What to do in a situation where unexpectedly in the windshield flew a stone, and it became ruled? In this situation, would you urgently go to the nearest service center or repair shop for expensive repair or still decided to try to replace the glass on our own forces?

Damage to windshield

If you have decided to fix the crack in the windshield yourself, then in this article we will present, what materials and which tool you will be needed for repair and how to do it in all the rules.

Let's clarify with you, what damage, the names can be a lot, you can repair on your own, without replacing the windshield:

Skoli.

If you find a chill on the windshield, then it is necessary to eliminate it urgently.

Otherwise, there will be a deep crack on your glass and there will be a replacement of windshield.

Simple cracks.

These cracks arise as a result of frequent temperature difference or improper warm-up of the machine, as well as with an enhanced temperature difference outside and inside the cabin.

Branched cracks.

From this type of cracks to get rid of very difficult.

If the branched crack is not removed on time, the crack at any time can turn into a deep one. The method of removing the deep crack was described by us above.

Easy.

Easy are formed due to rough mechanical impact. Glass recovery is not subject to.

Windshield repair, glass repair tool

So, for independent repair of windshield, you will need the following consumables and equipment:

• Photopolymer glue. The glue is necessary for you in order to flush the crack on the windshield or any other glass surface. After applying the photopolymer glue, you will not see its traces on the glass, as it has a very large indicator of transparency and reflection. Photopolymer frozen when exposed to ultraviolet rays. The bonding time of objects ranges from fifteen minutes with the UV lamp and up to forty-five minutes with natural light.

• Injector for glue. For the most accurate application of the photopolymer on the damaged glass surface use the injector. It can be disposable - plastic and reusable - metallic. In any case, it is recommended to acquire a metal injector.

• Electric drill. The drill is required not only for processing chips and cracks on the glass, but also to eliminate the possibility of increasing the crack, and also allows you to get rid of extra voltage on the glass.

• Ultraviolet lamp for solidification of the photopolymer.

• Scraiber, which allows you to carefully clean the edges of the crack and the surface itself.
• Applicators. Help attach the injector to the windshield.
• Napkins and liquid will be needed to remove moisture and dirt.
• The pump produces purification of the edge of the crack from dust and dirt.

So we smoothly approached the repair of windshield. After the preparation of all working tools and materials proceed to work.

Repair of chips and cracks on the windshield

• At first, using the pump, clean the cracked itself, as well as its edges from pollution and dust. The more carefully you clean the surface, the higher the quality of your work.
• We will try to remove the stress from the windshield. This is necessary so that the crack does not become even more. For this, the electric drill is drilled through a hole about 2 mm in the direction of the crack expansion. Then we try to gently press on the crack, bringing it to the end-to-end hole. The crack is fixed.
• Clean the edges of the crack and its area with the help of scrajber. Clean with liquid and flutter with wipes area near the crack and let him dry.

• Special photopolymer glue is prepare and divorced according to the instructions. Do not forget to check its shelf life.
• As an injection support, I will install a self-adhesive small circle - bridge. In order for our bridge to be steadily attached to the glass, it is necessary to lubricate the suction board with a vaseline and install the bridge right above the crack.

• Prepare an injector to further use. The piston is lowered down, pulling the glands, pour a couple of drops into the injector. Then the piston, we will raise the glue to the top of the cylinder and put on the gland. We set the injector with glue to the bridge using applicators. It is necessary that the center of the cracks coincide with the center of the injector. And now evenly fill in glue to the crack itself. We raise the piston for a couple of minutes and put it down again. Remember! The injector is located correctly if it is parallel to the windshield.
• By filling with a fracture with glue, remove the bridge and injector.

• We install over a crack ultraviolet lamp for three minutes to set glue. Do not forget that with natural lighting the gluing process increases by 2 times.

Polishing windshield

After the full pouring of the photopolymer will begin the last stage of the windshield. To do this, we need a special polyrol for glass. We shake the polyrolol and drive a drop into the cracked place and polish the glass.

Following this algorithm of work, you can easily exercise expensive repair of your car.