Glazing

[Narrow Minded]

I'm in the middle of a coach restoration project at the moment and realized that I'm out of glazing material

I used to have some clear acetate sheet aquired from my pevious place of employment which was a good thickness and was easy to cut.
Since then I've only built kits which of course, contained the glazing material needed, so there hasn't been a problem.

What do you use / recommend

(Please include your pro's & cons and where you get it - and the cost - Ta!)

Many thanks in advance,
Greg

[Dr. Bond of the DVLR]

I use clear plasticard type material most used for model air plane construction. You can buy it in 0.5mm- 2mm thickness with a variety of thickness's in-between. It comes with opaque white protective layers which fooled me at first. It is brilliantly see through and the nice thickness makes it look like thin glass. I used it on my MOTY carriage.
I find that the glazing material that IP engineering use goes really blue after a few years!

[taliesin001]

I just use bits of clear plastic sheet from packaging, providing it's not the thin stuff which is rubbish. Cheap I know!

[cjallenby]

For sheer cheapness, plastics drink bottles of the 2L variety are quite good, readily available. The only draw backs being that, it must be throuroly washed and firmly clamped as it tends to spring back out of place before the glue has dried.

[MDLR]

Here's an idea that gives you glazing material FREE and keeps SWMBO happy, too!

Buy her a box of Ferrero Rocher (?spelling) chocolates. Give her the choccies (all right, perhaps pinch the odd one or two) and use the transparent box for glazing. It is much more rigid than most glazing materials so it is more easily broken, but it's FREE!

[Dr. Bond of the DVLR]

Not entirely free as you are forced to eat the chocolates first (what a drag...)