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Mirror glass slip-sliding away

HossHoss
This has been going on for a while so I went out to Stoddards to price a new mirror for the Red Man (cabin mirror, not external) and discovered that from this source the price was almost $100. Whoa Nelly!

This is what is happening: The glass has started to separate from the frame; whatever the soft pliable goop is that holds the glass in place isn't holding any more. Gravity seems to be causing the goop to sag. It can be pushed back into place, but then it slowly oozes back out and down again. Has anybody experienced this and is there a trick to fix it without having to replace the darn thing? I thought about a little epoxy on the bottom edge and GENTLY clamping it in place, but I am afraid of breaking the glass.
Hoss
ps. apologies to Paul Simon

 

 

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HossHoss
This has been going on for a while so I went out to Stoddards to price a new mirror for the Red Man (cabin mirror, not external) and discovered that from this source the price was almost $100. Whoa Nelly!

This is what is happening: The glass has started to separate from the frame; whatever the soft pliable goop is that holds the glass in place isn't holding any more. Gravity seems to be causing the goop to sag. It can be pushed back into place, but then it slowly oozes back out and down again. Has anybody experienced this and is there a trick to fix it without having to replace the darn thing? I thought about a little epoxy on the bottom edge and GENTLY clamping it in place, but I am afraid of breaking the glass.
Hoss
ps. apologies to Paul Simon
FM Former Member
Use GOOP . . .

http://www.amazinggoop.com/amazinggoop/index.html

Auto GOOP, Plumber's GOOP, Household GOOP, it's all the same and works PISSA ! ! ! !

Get it anywhere, holds like iron and lasts forever. Good for holding shift knobs in place, mirrors, dash trim, emblems, repairs rips in seats, holds and repairs carpets, anything and everything that you can think of, this stuff will fix it, hold it firm and forever.

It squeezes out of the tube like clear silicone caulk and hardens like plastic.

Really,

T
FM Former Member
It's probably the same stuff as TC mentioned above, but really, any type of silicone ADHESIVE would probably work. It somes in clear or black. I'd use clear. It's a good adhesive and it never really drys out or oozes away. In addition, it would add a bit of a vibration isolation between the glass and the mirror mount. The trick might be to creatively make a device to squirt it into the small crevice?
Jim KellyJim Kelly2013 SAS coupe-Fiji
There are several products available for gluing mirrors specifically: Mirror Mate, Mirror Helper, etc. from Dow Corning, Selley's and others. Even buying the smallest tube available may cost as much as the repair from your local glass shop. When I do this type of repair myself, I can't bear to throw out the perfectly good remainder of precious material, and no one I know needs this stuff, so it sits in my cabinet for 5 years to really harden up. Only then can I heave it. Good luck.
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