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I want to paint my garage door, but the old brown rubber holding in the glass will clash with the color I'm thinking of. Is it possible to remove the rubber (and glass) and then replace it with a new color after painting?

Garage door is a basic Raynor metal panel door of presumably 80s-90s vintage.

  • Would rather not just paint over trim unless it really doesn't matter. Knowing how to replace the glass anyway would still be useful in case I accidentally break it in the future.
  • New garage door would be nice, but costs 10x as much as a gallon of nice enamel paint and will take three months to get here.
  • Trim appears to be some sort of old style that doesn't get used these days. Looks like newer doors tend use a sort of modular window unit that's held in with plastic trim, whereas this is just a pane of glass held in with rubber channel of some kind.

Picture below is a close up of one of the corners of the window pane from the interior. (Spiders will be removed before painting)

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That appears to be a "spline-channel" type of window fitment, where the room to insert the window-pane is created by having no spline in the channel, and then the window is held in place by inserting the spline into the channel.

Laeled detail of picture of window corner

So, to remove, you would pull the spline out of the channel (look for a cut end as the easy place to start pulling.) Might want to get a suction-cup on the glass first to reduce the odds of breakage.

I'm not finding that exact window trim type on a quick search, but it's probably out there somewhere from a specialist garage door parts supplier.

Ecnerwal
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My thoughts are that attempting to remove the glass may damage the glass and/or rubber molding. Why risk it?

It is not a big deal to mask the window with masking tape and then paint the molding. There are paints that will stick to rubber.

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