Sliding Bathroom Window Problem

[Great Eggstrications]

First Gen E19 - went to open the vertical slider bathroom window and the black aluminum extrusion lift / latch piece detached from the glass. It has a channel that the glass goes into, which has a U-shaped rubber grippy insert to grab the glass, so the glass isn’t inserted into a bare slippery aluminum channel.

Pushed the lift / latch piece down over and onto the glass, but then the top lip on the piece would bind under the lip on the fixed horizontal cross-piece of the frame - ergo window no open. Also, the rubber insert would double over on itself and prevent the glass from going all the way into the channel. The rubber insert isn’t glued into the channel, and it worked well to pull it out of the channel, have someone lift the glass from outside, push the insert down over the glass, and then push the lift / latch piece down over the rubber insert and glass, then blocking the window with something and pushing down from the inside to fully engage the glass into the channel.

Hopefully this hint might save someone a few minutes of goobering around figuring things out. Don’t know whether this is generally applicable to Escape bathroom windows. Will plan to periodically block the window and push down on the lift / latch piece.