Oh Dale.
![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
Yes... you're absolutely right, but some background might be in order.
In order to entirely replace this particular window, I'm thinking... The wall is collapsing because someone misguidedly installed a roof-over, did so improperly and without reinforcing the wall and without first re-leveling the place, and... probably a great many other problems that I'm not experienced enough to realize or understand.
And, of course, what I lack in skills barely compares to what I might lack in finances.
So... by some miracle I've got one, single broken window pane in the place, and by gosh, I'm going to find some way to survive the winter (southern lower michigan) in the place because I'm cussed and stubborn as an old wart.
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(But not without an extreme sense of humor about the absurd plight I've found myself in).
It looks like the process (judging from the youtube guy who's restoring and old VW) is something like...
Remove the broken glass
Remove the frame from the little arms that hold it
Take a broken piece of the glass... and either take the entire frame to the local glass shop, or just buy the glass and the putty/gasket kit for replacing the glass.
Somehow, without bending the frame, disassemble it by removing the set screws in the top and bottom of the frame, remove the old gasket/putty and clean the channel... somehow, also, without damaging that aluminum frame
Place gasket around the replacement glass??
Reassemble frame around glass pane? Replace set screws..
Try not to drop it or bang it into anything as you attempt to get the frame and glass re-attached to little arms.
Am I close?
In some of the half-instructions I'm finding, it's talking about some sort of little spring or something that might be part of this assembly. Also, seems to be some suggested that three handed people (or those with prehensile tails) might be best suited to this rather sticky job.
Wish I could find a diagram of these things
Thanks in advance, folks!
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