My son runs a window tinting business and does commecial and military
contracts. On one recent military contract he installed bomb-blast proof
window tint on some  military buildings. The plastic film that was used
will stop a 45 caliber bullet fired from ten feet away. Thg glass under
the film will fracture, but the film - like all tint films - is glued to
the surface of the glass and holds the glass together to prevent glass
shards from becoming shrapnel and flying  everywhere  hurting people and
causing other damage. To prevent the entire pane of glass from coming
out of the frame during a blast and flying across a room like a frisbie
and cutting off heads, the edges of the tint are sealed to the window
frame with a 3M industrial tape that has a glue strength and fabric
strength like nothing I have ever seen. Amazing stuff!!! This tape in
this application is two inches wide - 1 inch over the tint film, and one
inch over the window frame. It is heated to 400 degrees to trigger
curing. Once cured, the window frame, the tape and the tint are all like
one continuous piece, and a blast would virtually have to blow the
window frame out of the wall to  damage the area on the opposite side of
the glass. The main point being though, to control flying glass.

So, anyone see any application for this tape on the Vanagons?

Regards,

John Rodgers
88 GL Driver