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kiteman

kiteman


Cabin : Exec 002
Location : Hampshire
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PostSubject: Re: It's stripping time!   It's stripping time! - Page 10 EmptyThu May 02, 2013 10:55 pm

You can't have much left to do

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dazdub

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Cabin : Exec 012
Location : wales
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PostSubject: Re: It's stripping time!   It's stripping time! - Page 10 EmptyFri May 03, 2013 6:21 am

Looking good Smile
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Skytiger

Skytiger


Cabin : Exec 008
Location : Central Scotland
Posts : 1792
Join date : 2010-09-04

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PostSubject: Re: It's stripping time!   It's stripping time! - Page 10 EmptySun May 05, 2013 1:56 pm

kiteman wrote:
You can't have much left to do

Just the kevlar body panels, ejector seats and rotating number plates to fit now Rolling Eyes

Here's a wee teaser of the dash....
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Scooby

Scooby


Cabin : Flight 004
Location : Reading
Posts : 8831
Join date : 2010-12-12

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PostSubject: Re: It's stripping time!   It's stripping time! - Page 10 EmptyTue May 07, 2013 10:09 am

That looks like a nice black leather - shame the green stitching did not match Laughing Laughing Laughing

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Skytiger

Skytiger


Cabin : Exec 008
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PostSubject: Re: It's stripping time!   It's stripping time! - Page 10 EmptyFri May 10, 2013 6:52 pm

alien Rolling Eyes

The wife has always wanted a leather dashboard, at least the retrim was cheaper than an Aston!

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Skytiger

Skytiger


Cabin : Exec 008
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PostSubject: Re: It's stripping time!   It's stripping time! - Page 10 EmptyMon May 12, 2014 5:27 pm

I know a few have already done this mod, but I decided to follow and change my brazilian plastic grill for a classic bay metal one. It came in primer and I painted it gloss black.

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TimV
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Cabin : Flight 001
Location : Brighton, East Sussex U.K.
Posts : 14334
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PostSubject: Re: It's stripping time!   It's stripping time! - Page 10 EmptyMon May 12, 2014 5:35 pm

Hmmmm...... I'm not sure.

Whilst I like the fact that you can retrofy our beloved BraziBays, I'm rather keen on keeping things somewhat authentic. Otherwise I think straying into that area of trying to look Classic starts undermining the individuality of the Brazilian Kombi and fuels the 'replica' theories of the Germanic purists. But that's just me.  Basketball 

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MarcusH

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Cabin : Exec 031
Location : Sheffield
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PostSubject: Re: It's stripping time!   It's stripping time! - Page 10 EmptyMon May 12, 2014 5:39 pm

Can't wait to see the dashboard
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irishman

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Cabin : Exec 003
Location : Hove, East Sussex
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PostSubject: Re: It's stripping time!   It's stripping time! - Page 10 EmptyMon May 12, 2014 6:04 pm

I do tend to agree with Tim, that's why I never had the 'dub tub' on the front of my aqua, it is what it is, Brazilian and proud of it! Wink
' light the blue touch paper and retire'
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Cabin : Club
Location : West Essex
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PostSubject: Re: It's stripping time!   It's stripping time! - Page 10 EmptyMon May 12, 2014 6:19 pm

Stainless door mirrors?
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kiteman

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PostSubject: Re: It's stripping time!   It's stripping time! - Page 10 EmptyMon May 12, 2014 9:45 pm

Don't listen to them.

The plastic one doesn't seem to fit the style of yours

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Skytiger

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Cabin : Exec 008
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PostSubject: Re: It's stripping time!   It's stripping time! - Page 10 EmptyMon May 12, 2014 10:59 pm

That's the beauty about these buses you can adapt and change them to your personal taste, some will like it and others won't.

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PostSubject: Re: It's stripping time!   It's stripping time! - Page 10 EmptyMon May 12, 2014 11:02 pm

Skytiger wrote:
That's the beauty about these buses you can adapt and change them to your personal taste, some will like it and others won't.


Exactly, and if you change your mind, they're very easy to refresh.

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Skytiger

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PostSubject: Re: It's stripping time!   It's stripping time! - Page 10 EmptyMon May 12, 2014 11:12 pm

If you don't like this then the next mod will definately get the opinions flowing Wink 

More details to follow shortly Question
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PostSubject: Re: It's stripping time!   It's stripping time! - Page 10 EmptyMon May 12, 2014 11:15 pm

Skytiger wrote:
If you don't like this then the next mod will definately get the opinions flowing Wink 

More details to follow shortly Question

You're making Harryhornet very nervous about the Star Kombi award ST. How on earth is he going to keep up?!

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dazdub

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PostSubject: Re: It's stripping time!   It's stripping time! - Page 10 EmptyTue May 13, 2014 7:20 am

Looking good st I like a mix of old n new Smile
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PostSubject: Re: It's stripping time!   It's stripping time! - Page 10 EmptyTue May 13, 2014 10:00 am

I love you  "Beauty outside catches the eye, but real beauty lies within"  I love you
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Skytiger

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PostSubject: Re: It's stripping time!   It's stripping time! - Page 10 EmptyMon May 19, 2014 11:11 pm

Well as promised this is my VW Touareg rear crash beam and towing eye, because I'm lowered I didn't want a towing point hanging down from the front permanently (probably catch on a speed bump and flip the bus  Wink ).

So I will cut out the threaded part make something up to weld it onto Phileas and when I need to use it, just screw in the recovery towing eye.

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Skytiger

Skytiger


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PostSubject: Re: It's stripping time!   It's stripping time! - Page 10 EmptyTue May 20, 2014 6:58 pm

More tinkering, I got some of the parts to reinstate the fresh air vents that had been removed from Phileas during the RHD conversion, off a Classic bay from Ebay.  

This is the bracket which fits behind the vents inside my Kombi.
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There were 2 rods which came with the bunch of parts to connect the flaps but not one for the dash lever to the bracket 2nd pic.
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So I thought I would make up my own turnbuckles to replace the missing one, but then realised that the two supplied to fit the flaps were two different lengths so one wouldn't close at the same time with the other one.  So I will make three and can adjust them to suit.  Here are the parts(still to put them together).
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Here are my dash levers to fit onto my mechanism behind the dash.
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Now it's just a case of putting it all together  Rolling Eyes
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PostSubject: Re: It's stripping time!   It's stripping time! - Page 10 EmptyTue May 20, 2014 10:40 pm

looking good to retain the trophy!!! will it be ready ,we know you like the pressure Wink 
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Skytiger

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Fingers crossed, it'll be ready.
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Skytiger

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PostSubject: Re: It's stripping time!   It's stripping time! - Page 10 EmptySat Mar 14, 2015 9:36 pm

Well towing point isn't done yet neither is the turnbuckles but....

I have done the measurements to recalibrate my speedo since changing wheels I've found my speedo is out by about 5mph.  I am sending it off to Speedycables for recalibration.

One of the measurements is to count six revolutions of the road wheel and attach an arrow to end of the speedo cable and count how many times the arrow rotates.
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It also annoyed me that Danbury put a sticker over the original dial face for mph which in turn made the face hard to see when illuminated.
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So I found a classic late bay speedo(one on left) to swap the dial face with my original to give me mph but will illuminate correctly when lit.  The needles pull off, the original was quite easy the late bay one took a bit of wriggling to get off.
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They are different from the side.
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With both dial faces off I peeled the middle sticker off the original in order to use the "Distance in km" part to put over the word miles on the late bay one.
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All finished new dial face on original speedo with "Distance in km" sticker, just need to send it off for recalibration now Very Happy
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Nice work ST!

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michel_bonn

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Cabin : Club
Location : Germany, near Cologne- Bonn
Posts : 946
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PostSubject: Re: It's stripping time!   It's stripping time! - Page 10 EmptySun Mar 15, 2015 12:40 am

good work, nice

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Scooby

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Cabin : Flight 004
Location : Reading
Posts : 8831
Join date : 2010-12-12

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PostSubject: Re: It's stripping time!   It's stripping time! - Page 10 EmptyMon Mar 16, 2015 1:10 pm

Well done Cool

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