I must confess I don't do much rust repair down here in Florida, and
windshield areas are tricky.
I concede that the fiberglass POR method is most likely better for small and
restricted access areas like the windshield.
Thanks for sharing your techniques Frank.

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Frank Condelli
Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 7:01 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Windshield Frame Rust

In a message dated 13/08/2009 4:40:03 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
LISTSERV@GERRY.VANAGON.COM writes:

        MIG welder,  right  here in the shop, use it almost every day, no
problem.  BUT grinding down  the welds in the area of the windshield corners
where NEW metal is needed is not  fun and does not work as well as the
POR-15 and Fiberglas method.  So you  just welded in a small quarter sized
piece
of NEW metal to fill in the missing  metal in the corner of the windshield
frame.  The heat from welding just  burned off all the paint and
undercoating
on the inside of the frame where you  can't see.  What do you do about that
now ?  Well, I know how most  deal with it, they forget about it until the
customer is back with rust bubbling  out from under the windshield rubber.
NOW what do you do ?  Fix it  for free, make him pay again ?  My method has
no come backs, not yet  anyways.  Maybe before I retire I'll see one.