Here's one I hope for which I hope someone has a method ...
In the process of drilling and tapping the rear window and roll bar (p. 38-04) I managed to break the tap with only a small shard exposed above the window - too short and jagged to "unscrew" with pliers. So the problem is how to remove the rear window without cracking around the tap die. If that can be done, there should be plenty of tap protruding from the roll bar for removal.
A few, probably desperate, ideas have occurred to me: would heating the window locally with a heat gun, after removing all of the other screws, make it possible to pry the window off around the tap without cracking?; is there a solvent that could be applied to the flutes on the tap that might make removing the window easier?; or, is there a Lilliputian hole saw available that would barely fit around the tap, since the threads in the window get drilled out anyhow?
So I'm posting in hopes of finding someone who's been there before ....
- Tom
In the process of drilling and tapping the rear window and roll bar (p. 38-04) I managed to break the tap with only a small shard exposed above the window - too short and jagged to "unscrew" with pliers. So the problem is how to remove the rear window without cracking around the tap die. If that can be done, there should be plenty of tap protruding from the roll bar for removal.
A few, probably desperate, ideas have occurred to me: would heating the window locally with a heat gun, after removing all of the other screws, make it possible to pry the window off around the tap without cracking?; is there a solvent that could be applied to the flutes on the tap that might make removing the window easier?; or, is there a Lilliputian hole saw available that would barely fit around the tap, since the threads in the window get drilled out anyhow?
So I'm posting in hopes of finding someone who's been there before ....
- Tom