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Curved windshield glass source

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  1. Zud, Sep 25, 2023
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    Center windshield on my 56 Neptunus has cracked and its not going to get smaller this winter.
    Original manufacturer is no longer available. Have plans from Neptunus just need someone willing to do a 1 time run of a curved piece of glass.
    Any ideas who might do this ???
  2. MBevins, Sep 25, 2023
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    Are you needing actual glass or acrylic?
  3. Pascal, Sep 25, 2023
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    Look up Advanced Marine Glass in FTL. They replaced a center windshield on an 84 Lazzara a few years ago. It was curved and worked with a manufacturer. Can’t find the phone number though
  4. Zud, Sep 25, 2023
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    Glass would be preferable it would match the rest of the windshield panels
  5. Zud, Sep 25, 2023
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    Thanks Pascal. Time for the monkey wrench
    Located in Erie Pa
  6. Capt Ralph, Sep 25, 2023
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    There may be a tint spec required. Hopefully Neptunus offered this also.
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  7. DOCKMASTER, Sep 25, 2023
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    I had two custom pieces (left and right) of 3/8 laminated safety glass bent about 6 years ago when we made my custom bridge enclosure. Company was in Canada. We bent plywood templates and shipped them to them and they matched to our templates. They came out great but were $$$$. If helpful I can look in my records and find the name of the company. But this would be a last resort I would think.
  8. rtrafford, Sep 26, 2023
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    Seems like there's a curved glass company in Pittsburg.....

    Edit, yep...

    Standard Bent Glass
    Butler, PA
    800-634-9252
  9. rtrafford, Sep 26, 2023
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  10. Perlmudder, Sep 26, 2023
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    You can try Lee Aerospace. They make most of the windshields for high performance offshore boats.

    https://leeaerospace.com/
  11. gr8trn, Sep 26, 2023
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    Procurve Glass Design, Inc. in PA made our new front pilot house glass.
    Our yard send the old one in as a template.
  12. Pascal, Sep 26, 2023
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    Procurve! That the name I was looking for, they did the center section for an 84 Lazzara. They had the original patterns
  13. Zud, Sep 27, 2023
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    well of course there will be a tint requirement...im sure it involves minerals from some long lost asteroid that only come around every 87000 years. Whose idea was it to buy a boat anyway????
  14. Zud, Sep 27, 2023
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    Standard Bent glass wont do it I already called them
  15. Zud, Sep 27, 2023
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    Well again the YF crew comes through !!! I have plenty of contacts to get through. Thanks everyone for the leads.
    Zud