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Molding plastic parts - an experiment 444-544

There are a couple plastic parts for the PV444, that I have discovered are nearly impossible to find new. Fairly decent old ones are also rare.

I realize as I type this, someone might say OH- "so-and-so" has that part for "x-cents." grrrr. If this happens, well let's just say I'll be a little pink behind the ears.

We've been testing out our molding skills (what molding skills you say? well, we had none prior :P) , making a few parts in our spare time...
Such as this one:

Molded heater control plastic pieces

The color is a little tricky to get right. And the hardests thing seems to be getting all the air bubbles out of the piece. But if we lick these technical difficulties, we may have some pretty neat retro looking replacement parts soon.

The next peice to try will be the speedo plastic, Aiden & I (and one other who emailed me--can't remember who, now) are looking for. The problem is, all the old ones are yellowed. I did find a speedo shop in CA that SAID they were making one for someone else (I emailed them like 3 times, but they never really got back to me to say they were sucessful). Problem is, I think they wanted like $300 bucks for a whole new dash. I just need the plastic piece remade.






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posted by  someone claiming to be belinda  on Sat Oct 15 12:53 CST 2005 >


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