Installed the windshield today. Not too bad a job, drilling the Acrylic was the worst, worrying about cracking it to drill 3/8in holes for the mount grommets.

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First thing was to determine where to put the mounting hardware along the windshield. You have to take into consideration the stresses that will be applied.

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You have to support the windshield to drill the holes. Here I'm using 2x6 drops to support.

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I bought these Step Drills on a Amazon Prime day just for drilling Windshields and other Acrylic products.

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So very carefully using little pressure and a slow bit speed you get your first step of the bit through. Once it is through I block each side of the hole then finish drilling out to the size needed by the mounting hardware. Never screw a Acrylic windshield directly to your boat if you don't want it to crack later. There is very specific Acrylic mounting hardware and it needs to be used.

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I pictured the hardware earlier but you can see the windshield floats off its base being held up by the bottom grommets. When tightening the the mounting screws you just tighten till the acrylic touches the top of the bottom grommet. Well it looks like I didn't take a picture of the completed install from the front. I will upload one tomorrow.