Windshield Repair Forum

Another thing to realize .....

The repair does not look "done" until it is cured. When I first started "practicing," I kept re-filling and doing all sorts of crazy things, assuming that the repair would look "great" while I was in injection/vacuum/drill/etc... mode!.


WRONG!!!


Practice a bit. You'll begin to see what a "filled" repair looks like prior to cure. It may look ugly to start, but perfect to end!

Your equipment (if quality) will guide you throught this process.

hog out the hole a bit

Techicnal term Jeff 8)

Jeff, I hope you aren't really getting laminate material on your bits. #-o

Jeff, I hope you aren't really getting laminate material on your bits.

LOL!

Okay, you caught me, i'm a laminate driller!

Anyway, answer a windshield repair tech line for a day, laminate drilling is tame compared to some calls we get! :-s

Boy, you old timers, (no offense...wise men in glass repair, WMIGR's) make a new guys head spin. But thats ok, good stuff to know, I was hoping to give it another try this afternoon after work,...didn't happen

So hopefully tomorrow. Supposed to be a fantastic week for WSR here in the Rockies, should be upper 60's by the weekend. Good for practicing...or making money if I was ready, which I aint.

Thanks for all the great tips...BTW about how deep on average can you drill before you hit laminate?

Hey Mike,
You will know when you hit the laminet, your drill feels like it breaks through something and drops a little bit. Trust me once you break through to the laminet you will know it. As a general rule of thumb, drilling is only used when their is not enough of an opening for resin to flow into the chip. I actualy drill about 70% of what I fix, but when I do drill I bearly go in at all, I am just creating a very, very, very small indention in the glass so that the resin can flow. Lots of people drill to the laminate, but I don't recommend that. Makes the chip look very ugly.
David
Coitster

Welcome Mad Mike
Enjoy reading your post and your new experences, I can even learn more from your drilling adventures.. One of my adventured was when I first started was I was drilling too long and my bit got red hot
Then I broke off my bit in the drill holes After that I drilled the lamante ,,, boy was I learning. Hopefully you will do the same and learn from mistakes [-X
What I learned on your post was HOG OUT THE HOLE I was doing that but never knew what the correct termonagly was
Also when you drill the laminate I didnt know that you could BURN THE DRILL BIT to get the laminate off the bit,,Thanks Jeff for that one. :DAnd thanks to everbody else for the shareing of knowlage \:D/ =D>

Ok, I got it, drill just a little....if necessary. I think another thing I didn't do correctly is cyle between PSI/Vacuum. So I learned that too. I was reading the archives last night on long crack repair. Pretty interesting how you drill a small hole, pop a mini, then run the crack into the mini to stop it, very intrigueing....can't wait to try that one.

I don't think I needed to "Hog out" the hole since i was using the tapered bit. If I was using the rounded bit (did I say that right) i would have had to hog out....right???

I need to get me a piece of practice glass too! SOON!!!

I don't think I needed to "Hog out" the hole since i was using the tapered bit. If I was using the rounded bit (did I say that right) i would have had to hog out....right???

Other way around Mike...With the tapered point bits, they can bind up in the hole and snap off. It's less of a problem with the round point.

You need to rotate the butt of the drill or risk breaking any bur!! Not to enlarge the hole. I sometimes have trouble getting my thought across Sounds like progress!!!, go mike!!!! Oh and definatly get that practice glass soon. Scott