[alfa] Re: Dash Caps

["gbconnolly" <gbconnolly@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the feedback Paul. Guess I'll consider one of those
covers that you velcro on or some other way to fill and paint the
cracks themselves. And yes, I was expecting a miracle -  I mean,
it's just human nature ... :-)

Cheers,

Greg.

P.S. Were Spiders and GTV's around THAT long ago?

>Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 20:06:51 -0800
>From: "Paul Irvine" <kcabpilot@domain.elided>
>Subject: [alfa] Dash Caps

>Long long long long time ago tried them on a Spider and a GTV

>Basically - they don't work. There's just too much heat exposure and
>transfer in that area. The expansion and contraction just causes it to
>buckle and rips it apart. There's no way that you can glue some thin cover
>onto the dash and expect it to work.

>I mean, it's just common physics - what do you expect, a miracle?

>Paul Irvine - Antioch CA
>Project Luscombe - http://home.earthlink.net/~vintageair/luscombe
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