Glass has arrived at the various studios that will be working on it. Panels are placed on lightboxes so that rubbings can be made, insuring a full record for panel reassembly.
Panels are then disassembled. At left, A shows a whole lead came. Cames at B have had the flanges removed, leaving the heart (the thin bright stripe in the middle) and putty (tan stripes on either side of the heart). At C, the putty is gone, leaving only the heart. At D, the glass has been lifted out, revealing the flange on the other side.
Once the glass has been removed from the cames, it is wetted and left to sit for about 15 minutes.
Putty can then be carefully scraped from the glass using a razor blade.The work done at the original installation of these windows seems to have varied in its quality. In places the putty seems to have been poorly mixed. Some of the traceries were installed with their meeting joints upside down, so that they caught rainwater, rather than shedding it. Below you can see the front and back of a tracery kite, which appears to have been broken during installation and then badly patched with sealant.
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