can tempered glass be bent and cut to make a door?

[PILOON]

Lexan or Plexiglass can be shaped.

I once formed an aircraft windshield by heating in a PIZZA oven and shaping it over the old one that I patched with bondo, wore cotton gloves and had clamps ready to clamp them together 'till cooled.

Possibly the other door (window) would serve you as a template as I would presume the curves would be the same.
Cut and trim using the door frame as your template.
Cut with a jigsaw and lubricate the blade as you go as the saw will clog and jamb and then shatter your plexi.
Then use glass adhesive sold at auto parts suppliers.

Should work OK, good luck!

 

[texasjohn]

Message received...the dealer is there for a reason... to provide parts I can't realistically build myself, like a multi-curved and bent glass door... thanks for the input.

Have checked two dealers... $410 is cost for glass door, plus shipping if I want it immediately, or wait an extra day and dealer will include order in his stock order and no shipping cost applies....

Gasket is around $80.

Have ordered the door from Lanford Equipment in Austin... good folks. I'll remove glass from old gasket and see if that will work, if not, will purchase that new too. It appears that the glass is simply inserted into the old gasket...not glued in any way. Just need to pick out the small pieces.

 

[firefighter9208]

I would suggest that you let your dealer install the glass. Or get a "glass shop" that does car windows to install it. That way if it gets broken doing the install your not our another $400.00.

There is an art to installing glass with the rubber gasket that your talking about. It involves using a string, but I can't explain. I have seen it done and it's amazing that they could install the glass in 5 minutes when it would probably take me two hours.

Chris

 

[ccsial]

I would suggest that you let your dealer install the glass. Or get a "glass shop" that does car windows to install it. That way if it gets broken doing the install your not our another $400.00.

There is an art to installing glass with the rubber gasket that your talking about. It involves using a string, but I can't explain. I have seen it done and it's amazing that they could install the glass in 5 minutes when it would probably take me two hours.

Chris

DITTO.......

 

[oliver28472]

I did that one time when I replaced a back side window on my son's Corolla. Junkyard man just told me how to do it using a string and liquid soap. On this I would let a body shop or other pro do it.

 

[texasjohn]

I understand what y'all are saying as relates to a car front or rear window.

Turns out this is a tractor door... no metal rim.... just a rubber gasket around the edge. Pre-drilled holes are available for attaching the hinges via simple screw in bolts, cushioning rubber in hinges is undamaged. Door should arrive this week and I'll install this weekend, hopefully.

will let you know how it goes.

 

[NH-Rob]

Puting on a new door is easy but you will be on pins and needles worring about breaking it the whole time. I replaced one on the farms m120 I used a bent hook type tool to pick the glass out of the old gasket (quite time comsuming) only to find that the mechanic had ordered the glass with a new gasket. oh well we have a spare now.
Rob

 

[texasjohn]

picked out the old glass today... waiting arrival of the door....that is all I ordered, can order gasket later if for some reason old one does not work.

 

[DUMBDOG]

It seemed easier to remove the hinges from the cab and install them on the door along with the other hardware, then mount the hinges back on the cab. The gasket is the easy part. The door latch is the tough one to get apart.

 

[oliver28472]

Turns out this is a tractor door... no metal rim.... just a rubber gasket around the edge.

Gotcha now. Good luck.