately identifiable once the glass is removed from the frame, by looking at the edge.
All windscreens should be marked in a corner, but this may not be the case for early ones, and the marking may not be particularly helpful.
(I remember when I was at uni (1961), our lecturer had to drive from Broken Hill to Sydney in the faculty's almost brand new Landrover, with no glass in the driver's side windscreen because it had copped a rock.)