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#81
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The wood grain is a pain to remove. Every inch of it has adhesive. Took me about 4 hours with a real thin blade. I then sent the thing out to be metallized and then had to mask off the edges with petroleum jelly. Then spray black. Got about 20 hours in the thing. I did this on mine about 20 years ago and it is holding up well.
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70Z28 04B Norwood Forest Green-white Stripes Black DeLuxe Interior Owned since 1978 - First Car |
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I am going to try this out on my bezel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqZgAy6kRG0&t=60s
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#83
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I've got one of those pens, just haven't gotten around to trying it on anything.
Here's the one I got: https://www.amazon.com/Molotow-ONE4A...WG7T5S3R3RP2E5 Here's another vendor: https://alsacorp.com/ And a video of what appears to be magic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY0iNcApC8s I was going to try this stuff on the dash corner vents. 70's were one year only on the vents. Impossible to find NOS.
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70Z28 04B Norwood Forest Green-white Stripes Black DeLuxe Interior Owned since 1978 - First Car |
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I used a halogen lamp and a few pairs of sheetmetal pliers with the WIDE clamping area and pulled it over. Part of it was really good... the part I did after fixing the backing. I first tried to stretch the drivers side about 2 months ago, prior to straightening - then straightened it and then pulled it over on the pass side. It cover was a good inch short from I am going to get another screwed up pad and try a few things... If I had an oven large enough I would have heated the entire thing up to about 200 or so... I was thinking that in a black bag in the southern sun for a few hours would make the entire thing pliable. If I were going to do a couple I would weld up a jig to hold them in the correct position so they could be straightened and stretched.
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Some photos of the relaminating the cluster circuit board
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~JAG~ NCRS#65120 68 GTO HO 4 spd Alpine Blue /Parchment 2 owner car #21783 71 Corvette LT1 45k miles Orig paint - Brandshatch Green - National Top Flight - last known 71 LT1 built. 71 Corvette LT1 42k miles Original paint - Black - black leather - only black LT1 known to exist. NUMEROUS Lemans blue Camaros, Monza Red and Daytona Yellow Corvettes & a Chevelle or two... Survivors, restored cars, & other photos https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/myphotos |
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There was an entire corner and half of the screw hole which were missing... I taped up the wood grain and used 3M automix repair material to build up the area and worked it back down.
The lighter gray color is all replacement material
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~JAG~ NCRS#65120 68 GTO HO 4 spd Alpine Blue /Parchment 2 owner car #21783 71 Corvette LT1 45k miles Orig paint - Brandshatch Green - National Top Flight - last known 71 LT1 built. 71 Corvette LT1 42k miles Original paint - Black - black leather - only black LT1 known to exist. NUMEROUS Lemans blue Camaros, Monza Red and Daytona Yellow Corvettes & a Chevelle or two... Survivors, restored cars, & other photos https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/myphotos |
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McCune (05-25-2018) |
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HA I just picked up one of those at Hobby Lobby over the weekend.
Mine has a finer point with a metal collar half way up the writing tip... probably a 1 mm tip
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~JAG~ NCRS#65120 68 GTO HO 4 spd Alpine Blue /Parchment 2 owner car #21783 71 Corvette LT1 45k miles Orig paint - Brandshatch Green - National Top Flight - last known 71 LT1 built. 71 Corvette LT1 42k miles Original paint - Black - black leather - only black LT1 known to exist. NUMEROUS Lemans blue Camaros, Monza Red and Daytona Yellow Corvettes & a Chevelle or two... Survivors, restored cars, & other photos https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/myphotos |
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Nice work! I actually like the detail work better than the body work and engine stuff. It can be a challenge especially when you don't have many practice parts.
On the dash pad, did you flatten your or did you leave a bit of an arch? I didn't flatten mine completely as the dash on mine has some curve
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70Z28 04B Norwood Forest Green-white Stripes Black DeLuxe Interior Owned since 1978 - First Car |
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Pick up the bigger Molotow refill and save yourself some money.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MR2KER3...a-360766397241 Air brush it on in light coats and see how incredible it mirrors chrome. The amount of paint they put in those felt tip pens is ridiculously small. |
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IMHO it looks JUST LIKE vacuum metalized. especially when you are only seeing a small amount, it would be perfect for a chevelle gauge cluster. THE DASH PAD I realized after the first fitting about the bow on the edges - that I fixed. The air vents I took apart so I could tighten up the vent blades and then made a hand rivet tool from a pair of hole punchers to rivet them back together.
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~JAG~ NCRS#65120 68 GTO HO 4 spd Alpine Blue /Parchment 2 owner car #21783 71 Corvette LT1 45k miles Orig paint - Brandshatch Green - National Top Flight - last known 71 LT1 built. 71 Corvette LT1 42k miles Original paint - Black - black leather - only black LT1 known to exist. NUMEROUS Lemans blue Camaros, Monza Red and Daytona Yellow Corvettes & a Chevelle or two... Survivors, restored cars, & other photos https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/myphotos Last edited by firstgenaddict; 05-25-2018 at 01:10 AM. |
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