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WINDSHIELD CRACK REPAIR JOURNAL & NEWS

Ultra Bond's Windshield Crack Repair Journal

Welcome To Ultra Bond's take on windshield crack repair journal and industry news. As mentioned several times on our website, Ultra Bond is the leading authority when it comes to windshield crack repair knowledge, windshield crack repair tools, and windshield crack repair methods of restoring windshields to pre-factory loss condition. As time rolls on, car manufactures will come up with all sorts of new technology, and we are keeping an eye out for how this might affect you the installer and your business. Good or bad we will report on it and give our spin on how we will react.


Ultra Bond's Windshield Repair Journal is a library of the most accurate information that can be found on windshield repair. This is due to Ultra Bond and Richard Campfield's industry involvement, new technology and legal experiences. The average windshield repair technician can find information to help them solve problems and find success in this website.


Richard Campfield is a windshield repair industry leader who invented methods and chemical properties for repairing long cracks in windshields and the crack resistant windshield coatings. Ultra Bond is a Windshield Repair Manufacturer founded by Richard Campfield.


Richard Campfield was also the founder of Windshield Repair Magazine, a founder of the National Windshield Repair Association and author of The United States Windshield Repair Guidelines. He also served on the National Windshield Repair Association board of directors, Recommended Practices Committee and was the Long Crack Sub-Committee Chairman. He also serves on the National Glass Association's: Windshield Repair Certification Committee; National Windshield Repair Committee and; Repair of Laminated Auto Glass Standards committee.


Windshield Repair Journal is owned by Richard Campfield and all editorial content is the expressed opinion of Richard Campfield.

LATEST WINDSHIELD CRACK REPAIR JOURNAL ARTICLES.....


Windshield Crack Repair Penetration Test Results Stronger Than New...

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Date: Dec 27, 1993

Author: Richard Campfield

Category: Windshield Crack Repair Industry News

Ultra Bond is still the only windshield repair manufacturer that's lab tested and illustrates the strength of a windshield that has been repaired using our windshield repair resins, windshield repair tools and repair procedures. The purpose of this project was to determine the physical characteristics of the submitted repaired laminated glass by performing impact and penetration tests in accordance with ANSI/SAE Z26.1-1990 and flexural strength tests in 'accordance with ASTM C 158-84.

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Windshield Crack Repair Resins Flexural Strength Test....

Date: Dec 27, 1993

Author: Richard Campfield

Category: Windshield Crack Repair Industry News

Discover Ultra Bond's Windshield Repair Resin Strength Test with this lab test. This test illustrates the intense weight that was put on the repair 6 inch and 8 inch cracks. Forty, 10 inch long by 1 1/2 inch wide by 1/4 inch thick specimens were placed individually in an Instron Universal testing machine. Five specimens each identi fied .as "6", "8", and "cracked and unrepaired", were tested with the crack in tension (face-down) and five specimens of each sample were tested with the crack in compression (face-up).

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Explore The Official Windshield Crack Repair Guidlines....

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Date: March 8, 2013

Author: Richard Campfield

Category: Windshield Crack Repair Industry News

The windshield repair industry has existed for more than 20 years, since the original development of the vacuum pressure techniques developed in 1972. Repairing windshields is an economically, environmentally, and physically sound process that has the capability to virtually restore a windshield to its original condition. Recognition of the viability of windshield repair has resulted in an increasing number of methods and processes for repair, an increase in the number of technicians performing repairs an......

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Discovering Windshield Repair Facts Center Auto Safety....

Date: May 1, 2004

Author: Richard Campfield

Category: Windshield Crack Repair Industry News

For over two decades Windshield Replacement has been the number one insurance claim in the United States. Windshield Replacements have also caused injuries and deaths. With technology available that would prevent this problem, one would have to wonder why this position has not changed. A little research will s how anti-competitive politics within the glass...

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Ultra Bond Conducts Windshield Crack Repair Market Survey....

Date: May 1, 2007

Author: Richard Campfield

Category: Windshield Crack Repair Industry News

Predicting business is a skill every business wishes it had. One issue we face in predicting business in auto glass is we are in a business that is greatly affected by weather.Temperature can affect a stone causing a break when it hits the windshield or just bouncing off and doing nothing and it is temperature that causes a stone-break to crack-out. 

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NWRA President's Column: Richard Campfield's The Crystal Ball....

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Date: March 8, 2013

Author: Richard Campfield

Category: Windshield Crack Repair Journal

If you are in the windshield crack repair or windshield replacement business, your market is huge; so big that you and your competitors could not put a dent in it. To determine the number of potential jobs in your local market, first, contact the Department of Motor Vehicles to find out how many registered vehicles are in your country.


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Windshield Repair Magazine Archive

Windshield Repair Magazine was founded and published by Richard Campfield and was the windshield repair industries first industry-wide publication. This magazine came at a tumultuous time in the auto glass industry when windshield manufactures through the National Glass Association were attempting to abolish the windshield repair industry. This was because new repair capabilities and explosive growth was beginning to take a piece of their pie.



Campfield published this magazine for one year and then sold it to Levy Communications because Campfield being a competitor in the industry did not have the first amendment rights as does a neutral publisher and issues that came out were being followed by threats of lawsuits.

The Windshield Repair Explosion Sept-Oct 1994

Repair Instead of Replace..? Confronting Nov-Dec 1994

National Windshield Repair Association Founded Jan 1995

Windshield Repair Resin Lab Tests March-April 1995

Would You Replace? If You Had No Drill May-June 1995

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