Need back glass!!

[dezeldoc]

Some of the shifts have a rotating 1st/2nd. that is the worst, no way you can get your body to adapt to one week sleeping in the day and the next week sleeping at night. all toll with the 12 hr work and 2 hr drive it makes for long days! just glad to be back at work after a 2 yr vacation!

[Niel Hoback]

You guys are cracking me up. The reason I am so happy to be retired is the work schedule in the mill. Its called a twenty turn schedule where you work five days on the first shift, two days off and five days on the second shift. After two more days off you go to five days on the third shift.

The first shift starts at 11PM, second at 7AM, and third at 3PM.

This covers twenty shifts. since there are twenty one shifts in a week, one shift is reserved for maintenance, and that is the first shift of each Sunday. So, each week you work the first shift, you get Sunday and one other day off.

The one "down turn" shift each week moves the entire work schedule back one day each week, so you never have the same days off.

In addition to never being being able to adjust your sleep pattern, or your eating pattern, you seldom see your family during some weeks, and you cannot plan events for weekends because you really don't have any except in the middle of some weeks. No, they don't have any idea what you're going thru and just say things like, "go get some sleep".

Thank you for reading my little rant, it has eaten at me for 39 years and 3 months. Could this be why I am so screwed up?

[Plymouthy Adams]

Could this be why I am so screwed up?

no..but its better than some other explainations I have heard..

I worked 30 day shifts and reverse rotation while in the army was not bad..we had great perks..worked well in my opinion

[Niel Hoback]

Tim, how many explanations of why I am screwed up have you heard? Not counting the six or eight just from my wife?

[Plymouthy Adams]

not saying I have heard any specifics on you..just excuses in general...lol trust me..I have never met or talked to your wife...but it sounds like she is well informed..

[dezeldoc]

Well cost me 200 bucks for the glass but i got one! I also found more golf balls in the yard, so now i am tracking down a few leads on a couple of guys in the hood that have been seen hitting balls! After i put the word out to a few neighbors about the window, Two guys came back with the same name and one guy had another. I will find out who broke it!!

[RobertKB]

Mike, glad you found some glass for your car and good luck hunting down, figuratively not literally, the culprits.

$200 sounds like a lot of money but for a tough piece of glass like the one you were looking for it probably is not a bad price. Just curious where you got it and if any of the leads earlier in the thread led you to it.

[dezeldoc]

Robert, it is coming from Minnesota so their is a pretty hefty shipping cost on it. all the ones you guys came up with were gone but the one guy found this from a friend. Thanks again guys!

[RobertKB]

Sounds like they are getting pretty scarce. It is probably a good idea to pull the back windows on these old cars if they are being parted out as this glass is going to get really pricey. Glad you got one!!

[dezeldoc]

Yep i have pulled any curved tempered glass or windshields out of the cars in my yard and put them in the shed, flat glass is no problem to replace, but this tempered glass and windshields are getting hard to come by.

[BobT-47P15]

I've noticed that back glass is getting tougher to find.

So, after the tree fell on the P15 coupe, and the back window was

still intact, I had an auto glass company go over and remove it

for me. It's residing in a box for now, till we get ready to re-use

it.

[greg g]

So some neighborhood morron is whacking golf balls into your yard????? I think Tiger Wood's wife has a How To video regarding other uses for golf clubs. You might wan to check it out......

[dezeldoc]

So some neighborhood morron is whacking golf balls into your yard????? I think Tiger Wood's wife has a How To video regarding other uses for golf clubs. You might wan to check it out......

So do i! They make mighty fine neck ties!

[dezeldoc]

Well the search is on again! the guy called this morning and said they broke the glass and have not been able to find another, so here we go again! anybody have any more leads? this is getting to be like finding a needle in a hay stack!

[RobertKB]

Mike, maybe start a new thread as people may not scroll down and realize you need another back window. They may think you are still hunting for "golphers". Is that kind of like hunting for "gophers"?

[dezeldoc]

Thanks Robert, i don't know which is going to be easier to find, the guy that broke it or the window!

[greg g]

Is yours still whole??? If so could you use it as a mold to make a Lexan replacement?

[dezeldoc]

Is yours still whole??? If so could you use it as a mold to make a Lexan replacement?

The only thing holding it together is duct tape! if you touch it to hard it will be in a million pieces so i don't think it will work. i could make a buck for it and have a new glass made but to much $$

[JerseyHarold]

The bodies were made by Briggs (who also manufactured for Packard and others) so the glass may fit other makes and models so you can widen your search. Have you spoken to an auto glass place that has access to NAGS numbers or checked a Hollander's?

[dezeldoc]

I want to give a big THANKS to young ed for the heads up on a P-20 getting parted out, and another big THANKS to highpockets for the great deal on the glass and super quick shipping, the packing job was unbelievable, got here in one piece! OK going out now and finish the wiring so i can drive this thing!