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November 4, 2004: Well, I've been innundated with helpful suggestions about the windshield!
Thank you everyone. There's a lot of information and a lot of interest in how to accomplish this. After talking to my local fabrication shop, I'll try annealing the aluminum several times before attempting to bend it and letting it air cool. I'll put a 1/16" shim in between the plywood and the channel to take up a little bit of slop that's letting it kink inwards. Once I've tried the bend and if it kinks again, I have been given a set of instructions on the best way to "tuck" the channel back flat again. Right now the channel is cooling down from the initial annealing attempt...

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