Windows in a Bus Conversion and/or Air Conditioning?

[dtcerrato]

Most glass shops cut the glass and then temper the glass I never saw tempered glass cut before . Mowing the grass the mower pickup up a rock and threw and it  now it is going to cost me a patio door glass, the price they are asking I can almost buy a new set of doors, $900.00 for a tempered door glass is crazy 

You may want to go the glass route after you price the door!

[luvrbus]

You may want to go the glass route after you price the door!

LOl I am going the glass route I priced the door at Lowes,when I purchased the doors 20 years ago they $1200.00 not now. It is a double pane I just thought 900 bucks for 1 broke pane was crazy

[Jim Blackwood]

Sounds pretty crazy to me.

Decades ago I bought glass for a table top, cut to size, edges beveled, and tempered. A local glass shop supplied it, I never got to see how they did it. A quick search reveals it's a heating and quenching process, I'm frankly anazed that a local glass shop could do that. But maybe they special ordered it.

Which means of course, the existing glass could only be cut by extremely careful abrasive methods with a high risk of shattering. It appears it can be cut by annealing it first so a shop that can temper it can also cut it. That would be the preferred method. Don't think that could be used if there is any lamination or film.

Jim

[luvrbus]

I wonder how they put the EV and tint in the tempered glass the one the glass company cut to send off is just clear but he says it will come back with the same tint and EV as the other lol in 2 to 3 weeks

[Jim Blackwood]

Dunno, what's EV again? I expect while the glass is hot they can hit it with a tinting agent of some kind. Maybe a spray. That would sort of explain the band of tint at the top of the old windshields.

Jim