How to release glass from outside mirror???

I need to get an outside mirror chromed and need to remove the gl*** first (62 T-Bird). I imagine it is glued into place and was thinking of a heat gun or boiling water to get it soft enough to remove without ruining the O.E gl***.

Ideas?

 

Most are held in by the pressed down outside ring...that's usually the only thing that holds mirror in...however, I have seen some glued in with an ugly brown substance that gets hard and dries out...I'd take it to a gl*** shop and have them remove it, then have them cut a new piece for you...

R-

 

You would be better off buying a new, they're on e/bay all the time

 

if its glued, soak it in lacquer thinner.

common for corvette mirror heads to become loose from the neck. gotta remove the mirror to tighten em up.

 

I wish...this is an odd one, off a Sport Roadster.

 

I'll try that first.

Thanks!

 

Some have a snap ring along the edge that you can dig out, but I think that's mostly a Mopar thing. At the chrome shop I worked at, we broke out the glued in gl*** and the customer would have to have new gl*** cut to glue in. I don't know any good way of removing glued-in gl*** and saving it.

If you can buy the mirror new or NOS it's almost always cheaper than rechroming an original one. We would even tell our customers that, it was better to be honest and turn down work than it was to screw someone like that.

 

I have had new mirrors cut at a gl*** shop...

 

The gl*** shop wanted no part of it... They're the ones who suggested a heat gun.

 

Yeah...This car is 100% original except for the starter, though......

 

They must be supers***ous then...I've had two done that way at the gl*** shop close to me here in Denver...

I'd suggest finding another gl*** shop that isn't worried about breaking a mirror...guess money doesn't talk after all.

R-

 

you need to find a new gl*** shop!

 

What Squablow said, most old time shops break the gl***. And sometimes on a showcar mirror restoration, with the gl*** now gone, the plating/polishing company can now gently roll out the crimp that held the gl*** in.

 

Don't go to any of the chain big gl*** shops. The manager told me they're no longer allowed to cut and install gl*** in mirrors because all new gl*** needs to be the less reflective type that wont blind drivers if the light is reflected back towards them. WHAT????
After digesting this info and looking bewildered, the manager cut me a piece for free, and said, "I don't know what you're putting it in, or where it's going."

 

It's no problem REPLACING the gl***. Keeping such an often-looked-at part OEM is highly desirable.