Double Bull

[2hipp4u]

Went back and tried to repair this again to day, I decided to redrill both bulls which I did and they were both craters. I then tapped another bull on top of them. the large bull filled fine except there were two legs inside the cone that I couldn't fill.

The small bull still wouldn't fill, but when I drilled it this time I got what I would call something that looks like a curly french fry in the debree, I know glass wont do this so I am pretty certain it was repaired before. It also had a film in it that was rainbow colored kind of like oil film on water.

Anyway told the customer to get a new windshield.

2hipp4u

[mafsu]

I think someone has mentioned this on the forum before. The rainbow look you got made me think of it. The white you mentioned yesterday should have made me think of it. Backyard mechanics and fleet mechanics used to believe if they could get transmission fluid into a star or bullseye and heat it with a torch that it would stop it from cracking out. Don't see these very often but when I have they had a milky look to them.
This may or may not be the case with this windshield.

[glassdoctor]

That's interesting, mafsu..

The rainbow could be a number of contaminates, including water...

Better to pass on stuff like that than stake you name and rep on it....

[desertstars]

Probably so, mafsu.

That was an OLD windshield and that tranny fluid remedy was used a few years ago before the super-glue remedy appeared.

[mafsu]

As I explained before this is an old if ineffective trick that mechanics thought would stop the damage from spreading. I believe the point was to soften the inner layer with the ATF then the heat would cause it to spread out into the damaged area. My conclusion was that since the vehicle in question is a 69 El Camino that is apparently in pretty good shape. If it weren