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Re: DIY windshield de-icing solution?
Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
Sun, 9 Feb 2014 16:37:14 -0800
...Is it not cavalier to just dump a solvent on the windshield??? "A scraper with a metal edge will help a lot with the...
Availability of replacement dish drainers?
Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:33:33 -0700
...A paint scraper would get globbed up in a second, with thick strands of this substance between the lifted scraper and the stuff remaining...
Re: grey beltline decal stripe
Historical mailing list
Sat, 6 Mar 2004 13:20:56 EST
...Time, insyncro@hotmail.com writes: > Has anyone had any luck removing the stripe? a hairdryer, a credit card as a "scraper" , and patience. chris
Re: Removing old window tint film
Historical mailing list - Gnarlodious
Mon, 4 Feb 2002 08:27:52 -0700
Entity Vanagon Man spoke thus: > I want to remove the window tint film Razor blade scraper. Use a vacuum to clean it up immediately...
best method/chemical/tool to remove very old pinstripe material
Historical mailing list - Bobby Brown
Mon, 15 Feb 2010 09:49:30 -0500
Fellow listees, What best experience do you have removing the old pinstriping? Goo Gone & plastic scraper? Mineral Spirits? Razor blade? Rubber eraser wheel on...
Re: '81 Vanagon - Front Window Scrapers
Historical mailing list - Geoffrey Toye
Fri, 25 Jun 2021 21:48:35 -0400
...Toye <geoffreytoye@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi All, installing new outside window scrapers on the '81 Vanagon and the >> new ones are about 1/2...
Re: scraping glue in the sun
Historical mailing list - Stephen Grisanti
Tue, 2 Aug 2011 08:10:51 -0700
...apply the new roofing material.� Propane torch, gloves, a variety of scrapers and a wire wheel on a 1/2' drill are the tools...
Re: Front door window rubbers
Historical mailing list - John Bange
Wed, 10 Aug 2005 15:09:59 -0700
...On the left I bought new ones (I somehow broke one taking the scrapers off) and they seemed "springier". I don't see much...
Re: DIY windshield de-icing solution?
Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
Sun, 9 Feb 2014 15:18:45 -0800
...On 02/09/2014 01:14 PM, Angus Gordon wrote: > > Dear Rocket J, > > Listen to your ice scraper. Go back to the warm indoors...
Oil fill tube gasket removal
Historical mailing list - Giasson, Pascal (DNR/MRN)
Thu, 31 May 2007 09:31:45 -0300
Does anyone have any tips on removing the oil fill tube gasket from the case? I've been trying with scrapers but there must...
Re: An Engine Conversion Begins-Mixed Emotions! - 3A Comment
Historical mailing list - Frank Grunthaner
Tue, 17 Sep 2013 15:08:32 -0400
Jim, I detailed the amount of material to be removed from the VW windage tray in the series of posts on the oil scraper...
Re: Replacing roll up window scrapers & channels
Historical mailing list - The Bus Depot
Fri, 3 May 2013 13:13:13 -0400
> I think that most of the onliune vendors carry the replacements for these. Rubber diagram here: http://www.busdepot.com/details/vanagonrubber/ - Ron Salmon...
Re: DIY windshield de-icing solution?
Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
Sun, 9 Feb 2014 17:19:02 -0600
---- Angus Gordon <birdworks@GMAIL.COM> wrote: > Dear Rocket J, > > Listen to your ice scraper. Go back to the warm indoors and apply the alcohol...
Re: scraping glue in the sun
Historical mailing list - ralph meyermann
Mon, 1 Aug 2011 19:07:28 -0600
...glue from the plywood, I found that using a sharp paint scraper to remove most of the bubblegum-like glue, followed by a random...
Re: Door window scrapers
Historical mailing list - Michael Sullivan
Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:46:17 -0500
...com> wrote: >> >> > Vannuts, >> > >> > Anybody know the part number for the window scrapers [? Rubber strips at >> > the bottom of the front door windows that seal...
tool identification - done!
Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
Mon, 17 Feb 2003 12:10:56 -0800
...I think the correct ID is that it is a "bearing scraper". Now I am off to touch up the bed on my Bridgeport...
Re: scraping glue in the sun
Historical mailing list - BenT Syncro
Mon, 1 Aug 2011 18:08:10 -0700
...glue from the plywood, I found that using a sharp paint scraper to remove most of the bubblegum-like glue, followed by a random...
Re: Replacing roll up window scrapers & channels
Historical mailing list - Stephen Grisanti
Fri, 3 May 2013 09:34:30 -0700
...Replacing roll up window scrapers & channels To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Date: Friday, May 3, 2013, 11:18 AM Anyone done this?� Mine are...
Re: subject Re: Door window scrapers
Historical mailing list - Mike Miller
Fri, 25 Jun 2010 09:07:56 -0700
...com> wrote: >> >>> Vannuts, >>> >>> Anybody know the part number for the window scrapers [? Rubber strips at >>> the bottom of the front door windows that seal...
Re: Sea to Shining Sea In a Graham Paige Mdl. 57 Blue Streak or a 365 GTB/4
Historical mailing list - BJ Feddish
Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:06:38 -0400
...when you realize that the plastic lid on a cassette tale box made the world's best ice scraper on that flat windshield. ;) Bryan
Re: new tires
Historical mailing list - Hector Zapata
Mon, 14 May 2001 22:42:33 -0400
...I've been to puerto Rico and Pep Boys , but never at the same >time..., and never with an ice scraper. Guayama Thanks > >Matt...
Re: Seals
Historical mailing list - Jay & Kim Schmidt
Thu, 23 Sep 1999 11:19:24 -0500
...As I recall, the scrapers were sold as well. Jay >Hello all vendors, > >Do any of you have access to the seals that the...
Re: scraping glue in the sun
Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
Tue, 2 Aug 2011 08:41:43 -0700
...Propane torch, gloves, a variety of scrapers and a wire wheel on a 1/2' drill are the tools of choice. All while recovering...
Re: Power window Motor
Historical mailing list - Bob Wing
Thu, 4 Aug 2011 22:42:14 -0400
...If your bottom window scrapers are old and brittle, water gets to the top of the motor and rusts the shaft in the bearing...
total seal ring end gap on 95mm pistons?
Historical mailing list - Damon Campbell
Sun, 3 Aug 2003 16:23:24 -0700
...upper: .035" (bentley)/ .020" (T.S.) middle: .035" (bentley)/ .013" (T.S.) oil scraper: .037" (bentley)/ .015 min. (T.S.) Now so far, the...
Re: Front door window rubbers
Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
Fri, 12 Aug 2005 06:17:36 EDT
...When you say just remove the bottom two seal, do you mean the two inner and outer scrapers? If yes how do you do...
Re: '90 Window regulator motor stuck
Historical mailing list - Bob Wing
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 08:14:58 -0400
...Time for new outside window scraper. I have rebuilt my motors, but the water problem just caused the motor problem to recur. Bob Wing...
Re: Availability of replacement dish drainers?
Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:44:01 -0700
...A paint > scraper would get globbed up in a second, with thick strands of this > substance between the lifted scraper and the stuff remaining...
Re: scraping glue in the sun
Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
Mon, 1 Aug 2011 18:32:34 -0700
...glue from the plywood, I found that using a sharp paint scraper to remove most of the bubblegum-like glue, followed by a random...
Re: Removing gold gasket from aluminum
Historical mailing list - Ken Wilford
Mon, 20 Dec 2010 19:07:14 -0500
...Gold head gaskets $$$ For normal ones use some brake cleaner spray and a scraper. Ken Wilford John 3:16 www.vanagain.com On 12...
Re: Brrr - is it always so cold in a Vanagon?
Historical mailing list - John Branstrom
Mon, 17 Jan 2000 08:56:25 EST
...If you think your cold now borrow a friends air-cooled vanagon and drive it for a week (don't forget your ice scraper...
Re: Where to get A-pillar Molding / was Door window scrapers
Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
Thu, 1 Jul 2010 23:17:44 +1200
Only *13,90 �* (VAT included) plus shipping. > Trust the Europeans to not know decimal notation. > I call > > those rain gutter deco strips. Not really...
Re: scraping glue in the sun
Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
Mon, 1 Aug 2011 21:26:32 -0700
...glue from |the plywood, I found that using a sharp paint scraper to |remove most of the bubblegum-like glue, followed by a random...
Re: Rear engine support bar question....
Historical mailing list - George Goff
Mon, 1 Mar 2004 02:41:44 EST
...If the holes are large enough (1/4" +), the burrs small enough and you know how to use a triangular scraper well enough, that...
Re: rear hatch emblem removal
Historical mailing list
Tue, 7 Feb 2012 11:26:48 -0500
...the credit card is used as a flexible scraper. it wont scratch the paint and is thin enough to get under the edge of...
Re: scraping glue in the sun
Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
Mon, 1 Aug 2011 18:30:53 -0700
...glue from the plywood, I found that using a sharp paint scraper to remove most of the bubblegum-like glue, followed by a random...
How to Remove '69 bus window
Historical mailing list - John Grunkemeier
Mon, 8 Aug 1994 16:59:47 -0700 (PDT)
...So I removed the window scraper rubber (there is a long metal wire with protrusions in it that hold in the rubber) and sort...
Re: DIY windshield de-icing solution?
Historical mailing list - Ben
Wed, 12 Feb 2014 10:52:17 -0800
...those ice scrapers are, frankly, lame. Where's the longer handle for leverage?
Re: scraping glue in the sun
Historical mailing list - Anthony Egeln
Mon, 1 Aug 2011 21:02:09 -0700
...glue from the plywood, I found that using a sharp paint scraper to remove most of the bubblegum-like glue, followed by a random...
new tires
Historical mailing list - Hector Zapata
Sun, 13 May 2001 20:23:35 -0400
...On a very different subject, Pep Boys sells ice scrapers and defrosters in their stores...in Puerto Rico (helloooo, tropical island). Strikes me as...
Re: DIY windshield de-icing solution?
Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
Sun, 9 Feb 2014 17:22:40 -0600
...mcneely ---- "Chris S." <szpejankowski@GMAIL.COM> wrote: > I'll drink to that! > > Chris. > > > Listen to your ice scraper. Go back to the warm indoors...
Re: Where to get A-pillar Molding / was Door window scrapers
Historical mailing list - Mike S
Thu, 1 Jul 2010 07:28:23 -0400
At 06:35 AM 7/1/2010, BenT Syncro wrote... > *Molding* >Molding for T3 (T25) Bus / Transporter / Vanagon >for installation on a-pillar. >Colour...
Re: Accessories for Wind trim seal etc.....84 Westy
Historical mailing list - Jeff Schwaia
Thu, 21 Oct 2010 15:28:24 -0700
...The outer window scrapers are the only ones that are NLA at this time. Although I do have a few brand new, early model...
Re: Removing gold gasket from aluminum
Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
Mon, 20 Dec 2010 19:17:50 -0500
Scraper, gasket dissolver, and when really desperate a smooth flat file. Be careful with the file. Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto...
Re: Rubber Parts
Historical mailing list - The Bus Depot
Sun, 4 Feb 2001 11:11:23 -0500
> My problem is that our Arizona summers do very bad things > to the rubber parts, Shifter boots, window scrapers, mouldings etc. > The VW Dealer...
Re: best method/chemical/tool to remove very old pinstripe material
Historical mailing list - Joseph Dor�
Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:44:15 -0500
...Fellow listees, What best experience do you have removing the old pinstriping? Goo Gone & plastic scraper? Mineral Spirits? Razor blade? Rubber eraser wheel on...
Rubber Parts
Historical mailing list - Neal R. Hansen
Sun, 4 Feb 2001 05:14:45 -0700
...do very bad things to the rubber parts, Shifter boots, window scrapers, mouldings etc. The VW Dealer prices are killing me and take all...
Re: Opinions on WCM/WolfsBWest?
Historical mailing list
Wed, 3 Jul 1996 14:22:27 -0400
...have purchased (rear door seal, engine lid trim and front door "scrapers" etc.) were all WAY to stiff and consequently made shutting the rear...
Re: DIY windshield de-icing solution?
Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
Sun, 9 Feb 2014 15:56:30 -0800
...On 02/09/2014 03:19 PM, Dave Mcneely wrote: > ---- Angus Gordon <birdworks@GMAIL.COM> wrote: >> Dear Rocket J, >> >> Listen to your ice scraper...
Re: Removing gold gasket from aluminum
Historical mailing list - Tom Hargrave
Tue, 21 Dec 2010 03:22:16 -0600
Ive always used a razor blade scraper at a very shallow angle and taken my time so I did not damage the surface. Sent...
Re: tint?
Historical mailing list - Charles Hokanson
Tue, 10 Oct 2000 00:44:18 EDT
...tint shop he uses a razor blade mounted in a little > scraper > and Johnsons baby shampoo to soften the glue and provide a lubricant...
DIY windshield de-icing solution?
Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
Sun, 9 Feb 2014 10:56:06 -0800
...My handy-dandy ice scraper just slides over it. I get good results using the aerosol can of de-icing solution, but I wonder...
Re: DIY windshield de-icing solution?
Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
Mon, 10 Feb 2014 06:22:40 -0800
...Not even a premium Lexan windshield scraper will remove that kinda ice. On Feb 10, 2014 12:00 AM, "Jeff Palmer" <jpalmer@mymts.net...
Re: How to remove rear wheel well stone guards?
Historical mailing list
Fri, 6 Oct 2006 12:03:31 EDT
...ve been cracked > and discolored. > > fingernail or credit card (as a scraper) and a hairdryer. and a lot of time. any other way and...
Re: Replacing roll up window scrapers & channels
Historical mailing list - Jeff Lincoln
Fri, 3 May 2013 11:35:10 -0400
I think that most of the onliune vendors carry the replacements for these. I have done this it isn't really all that hard...
Driver/Passenger window seals
Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
Sat, 9 Apr 2016 14:26:07 -0500
I'm about to attempt to replace the felt seals and scrapers on these windows. Is there anything special to watch out for. I...
Re: Front door window rubbers
Historical mailing list - Pascal Giasson
Thu, 11 Aug 2005 21:32:17 -0400
...Frank, When you say just remove the bottom two seal, do you mean the two inner and outer scrapers? If yes how do you...
Re: scraping glue in the sun
Historical mailing list - Mike Miller
Mon, 1 Aug 2011 22:47:00 -0700
...glue from the > plywood, I found that using a sharp paint scraper to remove most of > the bubblegum-like glue, followed by a random...
Re: Latex paint removal
Historical mailing list - Sam Conant
Mon, 2 Jul 2007 17:27:49 -0400
On the windshield, I'd start with a razor blade scraper and then use water for the rest of the entire job. SamC ----- Original...
Re: subject Re: Door window scrapers
Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
Fri, 25 Jun 2010 19:43:42 -0700
...com> > wrote: > >> > >>> Vannuts, > >>> > >>> Anybody know the part number for the window scrapers [? Rubber strips > at > >>> the bottom of the front door windows that seal...