Cutting roof sheet with wire - GIF

[hemmjo]

When I was in high school, me and a buddy of mine used an old piece of bicycle brake cable to do this to the windshield on his car. We pushed the cable through the windshield adhesive, one was on the inside of the car and one was on the hood. Then we just pulled the cable back and forth, the whole way around the windshield to break the glue seam. I can't remember if we ended up getting the windshield out in one piece. If I were to hazard a guess I would say we did not.

I have removed lots of windshields from cars like that. I worked a couple years in an auto salvage yard. We all carried a roll of music wire, in our yard buggies. Very seldom broke one. It just take patience. Seemed like the only ones we ever broke were the "one of a kind" models where it was the only one we had in the yard. NEVER broke one if there were multiples available.