>  JW> If you fill the ding with chip sealer right away the windshield
>  JW> usually won't crack. But numerous cracks are inevitable and
>  JW> insurance companies will only accept three windshield claims in your
>  JW> lifetime so you wait until you have so many cracks you can barely
>  JW> see out of the vehicle before getting a new one.
> This ding started out slightly over 1.5" across, star with 8 points.  My

I was unaware you had it before we set out on the Alcan.
Must have been too small for me to see, or maybe it was
the bug I kept trying to wash off at gas stations without
apparent success. So it was the pristine freeways of 
California that caused it? Note to all: it's a yard long 
now, and to someone who is less blase about such things it 
looks pretty ominous. Luckily I leave town soon.

> insurance company always implied they'd cover the glue treatment for a
chip up
> to the size of a coin which I've forgotten, that's what they always
asked me
> for the previous 7? times I've had it done.  I'll wait out the winter
and see
> what it looks like in the spring.  No sense getting it fixed before the
gravel
> season begins.  The car is now an official "Alaska car" since the
windshield is
> cracked.  Adds to the stealthyness, like the coating of bugs on the
front and

Funny thing was when the stupid camera focused on the
crack and got nothing else. I think I deleted twenty or
thirty of those. In the collection there are still a few
where the crack is prominent - and a couple where squashed
bug obscures part of the landscape as well.

I wonder if water gets into the crack whether there's
danger of more damage.

> dirt everywhere (but at least the dirt is pretty close to the paints
color).

The rains pretty did away with that dirt.

---------- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v7.05

      Title: CRACKED WHEAT-SUNFLOWER BREAD - PAN-1
 Categories: Breadmaker, Breads
   Servings:  1

           XKGR41A Don Fifield               1/4 c  Unsalted sunflower
seeds
  2 1/4 c  Bread Flour                              -(1 oz)
      1 tb Dry milk                            1 tb Honey
      1 ts Salt                                1 c  Water
      1 tb Butter                              1 ts Dry yeast
    1/4 c  Cracked wheat cereal (1 oz)

  Bake (Rapid) mode may be used. Place all ingredients (except liquids and
  yeast) inside the bread pan. Add liquid ingredients. Close cover and
place
  dry yeast into the yeast holder. Press start.

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