"Nick Has an Exocet" (nickallain)
09/17/2018 at 02:00 • Filed to: Exocet
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"Nick Has an Exocet" (nickallain)
09/17/2018 at 02:00 • Filed to: Exocet | 3
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I spent a little bit of time tonight designing up a windshield for the Exocet. One of the regulations that you have to comply with in CA is having a safety-glass windshield. There have actually been a lot of issues with people cracking them the moment they go out on the road. The best design seems to be !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! so I’m using that as inspiration.
My plan is to CAD it up and send it off to a local fabricator. Cleanly rolling the sheet metal on the top is outside my ability/tools and I’ll have to get a glass shop to do the glass anyways. My CAD skills suck since tonight was the first time I’ve ever used Autodesk Inventor so I’m going to bribe kindly ask someone at work to check over my model.
I used a sharpie and cardboard to get the bend and make some measurements. To my eyes, that bend looks tapered. I don’t know how to measure that or do it Inventor, so that’s one of my questions.
My CAD model doesn’t have the same bend, methinks. It’s maybe too uniform. It may work regardless? Not sure yet.
I’ll also need to drill 2 holes for the windshield wiper - which is another California requirement. Most people put a manual hand wiper, though there’s a 12V wiper on Amazon that would be kind of cool to have on a misty morning ride on the PCH.
If you want to mess with my models, have at it!
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> Nick Has an Exocet
09/17/2018 at 06:37 |
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mount the wiper closer to the centre to give a bigger wipe
Echo51
> Nick Has an Exocet
09/17/2018 at 06:38 |
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Steal the entire windshield+surround metal work off a suitable looking donor, include wiper + cowling too for extra neat. Bonus points: Merc with mono wiper
LongbowMkII
> Nick Has an Exocet
09/17/2018 at 06:58 |
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It makes sense that the glass would crack if someone basically just mounts it to the structure
SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media
> Nick Has an Exocet
09/17/2018 at 07:16 |
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Original Beetle or Mini windscreen. Land Rover Series if you are feeling game. Use rubber seals rather than bonded. All respect to Matt but that looks hideous.
Could you convince CA authorities if you mounted a 15" Clearview instead of windscreen wipers?
Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street.
> Nick Has an Exocet
09/17/2018 at 08:29 |
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Could you use a Jeep Wrangler windscreen assembly?
t0ast
> Nick Has an Exocet
09/17/2018 at 09:59 |
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Coincidentally, my Exocet is the same one that Matt built. T he pictured windshield came with it, so let me know if you need any additional pictures or measurements.
From when we talked during the sale, he said he made it for the express purpose of passing similar safety glass + wiper regulations in CO and then replaced it with a Lexan windscreen shortly afterwards. Supposedly it was a little awkward to drive due to the width of the surrounding metal at the sides, but I have yet to try it myself.
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Nick Has an Exocet
> t0ast
09/17/2018 at 21:50 |
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Oh awesome! Thanks! I guess my big question is: Is it heavy?
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t0ast
> Nick Has an Exocet
09/18/2018 at 20:48 |
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Not counting the mounting hardware or wiper
, it weighs in at
around 27 lbs.
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Nick Has an Exocet
> t0ast
09/18/2018 at 21:34 |
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Thanks! That’s actually better than I thought!
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t0ast
> Nick Has an Exocet
09/19/2018 at 10:33 |
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No problem. I was a little surprised about it myself.