Mounting suction cup lifters on windscreen or rear window

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Fig 1: Mounting Suction Cup Lifters On Windscreen Or Rear Window

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Secure position of lifting jacks as shown (view from outside):
1. Suction cup lifter with double spool
2. Suction cup lifter with single spool (as deflecting point)
3. Window
4. Cutting wire

NOTE: Optimum cutting is guaranteed when the cutting wire is at an acute angle to the adhesive bead. There is a risk of the cutting wire breaking if the angle is too obtuse.
The suction cup lifter (2) is used as the deflection point to achieve the corresponding angle.
Depending on the window glass version and the effort applied during cutting, it may be necessary to change the deflection point during cutting.
The suction cups without a spool can even be used as the deflection point.

Fig 2: Mounting Suction Cup Lifters On Windscreen Or Rear Window

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Preparatory work:

Cut off required cutting wire length:
Length approximately = 6 x window glass diagonal
The cutting wire loops must lie on top of each other in area (B).
They must not get caught up in each other. (Otherwise no possibility of cutting the adhesive bead/wire will break.)

Overlapping of cutting wire loops approx. 10 cm.

Distance from right window edge approx. 30 cm.