Removing glass. Everything says to use Piano Wire. Ace Hardware local store "used to carry it"....

Where do you buy Piano Wire?

Thanks

Fly,
Any good hobby shop that sells materials for building radio control airplanes should have it.

I've done it with some heavy fishing line.

Guitar strings will work as well.

Any glass shop should be able to sell you some.
It's a braided wire that really helps with the cutting.

I've used .035 welding wire and it worked fine. SAFETY TIP! When useing wire wrap around a dowel or some type of handle. NEVER wrap it around your hand or fingers!

We use abrasive wire and handles for removal. You can also use a long handled razor knife. They are made by a auto glass removal tool company called Equalizer. I will get their phone number tomorrow and post it.

I use some kind of thin wire I get at the hdw store. It keeps breaking and I just replace it and keep going. Next time I'll try the braided stuff. Anyway, I use a couple of 3/4" dia wood dowels and drill a small hole in the middle of each. I pass the wire through the hole and wrap it a few turns around a wood screw. I tighten the screw down on the wire and it's ready to go. I leave one end of the wire free and poke a hole in the butyl seal with an ice pick. Pass the wire through the hole and attach it to the second dowel. Use one person on the other end and start sawing. I put masking tape on adjacent surfaces to protect them from the wire.

I also used guitar strings. I was thinking about buying this:
http://www.autotoolmart.com/cgi-bin/ams/shopzone30.cgi/st_prod.html?p_prodid=3861&p_catid=21&sid=fg1x10lrEsGCSk-50103174517.56

We used safety wire (the stuff you wire nuts and bolts with), it broke once but since I had a big roll it wasn't a big deal.

I did it with a 1" putty knife and a propane torch. Just worked around slowly, occasionally reheating the knife. Not the preferred method, but I did it by myself using what I had in the garage without breaking the glass. I wasn't worried about cracking since it was scratched from a bad wiper anyway. Good luck!

Parts stores have a tool with a L shaped blade that works good. also use guitar strings. If you are going to do several get a heated knife. HTH

If your reusing the window always use wire,a little chip on the edge of glass over time can become a crack across your glass!!Wire is the safest way, helps to have a friend on the inside also. Mike

Equalizer Industries
1-800-334-1334
www.equalizer.com (http://www.equalizer.com)

These folks make industrial automotive glass removal tools. We have several types of wire from them, as well as heated knives, and other specialty tools.

The old saying applies; you get what you pay for. Buy the right tool the first time, it's cheaper than buying it the second time around. :D

Crankshaft

I went to the local music shop. I bought 3 just incase they break but I got the front and back out using only 1. They were $1.00 each.