Re: [BaadAssGremlins] One Step Foward & Two Steps Back

[Davis Martin <martin-davis@xxxx>]

Doc,

 Things are atleast moving along. Look back at how far you have come. it was only months ago that you didn't even have the hornet to fix up. I think it was good therapy for you for the winter. Thanks for the offer on the dash part but I ended up using the one that was in the car. It has a broken tab where the top right screw it so I installed the gauges where the top vent opening is. I have a nice one to use if I ever change the location.

 Like I said beore Shite happens look at what happened to me yesterday. I came so far actually got it running and it took me a giant step back.

 All I can do is save my money and shrug my shoulders.

 Hope your haveing a good morning

 Davis

AMC74HORNET@xxxx wrote:

I know but it is fustrating and is putting my scheduel behind. I was
hopeing to get all the dash parts in by mid month. Now I have an extra
weeks worth of work to do besides starting a week late so now I am 2
weeks behind. The main probllem is now with paint cureing once
everything is painted. Enamel is a slow cureig paint. The smaller parts
I bake in a dehydrator and even enamel is cured in 2-3 days tops. While
the dash's paint cures I have a lot of small interior plastic parts to
repair and dye black but I want to see some progress on the car itself
and also need the storage space the dash and all the related parts are
takeing up in the house. I just spent 2 1/2 hours working on the dash
and will continue the rest of the day. By tonight all the repairs and
additional  re-enforcement will be done and then it is off to the
primeing and painting. Oh well brake over time to go back to work. I ran
all my errands and got my shot at the Dr's yesterday so I have the whole
day today to whip the dash frame into shape. I hope the wife goes out
with her girlfriend this afternoon so I can work in peace while I watch
the Bush Race from Texas.Good luck with the gauge panel. If you want I
have a butchered center gauge panel that was chopped up to install an
aftermarket radio you can have. Other than the chopped out part for the
radio the only other problem is the very top above the A/C duct is
broken off but I have the piece. This plastic is glueable with the
Plastic Welding System epoxy.
"Doc"



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To: BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
From: Davis Martin
Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2004 04:27:20 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: [BaadAssGremlins] One Step Foward & Two Steps Back

Doc,

 I have two words for ya. SHITE HAPPENS :o)>  I went to install my water temp and oil gauges lastnight and found out I bought the wrong size bezel panel. Now this mornin I have to figure another way to mount them. I didn't want to hack up any of the dash but now I am gonna see what I can do with the extra radio dash center piece I have. Always good to have extra parts.

 Davis

AMC74HORNET@xxxx wrote:

My test with the plastic model stripper on the top of the dash to bring
the color back was a dismal failure brough on by stupidity on my part by
not following one of my own rules. Test a product in a spot not seen. I
couldn't do it so I tested it and I had a half a dozen small cracks
develop in the test area. I knew that sometimes on old plastic models
this stripper has a tendency to make old plastic that is britle crack
but figured that since the dash is 2-3 times the thickness of a model
body I was ok. No such luck!!!! The cracks were frustrateing but a
blessing in disguise. They developed in an area where on the underneath
of the dash I had glued the 3/4X34 plexiglass bar to remove a bit of
warpage. I got most of it out but it was under tension. I planned on
installing the frame in the car and with the hot weaher comeing not
tightenin g all the top dash screws tight all at once. I figured at the
end of each hot day after sitting in the sun and the dash hot I would
tighten the screws a little utill they were tight and the dash would not
be under tension where I glued the plexiglass. With the cracking from
the stripper experiment most of the tension is now gone on  that side
and the dash is straighter now. Now I am in the process of repairing the
cracks with my Plastic Welding System Glue backed up with model sheet
plastic on the underside of the dash. I will simulate the vinal grain in
the crack repair on the visible top side of the dash with my electric
tool engraver. I an also going to experiment with some JB Weld epoxy on
plastic that I bought yesterday. On an old trashed plastic part interior
part. Someone said they used it for such a repair on the AMX files. A
mid April installation of the dash has now been pushed to the end of the
month due to this !@#$%^&* s tupid setback for which I have no one to
blame but myself.
"Doc"