Welding/Grinding Near Windshield

[sparkplug188]

Don't grind or weld within 10 feet of your windshield without protecting it with a welding blanket.  The sparks will melt the laminated coating and you will be left with hundreds of permanent rust spots.  You can probably guess how I know. LOL

[blue_goose]

If you had ask I had already found out not to do that.
Jack

[luvrbus]

Mirrors don't care it for either but Ramco loves it 

[Jeremy]

Yep, done the same thing. I got some glass polish (jewellers' rouge), which helped a lot, but the glass is still pockmarked if you look closely.

Don't let grinding sparks from your bus fall on the paintwork of your Lexus either.

Jeremy

[luvrbus]

What Jeremy I liked the looks of the little red specks on the Lexus white but the commander and chief here wasn't to keen on the idea 

[gumpy]

BTDT! 

Also, make sure your neighbor's yard has been watered before grinding in that direction.   

[HB of CJ]

Seems laminated safety glass does not like ANY measurable concentrated heat or applied pressure.  Also specifically do not try to kill pesky wasps by cutting them in two with your trusty K-bar utility knife after they have stung you three time and you want revenge and that aforementioned pesky wasp is resting on laminated safety glass. 

Poor judgment.  Do not ask.  Same thing with ANY measurable concentrated high heat, (any source) heating up laminated safety glass, like Bus Conversion side windows.  Again, poor judgment.  Again, do not ask.  Embarrassing.  HB of CJ  (embarrassed old coot)   Ah well.  Maybe it is a strength of materials thing?  Dunno fur sures.

[Dave5Cs]

Built a lumber rack once on my truck and did the same thing.
And all you young guys  don't drink a lot of beer with a friend and decide you can have a shooting competition  in the garage with the targets being black widows on the back side of the wooden garage door with a pellet gun. Just saying in case you think of it!.......

[OneLapper]

And never use the grinder near your inflatable hot tub ............ 

[Ed Hackenbruch]

Man, i never realized that grinders were so dangerous! Probably a good thing that i don't own one!!! 

[Jeremy]

My grinder has twice had me in the eye clinic to get bits of metal removed from my eye. Once is bad luck but twice is just careless....

Speaking of bus windscreens, I have on two occasions had birds get trapped inside my bus, and on both occasions they seemed to be magnetically attracted to the narrow vertical gap between the windscreen and the instrument binnacle. The stupid creatures forced themselves into this gap, which then rendered them completely helpless and stuck because the more they struggled the further they slipped down until they got totally wedged-in. But, on being rescued, they'd fly around the bus for a few seconds, then return to the windscreen and force themselves into the same gap again. Bizarre - and it wasn't just a two or three times this sequence was repeated, it was a dozen or more. In the end I ended up fabricating a special tool to extract the bird from this narrow space that I could barely get my hand into, and also a cardboard cover to instantly slap over the gap the moment the bird was free, so the damn thing didn't immediately wedge itself back in there.

Jeremy

[Slide]

Had a good laugh, Years back when stripping down my Eagle I splatterd two good windshields with a plasma cutter. Felt so stupid I never told anyone till now cause I feel right at home after reading these posts.

[grantgoold]

Make sure not only is the neighbor's yard watered but make sure your carhartts are watered as well  

Grant

[gumpy]

Goodness gracious, great balls of fire!! 

[grantgoold]

Very, Very Nice