Linda. We had the same experience with our rubber welted rear windows. I got so good at putting them back into the welt that I took the window out when I wanted something out of the baggage area rather than climbing up the plane.
They popped out on random. When finally a friend leaned against them while climbing up the plane, the window broke and I decided to get rid of the nuisance and reverted the airplane to it's original setup. http://www.ercoupe.info/?n=Main.RearTopSkin Hartmut To: [email protected] From: [email protected] Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 21:10:59 -0700 Subject: [ercoupe-tech] Re: Is this the best kept secret out there Dan, My 415-C came with the rubber-strips-type of rear windows installed. In the first year or so of ownership, I had to replace both rear windows, so here are some "con" considerations: The left one tended to creep out of its rubber rim at the forward edge, for just a few inches; I could usually push it back gently. However, on my first long x-country, one morning in the Nevada desert, it was very cold (made plastic brittle) and I was very impatient and not as gentle, and so a little section broke. I made it back to SoCal, but on the next flight, the whole remaining window popped out. I got the replacement and the spline tool from Skyport, and (now former) mechanics charged a couple hours work to wrestle the new one into place. The right one was the casualty of another cold evening in the desert, this time in Arizona. I was loading my roll-a-board suitcase into the extended baggage compartment, and made the mistake of loading it handle-first: the hard handle caught the rear window and cracked it. I got another kit from Skyport, and the (new) mechanic said he got the new window almost all the way in when the whole thing popped out again -- and he embedded a wrench in his hangar wall, he was so put out! (And this is a normally-easy-going guy.) I like the extended baggage compartment very much, but am now very, very careful with the rear windows! I also have to warn passengers (esp. kids) not to touch them when stepping up onto the wing. ("Put your hands ONLY on white metal.") Linda N3437H (Sky Sprite) 1946 415C L.A. 2a. Is this the best kept secret out there Posted by: "Caliendo Dan" [email protected] dan.caliendo Date: Sun Oct 18, 2009 7:14 pm ((PDT)) I've asked twice before and didn't get an answer. I'm really interested in the rubber rear window installation I keep seeing. Does anyone know and cons to doing it and where I get the weatherstripping? Looks neater than the hundred (+/-) screws I currently have. Dan Caliendo Ercoupe Mach 0.14 3658H _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live Hotmail: Your friends can get your Facebook updates, right from Hotmail®. http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/windows/windowslive/see-it-in-action/social-network-basics.aspx?ocid=PID23461::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-xm:SI_SB_4:092009
