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Subject Topic: Front Window Marks Post Reply Post New Topic
06/7/2009 at 8:03pm
 Location: kings lynn. Norfolk
 Outfit: Abbey piper 212
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I have a Abbey Pipper with three windows at the front, the centre one opens. Where the fittings are there are lots of tiny marks (that look like small cracks). Some days theres not many other days they seem to spread.they are not on the outside nor the inside but seem to be between the two. Only the three front windows are like this.

Hope someone has an idea.

 



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06/7/2009 at 10:15pm
 Location: Watford
 Outfit: Bailey Ranger 510-4L
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This sounds like "stress crazing". The windows are a type of perspex which (like many plastics) over time lose flexibility (especially due to UV from sunlight) so crack more easily. It is also very slightly porous (if my 25 year old memories from university lectures are correct) and I think damp causes it to expand slightly so you can't see the cracks so much. The stress can be caused by use of the fittings but can also be induced in manufacture. I wouldn't worry about it unless they become so big that water leaks in and cuases annoying condensation, and after that (and a longer period of time) it might eventually fracture.


06/7/2009 at 10:37pm
 Location: kings lynn. Norfolk
 Outfit: Abbey piper 212
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 Thanks for your toughts i was thinking along the lines of stress, As it is round the fittings and only the front windows. Some time you can hardly see them.

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