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Frank sent photos of his bolt-free window installation |
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End product ~ proud & happy Frank Proud owners with curtain Fixing with Tenax A4 buttons primer black without tape not good exact edge with tape before primer rubber for the right distance for glue ready for gluing Sika 295 gluing the edge from outside flatten the edge from outside
End product ~ proud & happy Frank
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I just finished fixing the windows of my wharram NARAI MK
IV Mauna Kea - and I think it is a little specific: no screws only glue
for the plexiglas windows. I positioned the photos with numbers for the
right order.
Let me tell the story: Last year I was searching for the right boat and
saw a lot of wharrams in Germany and England, and mostly the windows
were fixed with screws and the glue was not so fine. I was searching
around for the best solution after I caught the Narai Mk IV in southern
Germany. Even on your forum there was no answer to find.
So I asked the gluing experts of SIKAflex - and they told me to glue the
windows in the way the photos tell.
It is important to treat the plexi windows right before fixing. Flame
all open edges with a gasburner, so there can go no air or water inside
the glass. To have no holes in the glass is advantage - the aging of the
glass is nearly stopped.
Than primer glass and surface of the boat (shown on photos) and fix the
distance for the glue with rubber spacers (I took 4 mm for a 2 m length
window).
After that you can draw the first line with SIKA. Put the window on the
boat and fix with a little tape - it doesn't matter if glue comes out of
the side a little.
Let it dry and harden for at least 3 days, than you can draw a line from
inside and the last from outside. The lines can be flattened with a
watery finger just after putting the lines - fine.
I personally will now paint the outside glue with normal boating colours
- and that is everything.
In fact you need a lot of SIKA glue for it is thick on the window (not
very cheap). But that is worth it. I love that look with no screws - she
looks very elegant...
fair winds
Frank |
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Posted - 2
March 2004
Topic -
Boat windows ~ fitting without screws or bolts. 
