Originally Posted By: thejnicki
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Originally Posted By: bking
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yes, if not now it will be soon.
Originally Posted By: Jay Moge
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i agree with bruce, it’s not a matter of if it will condensate, but when.
Originally Posted By: kmcmahon
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when I first clicked on the photo, I couln’t figure out what you were referring to. It looked like decorative trim and I thought I was missing something…I guess I was!
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Originally Posted By: Jay Moge
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not trim. that’s the black ruber seal between double panes. looks like maybe the vaccum tank was too high at the factory and now with good sun and heat, the rubber is actualy getting sucked in. won’t be long now.
Originally Posted By: bkelly2
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Originally Posted By: Jay Moge
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Brian,
i’m not too sure on excactly how this particular window was made, but the replacement glass i buy is sealed with not only rubber, but a thin aluminum frame inside the panes as well. maybe a regonal thing, but if that window has the frame, i’d think that the rubber has seperated from it and would compromise the integritty of it. but if not then it may last awhile. who knows, i’d much rather recomend fixing, than not and then get the call that it is sweating between the panes. plus it looks ugly like that and it was not made that way.
Originally Posted By: dvalley
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Tim,
Are you sure that interior black material was not designed that way. (I think it was). It sure does look like it, by looking at the curvature on both angles....They're both the same style curve.
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Originally Posted By: thejnicki
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This only only occured at a few windows not all, I wasnt too concerned about it but I did address it on my report. Thanks All.
Originally Posted By: lewens
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Due to the fact that I sat through a ceu seminar yesterday given by Bob Brown of CATS he brought up the instance of this happening with a product called “swiggle seal”. This is what Jay is describing. Imbedded in the rubber is a thin aluminum corrugated strib that has been known to fail if the interior temp between the two pains of glass is excessive.
Larry
Originally Posted By: lewens
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Sorry about the blatant plug for CATS and the NACHI CARAVAN but the talk was very informative and I learned alot. I have been installing windows for years but I was surprised at how little I know about how the damn things work.
Larry
Originally Posted By: rcooke
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| Sorry about the blatant plug for CATS and the NACHI CARAVAN but the talk was very informative and I learned alot. I have been installing windows for years but I was surprised at how little I know about how the damn things work.
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Don't be sorry if they did a good job then tell all .
Glad to hear it went well .
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Originally Posted By: gbeaumont
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Hi to all,
just an observation, someone mentioned in this thread that double glazed windows have a vacumn between them. This is not the case, they have an inert gas between the panes (normally Argon) think about it, if you had two panes seperated by a vacumn, you would have a convex lens.
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Gerry
Originally Posted By: Jay Moge
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Gerry is right. when i order 30’‘x80’’ slider glass, my cheap a$$ boss tells them not to run them threw the argon chamber so they use “dehydrated air” instead. it’s a little cheaper and about 85% as efficiant as argon, but there is options. argon is best because it does not support any water content at all so it will never condensate as long as it stays sealed.