Regarding the windshield sealant (and just to complicate matters), I plan to install the full glass and wipers at least to test them, and I still might even make a top. I want to be able to switch from one windscreen to the other inside of an hour.
Leaning toward no sealant now on the plexi. But the thought I had was to run a bead of that black stuff Alan uses, then put a sheet of wax paper of that, then the leather gasket and the windshield and cinch 'em down.
Then un-cinch and take out the paper, then re-cinch.
The more I think about this idea the more my head hurts. This seems like a stupid way to waste about three hours and end up with something that's just that much more complicated and still leaks.
The other headache is now I'll have to get about a zillion little oval head phillips screws with nylocks to replace the rivets that would usually hold down the channel for the glass screen . . . and of course without the Alan black goop the real screen probably won't hold water . . . but with the goop changing screens would be somewhere between hard and impossible inside an hour?
So what I'd need for a sealant is maybe some kind of stuff that just peels off paint when your done?
Like...I dunno...Plastidip?