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bigd1101 · 11-13-2018, 09:13 AM

My 28 windshield does not have any supports to keep it propped open nor does it look like it ever did and there are no apparent holes in the frame where it might have had some. It does swing out but there is no way to keep it in any out position. Not sure if I should add some or just live with it the way it is. With the top down lord knows, I get enough wind, without the windshield swung out...LOL! But I would like to make it stock again if there were supports at one time, but like I said, I don't see evidence of any on the frame.

Don

1928Mik · 11-13-2018, 09:31 AM

Mine doesn't either, but it doesn't bother me much. I don't know of supports available. When it's hot, at low speeds I push it out, and then at higher speeds I really don't need it and it gets pushed back by itself anyhow

Tom Wesenberg · 11-13-2018, 09:55 AM

My 28 Phaeton has original parts and the windshield will stay open. Repro cones don't fit and grip as well as original parts. I'd just cut a piece of wood or rubber hose about 4" to tuck in the bottom when you want it open. I'd never drill or weld something to the car.

bigd1101 · 11-13-2018, 02:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Tom Wesenberg

My 28 Phaeton has original parts and the windshield will stay open. Repro cones don't fit and grip as well as original parts. I'd just cut a piece of wood or rubber hose about 4" to tuck in the bottom when you want it open. I'd never drill or weld something to the car.

Yeah, it is no big deal as I said....just wondering what originally held it open? Cones??

Jim/GA · 11-13-2018, 03:14 PM

The studs on the windshield frame are too long and the wing nuts bottom out before the nuts tighten up to the stanchions.

Take the wing nuts off, one at a time, and add a washer or two under them. Both sides. Then put the windshield where you want it and tighten the wing nuts . Now it will stay.

Ta da!

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Tom Wesenberg · 11-14-2018, 12:14 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by bigd1101

Yeah, it is no big deal as I said....just wondering what originally held it open? Cones??

The 2 wing nuts tighten the inner and outer cones to grip the windshield and hold it open.

Dick Carne · 11-14-2018, 09:55 AM

Tennis balls will work too.

11-13-2018, 09:13 AM	#1
bigd1101 Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2018 Location: Ithaca Posts: 345	1928 phaeton windshield supports My 28 windshield does not have any supports to keep it propped open nor does it look like it ever did and there are no apparent holes in the frame where it might have had some. It does swing out but there is no way to keep it in any out position. Not sure if I should add some or just live with it the way it is. With the top down lord knows, I get enough wind, without the windshield swung out...LOL! But I would like to make it stock again if there were supports at one time, but like I said, I don't see evidence of any on the frame. Don

11-13-2018, 09:31 AM	#2
1928Mik Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2017 Location: Zanesville Ohio USA Posts: 267	Re: 1928 phaeton windshield supports Mine doesn't either, but it doesn't bother me much. I don't know of supports available. When it's hot, at low speeds I push it out, and then at higher speeds I really don't need it and it gets pushed back by itself anyhow __________________ 1928 Niagara Blue Phaeton 1972 Olds 442 Convertible 1979 MGB -Life's Too Short To Drive Boring Cars-

11-13-2018, 09:55 AM	#3
Tom Wesenberg Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Mpls, MN Posts: 27,582	Re: 1928 phaeton windshield supports My 28 Phaeton has original parts and the windshield will stay open. Repro cones don't fit and grip as well as original parts. I'd just cut a piece of wood or rubber hose about 4" to tuck in the bottom when you want it open. I'd never drill or weld something to the car.

11-13-2018, 03:14 PM	#5
Jim/GA Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Young Harris, GA Posts: 1,815	Re: 1928 phaeton windshield supports The studs on the windshield frame are too long and the wing nuts bottom out before the nuts tighten up to the stanchions. Take the wing nuts off, one at a time, and add a washer or two under them. Both sides. Then put the windshield where you want it and tighten the wing nuts . Now it will stay. Ta da! . __________________ Jim Cannon Former MAFCA Technical Director "Have a Model A day!"

11-14-2018, 09:55 AM	#7
Dick Carne Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Fayetteville, Georgia Posts: 467	Re: 1928 phaeton windshield supports Tennis balls will work too.