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

[RickB]

I'm thinking it is time to use some sort of flexible adhesive to secure them before they sag at the wrong moment and catch on brush and get ripped off. Anyone have any thoughts on what adhesive might work well in this application?


Pat

I use 3M Weatherstrip Adhesive.

 

[patrick_g]

I use 3M Weatherstrip Adhesive.

Thanks for the suggestion, sounds reasonable.

Pat

 

[texasjohn]

Ok... full disclosure... I said it was a quick install... it was!

However, the door came shrouded in a plastic bubble wrap that was adhered to the glass with some sort of sticky stuff....

Took 2 hours to get the sticky stuff off...Windex would not touch it...nor alcohol.... finally found some nail polish remover.... and spent 2 hours to get the job done. Wish I had done it BEFORE installing the door... still a few spots I can't reach around hinges, etc.

 

[patrick_g]

Ok... full disclosure... I said it was a quick install... it was!

However, the door came shrouded in a plastic bubble wrap that was adhered to the glass with some sort of sticky stuff....

Took 2 hours to get the sticky stuff off...Windex would not touch it...nor alcohol.... finally found some nail polish remover.... and spent 2 hours to get the job done. Wish I had done it BEFORE installing the door... still a few spots I can't reach around hinges, etc.

There is a product typically available at all the big box stores that will make getting the goo off easy. It is called "GOOF OFF" (there are other similar brands) and it works near miracles on adhesives, paint splatters etc. Price labels and such stuff as new window labels that get left in the sun too long and so forth succumb rapidly to its solvents.

Nail polish remover is acetone with some oil. Just acetone would leave her fingers degreased and not pretty. The Goof Off stuff is not as dangerous to use as acetone as regards to harming or dissolving stuff and getting unintended collateral damage.

Pat

 

[texasjohn]

Right you are.... intersting you should mention goof-off I had never heard of it... however, when I moved my MIL from her house to assisted living over a year ago, I glommed on to all her stuff, paint, lots of things...

When I discovered that windex was no good... nor alcohol.... I went hunting for what else I might have... found in her stuff both goof-off and "non acetone nail polish remover". I tried the goof-off and it didn't seem to live up to its billing on the label... I guess the stuff I was faced with was something really tough.... the "non acetone nail polish remover" was the best of all them... and it still took 2 hours to get the job done... glad I found SOMETHING that, along with elbow grease, worked.

Thanks for the goof-off comments... I'll keep the stuff and use on some next problem.

 

[Scooby074]

One of the best label removers ive found is Citrasolv. All natural, smells great. A great alternative to solvent based cleaners

Citrus Solvent - Lee Valley Tools