22-07-2020, 09:55 PM
Early saloons (R and RK types) appear to have the fixed side and rear windows "puttied" in. When my R type was bodged up cosmetically rebuilt in the 1980's, the windows were put back in with Dumdum putty. This was clearly wrong as the oil from the Dumdum has crept between the layers of the original Triplex laminated glass and left a tide mark of about an inch of brown stain.
Anyone know what the original material was? It was brown in colour and the traces remaining on my car have gone rock hard after 94 years. It wasn't, from the smell of it, Linseed oil putty.
Actually, there may have been two sealers, the stuff sealing the rubber strips at the end of the sliders is different, black in colour and equally hard.
More to the point, what's available to use now? I see some Butyl glass sealers on eBay and wonder if they're useable?? Anybody else crossed this bridge??
Anyone know what the original material was? It was brown in colour and the traces remaining on my car have gone rock hard after 94 years. It wasn't, from the smell of it, Linseed oil putty.
Actually, there may have been two sealers, the stuff sealing the rubber strips at the end of the sliders is different, black in colour and equally hard.
More to the point, what's available to use now? I see some Butyl glass sealers on eBay and wonder if they're useable?? Anybody else crossed this bridge??