7 hours! That's the time that I took to fix 2 sliding windows rolling problem. The whole windows consists of 3 sliding window, i.e 3 movable compartments and apparently 2 out of 3 of it were unable to slide a.k.a roll. This problem already exists for roughly 12 months and I never got the mood or interest to do-it-yourself repairing until today when I was like kinda hand-itchy and forcefully "slide" one of the window and you know what happened? That window ran out from its' rail. What the heck! It's time for a nerd to rescue THE world again.
I got totally no prior experience on this sort of fixing exercise and thus I made the first mistake, which was taking the entire compartment out and put it on a table and did my Jeffersonian-style skeletal analysis. Geez.
Basically that compartment is made of a big piece of tinted glass where edges are surrounded by protective rubbers, with top and bottom fixed aluminium parts and removable left and right aluminium parts. There are 2 rollers under the compartment and one of it spoiled, so I get Mrs. Nerdy to go out and get a replacement while I continue my works.
O ya, by the way the compartment is kinda heavy, at least for a nerd standard.
Lesson learned #1: If you just need to fix the rolling problem caused by roller out-of-sync from its rail, do not remove the entire compartment.
Mrs. Nerdy came back with a new roller compartment (Tiny accessory. Shouldn't cost a bomb I guess) and now my job is to put all the things back in place.
I tighten all the nuts and movable parts on the compartment and tried to put the compartment back to its' original location. Hit another bumper. No extra space for me to "squeeze" the compartment in. Apparently the height of the left and right movable parts are taller the height above the rail, thus no way to put it in with these parts attached.
Lesson learned #2: Don't attach the left and right parts first. Make sure you can put the compartment back to its' rail, then you can attach the parts.
When everything seems fine and I'm gonna to proceed to the final chapter. Shoot. the roller part was misaligned with the holes for screwing the nut between the bottom part and the side movable part. Getting frustrated here. I tried many ways to align them but yet failed miserably and Mrs. Nerdy starting to get impatient and "threaten"
to get external helps from so-called professional (Ya right).
Finally managed to do the alignment by using a steel wire and some hardware to maintain the constant height for the alignment.
Lesson learned #3: Need a better way to do the parts alignment. I'm curious how those seasoned repairer do this task.
By the way, there is a screw on the roller and you shouldn't tighten it at first. Do the installment first then you can tighten it to suit your window rail.
Lesson learned #4: Tighten the roller's screw after the installation.
Yeah. I installed the first compartment and started the works for the second one. The job gets easier once you got some experiences from the first one.
Yeah again. I installed the second one.
And shoot, I unwillingly yelled. There is sequence to follow when installing the compartments due to the fact the the compartments come with metal hook to lock each other when you close the entire windows. Geez.
Lesson learned #5: Check compartment installment sequences before do anything.
Hey, I don't have the comprehensive administration guide to study. So what.
As a workaround, you can temporarily remove one movable part of the affected compartment, arrange them properly and put back the part.
Done. Everything is in sequence and ROLL.
Lastly, make sure that when you close all the compartments, the intended locks actually work. For my case, some how the lock parts were misaligned, thus unable to lock one of the compartment. This is due to the fact that the rubbers enclosed the edges of the compartments were not properly adhesive to the glass.
Easy workaround. Take a hammer and knock on the sides of the compartments until the desired spaces are produced.
Lesson learned #6: You need a hammer.
Phew. What a day.
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