Bullseye

[harrellbenjamin]

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[gt_repair]

Rowdy

Are you toying with everyone again? :eusa_danc :eusa_danc

[rowdy13]

Rowdy

Are you toying with everyone again? :eusa_danc :eusa_danc

Sort of, but do I just hit the windshield with the hook end, like I would swing a stick at it, or do I place the hook end against the windshield and then hit it with something hard???

[gt_repair]

Wrist action. Just flick it down like using a tack hammer but harder.

[rowdy13]

QUESTION----How many Okies does it take to make a bullseye? Forum members please provide the answer to that question please.

[GlassStarz]

So now we have turned to denegrading people from Oklahoma? not exactly PC you are starting to sound like someone that left here about the same time you showed up?

[rowdy13]

So now we have turned to denegrading people from Oklahoma? not exactly PC you are starting to sound like someone that left here about the same time you showed up?

I AM an Okie Mr. Whiz Bang! It was a joke directed at me. get your knickers out of a wad! How's that for PC?

[gt_repair]

Over half of you are so serious about life and things. If someone does not fit in your mold then you try to get them booted off by tattling on them because they walked over the line.

Some of you need to go to K-mart and buy a sense of humor. It is on sale this week, half price and buy the extended warranty in case it would fail again.

We are all here to learn and I would think we are all in this as a group, but it seems like some of you walk higher than others or just want to on the web.

Remember to stop by K-mart on the way home today.

[Brent Deines]

Well, now that gt has gotten us all straightened out, can we get back to the subject at hand?

Rowdy, did you buy the hook tool from Delta Kits or was it another brand? I suppose I could look it up but hey, I'm lazy!

The reason I ask is that as I said previously, we have experimented with a number of different brands, and found this one to work the best, and I have never found it in any local stores. Even with this brand there are variations to the design, so it's important to get the right one for best results.

Assuming you have the one we sell, it takes a pretty good full arm smack in most cases, and admittedly some people are better at it than others, but all of my employees are able to do it quite successfully. Again, the glass also makes a difference. Some just breaks easier than others, and I have never been able to narrow it down to a particular brand, or windshield number.

With a little practice you should be able to make pretty good bullseyes just about every time unless you have a particularly stubborn piece of glass, but feel free to call us when you have the hook in your hand if you continue to have problems.

[Daveycrewcut]

Back to Glasstarz original post. I'm sure all of you have seen a non-laminated piece of plate glass with a small hole where a rock, BB or other projectile hit the glass and a much larger hole on the other side where it "cratered out". Imagine if the missing piece of glass remained intact. It would look like a small cone-shaped piece of glass! With laminated glass, a bullseye occurs when the projectile hits the surface and cracks in all directions diagonally until it stops at the plastic interlayer! The tip of the cone is the pit. The larger circular bottom of the cone is still attached to the plastic interlayer.
Your goal is to get air out and resin in around the cone all the way down to the plastic interlayer.

If you don't have a way to vacuum the air out first, I can see where you would think it a waste of time. But if you can vacuum first (dry vac) and then use the vacuum created around the cone to help pull the resin in, you just might save time!

It is also nice to be able to use a built-in probe to press down on the tip of the cone to push the cone slightly into the plastic interlayer thereby making it easier for any trapped air to get out and making it easier for the resin to flow down around the cone!

None of this should be confused with the term "drilling and popping a bullseye" which refers to drilling part way to the plastic interlayer and then inserting a tool into the drill hole and tapping to create a miniature "bullseye" at the bottom of the drill hole.