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Originally Posted by cajunfirehawk
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Todd, like me, you're probably going to have a huge collection of those windshield crank out/in mechanisms before you know it 😀
There was a guy in Massachusetts who rebuilt these many years ago. I think he charged about ~ $100.00. Then he passed away, and I thought Joe's Antique Auto Parts picked up his repair business. Then maybe 5 or so years ago Bob Drake came out with his repro version which I thought was quite nice and worked well. I wound up buying 3 of his when they were on sale at $75.00 each. Have one in my '35 fordor Avatar, and the other two will be used in my coupes.
The weakness in this crank mechanism is the gear teeth stripping, probably caused when folks insisted on trying to crank the windshield open while the vehicle was moving forward at relatively high speed. The wind force on that flat windshield is great enough to strip those gears unless you helped it along some from inside the vehicle.