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kman
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 Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2018 3:59 am Post subject: Re: Bring out your dead - Kman 71 vert build |
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My thread has gone to the photobucket dogs. The Samba pic loading didn't work for a couple sessions and I had to resort to photobucket a couple times. I hope to fix this in the near future.
Meanwhile, I've been able to drive it to work on occasion now that the salt has been washed off the road.
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djkeev
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kman
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| Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2018 5:50 pm Post subject: Re: Bring out your dead - Kman 71 vert build |
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Wow Kman!!
I hadn't seen this thread before, very good work, very inspiring.
I like your "can do" attitude!
What is wrong with the dash? I see you welded it and painted it. I plan to do likewise but if there is a blunder that I can avoid........
Need something? Well just make it!
Is it broken? Well just Fix it!
On the bad photo links, because of a finite editing window, if you let me know what photos go where I can pull out the photobucket links and put in the proper thesamba links.
Dave |
Thanks. I was able to find and replace all of the ghia related info (mostly pages 2-4) so I consider this thread fixed. I like how the dash came out. It was one of the easier things to to do. Plastic wood doesn't do it for me. I need to take off the dashpad at some point and redo that. I think I can do a much better job now.
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kman
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| Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2018 4:40 am Post subject: Re: Bring out your dead - Kman 71 vert build |
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| djkeev wrote: |
Ah!
The dash PAD............
I plan on recovering mine.
I did my Vanagon dash and it came out great!
Expanding foam (low rate) and Gorilla Glue are my friends. Actually Girilla Glue seems to be the same basic formulation as Expanding Foam.
I rebuilt my dash pad base, got a quart of High temperature Contact cement designed for air craft interiors (makes normal contact cement seem like garbage) and using a heat gun over laid vinyl.
Yes, it took awhile but well worth the investment. Dave |
We are on to the same tricks. 🙂 If you coat an area with gorilla glue and mist it with water it expands and fills nicely. You can then sand it down with ease. And I recently got turned on to high temp contact cement repairing things that routinely go through an autoclave
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kman
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| Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2022 4:14 am Post subject: Re: Bring out your dead - Kman 71 vert build |
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Dusted her off and brought her out for and early spring fill-up and beer run.
Recent additions last year were a new dash pad, fuel tank and LED headlights. Also sorted out some electrical gremlins.
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Basketcase
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| Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2022 4:22 am Post subject: Re: Bring out your dead - Kman 71 vert build |
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Beautiful! almost ready to cruise here.
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Figment
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| Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2022 6:54 am Post subject: Re: Bring out your dead - Kman 71 vert build |
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ooooh, that's nice. I really should do LED lights, my eyes aren't getting any younger.
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kman
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Basketcase
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| Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2022 5:38 am Post subject: Re: Bring out your dead - Kman 71 vert build |
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Beautiful!
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