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Old 01-12-2019, 02:32 PM   #1
8man
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48 window channel

I've been told that when installing the window channel, you will cut off a piece to make it fit.

If that is true, I would really like that cut off piece. I've got a new window channel guide installed, and it is only 28.5" wide at the top. I measured the frame that goes around the window and it too measures 28.5".

So I'm worried about it being right.

If someone has a piece, please let me know.

Thanks.
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Old 01-12-2019, 06:03 PM   #2
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Re: 48 window channel

I'm not following what you are saying at all.

The channel that the glass and frame that goes around it or glass alone if you went that way is usually bought in a bulk length and goes clear around in one piece from the bottom of the piece it sets in in the back to the bottom of the matching piece in the rear.

Here: This is one of the best tutorials on installing the channel I have found. It explains why you cut the piece off the end of the channel and all. I have never used the adhesive to hold it in but that is a learning experience for me today. They are using a "bulk" channel that has to be cut to length rather than a formed and cut to fit channel that some suppliers might sell.

This a well spent nine minutes and fifty three seconds but the guy isn't very loud so you have to turn the volume up to hear him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fn24agtHlP8

AS a side note: the video that follows that one shows how to install the back glass with a trick or two that might really help a lot of guys. Both videos should be linked in our reference archives.
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Old 01-12-2019, 08:13 PM   #3
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Re: 48 window channel

Mr48, thank you for the response, and sorry for the confusion.

I have actually watched that video before, as well as another on installing the window channel. In one of them the window channel is cut off to fit the clip in the bottom of the window channel guide that is mounted inside the door.

One of the window channel guides has 2 screws that hold it in at the bottom, this one goes over the door latch.

I just installed Bear Claw latches and have 2 new window channel guides that I screwed in over the latch. When I screwed them in, I only have about 28.5" from the inside of the new window channel guide to the inside of the window channel guide that is welded inside the front of the door.

I measured the frame that goes around the window and it measured 28.5", which causes me to wonder if when the window channel is in place, IF the window will roll up and down.

I was hoping to get a small piece of the window channel to use to try and get a more accurate measurement to try and determine if the window is going to work with these new latches. The sales staff assures me they will, I'm just trying to check it before I finish work on the doors.
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