50. Mount the front and rear screen

After fitting the interior carpert on the parcel shelf and mount the roll over bar and the safety belts the next step on the rear is gluing in the rear window screen.

The car was fitted with a glas screen with window heater for front and rear. 

I was happy to have these type of screens as they are not very common in classic cars. But when we cut out the screens one of the electrical connectors was cut off, too.

Sh...t

I was happy to see the little metal foil between the two glases. Soldering of even welding would not work to connect it again. I remembered the conductive silver lacquer I used years ago to heal my window heater.

Lets try...

With a fine grinding pad I cleaned both surfaces, added a drop of silver lacquer, pressed it in position and flooded it with epoxy glue.

Congratulations - it has electrical contact again.

The rest of the old glue has to be removed - this is much more easy written, than realized !

The bonding surface for the screen has to be free of dust, grease and paint - the pure gelcoat is needed to get the best adhensive joint .

I use a glue system called Terostat 8597 HMLC, a primer and a polyurethan adhensive.

The primer has to be applied on both sides, then the glue was added in a nice and regular caterpiller. 

Uwe has done this a few hunderd times, so he helped me with this job...

After that pressing the screen in position and apply the rest of the glue to fix the rubber between body and glas. 

It is a little bit tricky to find the right position for the rubber and not to have too much or too less glue. 

And by the way: If you have to wipe off some of the glue from the screen or body - 

follow the rule "one wipe with therag, one fold of the rag". If you think you can use the nearly same area of your rag to wipe again - you will end up with more glue on the body than on in the rag. 

I tried it for 20 times until I trust...  :-(

At the end the result was very well.