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Thermal Pane
On Jul 13, 11:57 pm, nJb wrote:
Michael wrote: Jack wrote: We do it all the time at our studio. If you can't figure it out you might want to take it to a pro. *************** I think I'd hesitate to do it myself, but it doesn't keep me from being curious about the technique and the hardware. Southern Glass said that there was somebody in Indianapolis who could do it for me. Thanks, Michael That spacer you are talking about is the adhesive and dessicant. Comes in rolls of various thicknesses. The black stuff is silicone. We often install at 3000' higher elevation than we build them. We install a capillary tube to equalize the pressure and pull it out at the installed elevation. Jack In my neck of the woods only a flexible spacer is used on curvy stuff. Aluminum spacer bars for everything else. The bars are 3/8" wide and 3/8" tall and generally one bar is half filled with dessicant to absorb any moisture trapped between the two pieces of glass. Hot butyl is then applied with a squeeze gun to the edge of the unit. If stained glass goes into the unit then neoprene block are inserted into the butyl at the bottom of the unit to prevent the unit from pushing the spacer bar into the butyl. |
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