Windshield Repair Forum

Excuse me for my lack of terminology in WSR. What does "popping a bullseye"?

magicogar


Popping a bull's-eye is when the impact point will not let the resident in inner the repair. The way this work is you drill into the windshield and then you insert a needle or probe and tap it. This causes a bull's-eye to form.

Thanks!! very interesting...to make it work.. sometimes we must sacrifice by causing more harm. hmmm....

Very important that the drill bit used prior to popping the bulls eye, is just a little bigger (in diameter) than whatever you use to pop the bulls eye!

If the drill hole is smaller in diameter than what you are using to pop the bulls eye, you'll likely end up having more damage to the impact point.

Practice on a used w/s first!!

Great point Dave M I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one that has ever done that..

Brian

Holy cow. Didn't realize this thread had turned into a Gordian knot.

(Coitster. The ten dollar gift certificate from your local dollar store in payment for your approbation is in the mail.)

Me rant? Me rave? Nonsense.

A well-laid out symmetry of carefully postulated and logically precise albeit lengthy at times theorems is more like it.

I think.

Certainly, there are many excellent suggestions within this thread.

My only contention is that I use the ABC approach everytime on anything other than an unusual break.

If by C, the break is NOT responding to the repair for some reason or another, that is when I start applying the tricks of the trade many of which are mentioned by others previous to this post.

Quite simply, good equipment wielded by a good tech taking sufficient time will effectively result in a good repair 90% of the time. It's the other 10% that make our business interesting and something other than rote.

And, I trust that is the 10% we're talking about.

What the heck are you talking about?!!?