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Ready for the front panel.


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This is a tricky manoeuvre due the multiple glass edges butting into the face panel.... easy does it.


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Nicely into position. No damage!!


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Perfect!


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Uh huh!
 
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One of the corner clamps.
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A slight adjustment was made to this panel before glueing.



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A close up of the silicone through the two base panels. This filled between the glasses all the way along with no gaps.

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A nice close up of the gap between the panes before filling. This sticks the base down to the plywood sheet as well.


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Large amounts of silicone. It passes throguth the glass panes and seals the plywood to the base as well.

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The joint is then filled and cleaned.

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Here you can see the joint filled with a surrounding thin layer of residual silicone.


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Care is taken to ensure the corners are well filled.


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Once filled, the alignment brace is placed.

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Just a thin collar of residual silicone.


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All four faces panes were placed and siliconed and the corner braces placed to align everything.


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Clean joint.


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OK, so for all those wondering, here we have one of the lower brace bars with the corner being bevelled to fit.


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8ft lower brace bar....


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Nicely bevelled corner.


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Silicone going on.


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Second row of silicone....


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3rd row.....


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and down it goes,,,,,


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pressed into place....


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Fill in the gaps.


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and a final heavy press!!


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and a clean up....



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Onto the next one....



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That's 3 down......



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and 4 and .....breathe!!!



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Nice work Mick!!!
 
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