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Help anyone know how to do this

zippotzippot Posts: 2
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Hello folks My wifes greenhouse needs an automatic opener which I have bought, the window thats opens has a frame but the bottom static pane does not have a aliminium end only glass i am unable to attach the bracket to this.where can I buy or what can I use to make this possible your hopefully Dave

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  • SporophyteBoySporophyteBoy Posts: 118
    A photo would be handy Dave! All the openers I know need a glazing bar to fix to and act on. Trying to fix directly to glass is a recipe for disaster.
  • clarke.bruntclarke.brunt Posts: 215
    Something like two strips of wood sandwiching the edge of the glass, which the clamp (or whatever it is) of the opener can compress from both sides? There's such a variety of designs to openers: who knows whether it would be likely to end up in the correct position. Or, maybe a single cross-bar of wood somehow attached to the glazing bars on either side of the glass? As mentioned above, the force to open the window is transmitted through the clamp, but I'm imagining this window isn't very heavy (the ones on my greenhouse are 6 feet wide, very heavy, and have two openers on each).
  • zippotzippot Posts: 2
    that,s a great idea mine is the small type

  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    If the greenhouse has standard glazing bars with a centre slot for taking bolt heads, all you need is some aluminium angle (say, 20x20mm) cut to length, drilled with 6mm holes at each end and fixed above the 'bar-less' pane using two cropped-head greenhouse bolts.  You can then fix the opener to the centre of that new horizontal.
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
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