Glass Easel to hold windows

RICHat22 · September 2, 2006

I am thinking about trying something new and was looking for ideas. I pull windows occasionally, and would more if I had a better tool or system. Right now it's a rubber faced bench vise. I want an easel of sorts to clamp my glass into and be able to tint it out of the car.

Anyone have anything similar they are using? Pictures are welcome but I will likely make more then one if I get one designed like I like. I have in mind what I want to do and I don't want anyone thinking I am stealing ideas.

I'll post mine when I get it built in the next week or two. :nope

uncle bob · September 10, 2006

I use something similar to what you are describing when I have to remove a glass. Its basically made from 1 inch box section stainless and has 4 suction cups attached to it, these can be moved closer to each other for a small glass or further apart for larger windows.

Tell me how to attach a photo and I will do so tomorrow when back at work.

Uncle Bob

blade · September 10, 2006

just curious....since 1985 I have never seen a piece of glass removed.....why in the world would you do such a thing we've had people bring in glass from vehicles they're rebuilding or something and I tell them to come back when the glass is in the car

you don't pull flat back windows on gasket set glass? newer model F-350 BGs, any older chevys, all the rears on the older square cherokees, older VW rabbits........ :beer it's easier (to me) to pull 'em rather than deal with dirty gaskets.

September 10, 2006

I am thinking about trying something new and was looking for ideas. I pull windows occasionally, and would more if I had a better tool or system. Right now it's a rubber faced bench vise. I want an easel of sorts to clamp my glass into and be able to tint it out of the car.
Anyone have anything similar they are using? Pictures are welcome but I will likely make more then one if I get one designed like I like. I have in mind what I want to do and I don't want anyone thinking I am stealing ideas.

I'll post mine when I get it built in the next week or two.

this works for me :lol6

September 10, 2006

those suction cups hold up to 75 lbs. I believe...I have used them for door glasses and b windows from cars to trucks

RICHat22 · September 10, 2006

Right now I pull out with the dual 200 lb glass handler cups like from a cheap tool company near the freight harbor :lol6 like a dual version of TG's They do well to lay flat on a table and keep propped up firm and let solution run down. But an easel to do two at a time maybe would be awesome. Just figuring how to get to both side at once with heat. And keep it firm not to move when Blue Maxing. Don't want to throw too many ideas out for an engineer to steal my ideas, but TG has in mind what I'm thinking. I have been pulling roll-ups for years and years. But TTS and TG on here actually motivated me to pull more and pull quarters back 2-3 yrs ago. Oh so clean.

Customers don't mind, plus I read them fairly well. I have a good enough rep. here that they know if I do it, it's perfect when I'm done. I have 15 years in auto industry, customizing and repairs, 7 ASE's and one of the top GM techs in the southeast. :dunno

never have and have never seen it done. nobody around here wants the glass taken out of their vehicle and have never complained or had an ill comment regarding the outcome

It's not you MM

People in KY didn't know the glass could come out of the vehicle :beer :beer :beer

blade · September 10, 2006

uncle bob · September 10, 2006

I came from a glass replacement background and pulled everything out when I first started, only pull the odd glass out now but sometimes I find it easier and cleaner especially if the rear quarter windows are in a rubber gasket. Pull some front door windows now and again, I suppose its whatever works for you best. As one of you guys say "its a way, not the way.

Anyway, someone tell me how to attach a photo, PLEASE, and I will show you what I use.

Uncle Bob

TintDude · September 10, 2006

Near the bottom of the posting screen is a button labeled "Browse", hit that, then find the file on your HD, click it, then make your post.

The file needs to be under 100k.

Or, you can use photobucket.com to host the pic for free.

:lol6

http://www.tintdude.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=9110

September 11, 2006

A good friend has a very busy shop with many employee's and they do it assembly line.

One tinter does the back glass.

One guy disassembles the doors and takes out the glass, he is not a tinter. By the time he has the fourth one out the first is tinted and "torched" by another tinter, and ready to go back in the car.

I have seen these guy's pound out a 4 door car in twenty minutes, perfect, AND you can roll the windows down now, not in 3 days.

Not my way, but A way.

They have a rack on the wall that holds the glass, hard to explain but basic.