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• Re: Best Way To Remove Old Westfalia Decal?
  Historical mailing list - Greg Potts
  Mon, 6 Apr 2009 07:40:03 -0400
  ...A heat gun or even a hair dryer might allow you to > get a razor blade under one corner and start peeling up. Then...
• Nicro Solar Powervent Installed!
  Historical mailing list - PSavage
  Thu, 9 Nov 2000 06:40:02 -0800
  ...There is an on/off switch for the fan from below & the unit comes with two fan blades, quickly changed, for exhaust or intake...
• Nice low mileage 88 Westy for sale in Sacremento
  Historical mailing list - Paul Guzyk
  Tue, 8 Mar 2011 07:51:13 -0700
  ...pop top and luggage rack seals, wiper blades, windshield, and skylight. If you want a Westy that looks like it is only a couple...
• Re: Lube Raditor fan motor bushings?
  Historical mailing list - neil N
  Tue, 18 Dec 2007 12:58:43 -0800
  ...affair and not worth trying to lube? > > It appears that the blade unit is press fit and won't slide off > easily, (and I...
• Re: Cut tranny input shaft while still in tranny? (for engine conversion)
  Historical mailing list - craig cowan
  Fri, 7 Mar 2008 19:14:18 -0500
  ...have a typical Skill saw, you can just get an abrasive blade for > that. > > But taking the bell housing off - I recommend that to...
• Re: Improve comfort of Buddy Heater
  Historical mailing list - Dan N
  Wed, 16 Nov 2022 10:20:03 -0800
  ...produces > electricity > > which drives a little motor which turns a fan blade. Buddy Heaters > produce > > radiant heat. But a lot of heat rises above...
• Re: Light switches
  Historical mailing list - Otmar List Account
  Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:21:21 -0800
  ...connection in the >plug base can be bridged by the same blade fuses the vanagon uses. >I powered the parking lamps from posts taken...
• Re: Any wood worker cabinetmakers?
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Wed, 15 Dec 2004 07:13:05 -0600
  ...I would not recommend a table saw but rather a big table top and a circular saw with the blade depth set correctly. A...
• Re: Microscopic corrosion on electrical contacts
  Historical mailing list - Richard Koerner
  Thu, 15 Jun 2023 01:17:44 +0000
  ...barrier against incoming humid air.  Consider a simple 1/4" Male blade connector, with a matching 1/4" Female connector.  With some sort of...
• Re: tips needed for grommet install
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Wed, 17 May 2017 16:02:36 -0700
  ...Work as much of the grommet's slot into the opening as you can, then use a small flat blade screwdriver in the slot...
• Baja trip, no headlights.....
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Mon, 2 May 2011 20:48:08 -0700
  ...I used a flat blade screwdriver to turn the bare switch, engine started and lights worked fine. Good enough to run errands and get...
• Re: Aux battery kit from Bus Depot (fwd)
  Historical mailing list - John Hurley
  Thu, 4 Nov 1999 09:22:34 -0500
  ...It's a basic relay with a built-in blade fuse for protection, and includes wiring and instructions. It connects both batteries in parallel...
• Re: rear curtain access
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Grisanti
  Tue, 28 Jan 2014 08:54:12 -0800
  ...I ask to make sure before I� release the > inner; razor bladed kraken! > > Thanks Jim > > > On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 11:19 AM...
• Re: Sealing Windshield?... [Was: thank you vanagon community!]
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Wed, 6 Apr 2011 14:09:01 -0700
  ...dry, and then trim away any excess (perhaps with a > razor blade). Would that seal any gaps and keep the water away from any...
• Re: Transport Q: 4 those familiar with GoWesty Bumpers
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Fri, 28 Jan 2011 08:50:31 -0600
  ...Also...get tempted by a few more of their offerings....those guys are good....how 'bout those wiper blades? You're probably ready for...
• Re: Refrigerator and alarm
  Historical mailing list - David Schwarze
  Mon, 15 May 1995 14:33:13 -0700 (PDT)
  ...It is nothing more than a small motor with a fan blade with a plastic housing, that sits on the bottom of the fridge...
• Re: Phrydaye Phollies ... and the theme tonight is: Snow! :)
  Historical mailing list - joel walker
  Fri, 2 Jan 2009 21:13:04 -0600
  ...The only other sound I hear Is wiper blades on snowy fluff. His bus is lovely, clean and bright, A pleasing note of all...
• Re: Hex Wrenches
  Historical mailing list - Davidson
  Sat, 25 Dec 1999 08:11:51 -0800
  ...it >hurts your hand a LOT if you try to use the blade by itself! :( > >what else: >- torque wrench. for tightening the lug nuts...
• Canadian Westfalia Shore Power Cord Warning
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Mon, 2 Feb 2015 14:50:56 -0800
  ...What likely caused the failure: - corrosion at blades of connector (I was using a new extension cord) - heat due to corrosion caused the (vinyl...
• Re: CCC's 9/20 trip particulars
  Historical mailing list - Scott A. Harvey
  Tue, 10 Sep 1996 08:37:36 -0700 ()
  ...He's a Golden pure bred, will play with anyone who has a tennis ball, hates roller blades and kids who tease him (he...
• Re: after the fridge is lit..
  Historical mailing list - Davidson
  Tue, 18 Apr 2000 10:40:07 -0700
  ...could the fan blade be hitting something? Bill -----Original Message----- From: David Greenland <dave.g@mindspring.com> To: Davidson <wdavidson@thegrid.net>; vanagon@gerry...
• Re: AFM black plastic cap removal - Nervous
  Historical mailing list - Chris Radcliffe
  Sun, 20 Jan 2002 23:24:52 -0800
  ...AFM black plastic cap removal - Nervous Chris, Use a sheetrock knife blade or something thin and sharp and cut into the silicone to break...
• Re: hole saws/floor cutting
  Historical mailing list - Robert Fisher
  Sat, 22 Jan 2005 18:57:22 -0800
  ...I'll always find a use for it or other blades if I find a >> > great one that allows blade changes and if I...
• Re: 84 Westfalia Refrigerator noise...? (continued)
  Historical mailing list - OOMKES Robin
  Thu, 6 Sep 2001 10:27:09 +0200
  ...It is an > unshielded 2 blade plastic prop that looks like it belongs on the front of a > kids wind-up airplane rather than...
• Re: Vanagon won't start help
  Historical mailing list - Dave Caston
  Tue, 3 Oct 2000 09:50:49 -0400
  ...Then, with a short screwdriver or something like it, push ever so slightly on the blades of the Temp II sender terminals to increase...
• Re: Dometic insulation
  Historical mailing list - Tom Buese
  Fri, 17 Aug 2007 09:52:19 -0600
  ...the > furnaces that > are used to make small metal items( knife blades ) at home. One > seller will > sell by the sq ft. It worked...
• Re: Window tinting
  Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
  Wed, 31 Mar 1999 20:39:29 -0600
  ...you'll also need a box/whatever of single-edge razor blades. about $2, i think. get the big old-style ones. a utility...
• Rubber...Our best friend...Our worst enemy
  Historical mailing list - Richard Koerner
  Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:53:18 -0800
  ...thing to the air filter.� Power steering and suspension and wiper blades and shock absorbers...more rubber things to fail. Now, rubber is an...
• Re: spacers and sproings
  Historical mailing list - Steven X. Schwenk
  Tue, 30 Jun 1998 14:28:58 -0700
  ...Goes well with the "doughnuts." > All you need is a jigsaw and a very thin > fine toothed blade. Use the "doughnut" as a pattern...
• Re: Acckk! My gear juice is *blue*...
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Tue, 18 Mar 2003 13:09:16 -0600
  ...Page also had a test program going where they hovered helicopters in sand pits for hours, sucking sand into the engines, rotor blades, everything...
• Re: LED to tell when fan is on.
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:21:47 -0800
  ...I decided on a 12" Diameter, 10 blade > pancake style that pulls 1650 Cfm and draws only 7.5 Amps or around 90 > watts...
• Re: LED to tell when fan is on.
  Historical mailing list - neil N
  Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:03:41 -0800
  ...I decided on a 12" Diameter, 10 blade pancake style that pulls 1650 Cfm and draws only 7.5 Amps or around 90 watts...
• Re: Improve comfort of Buddy Heater
  Historical mailing list - Richard Koerner
  Wed, 16 Nov 2022 22:37:01 +0000
  ...so low that they can't injure, or because the fan blades are of > a > > soft material that will not cause injury, or both...
• Fw: Dometic
  Historical mailing list - Bill Davidson
  Tue, 18 Aug 1998 09:29:26 -0700
  ...be the > Fridgemate blades would be the same distance from the back of the fridge as > the stock Dometic fan blades. I also eliminated...
• Re: Caliper resetting pliers
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Sun, 24 Mar 2002 18:19:46 -0600
  ...twisting rebar ties, bunches of router bits, miniture 2" circular saw blades, true arc pliers, circlip pliers, gear pullers of many varities, heli coil...
• Re: toothpaste
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Wed, 22 Jun 2011 08:44:58 -0700
  ...or a brass tube (diameter of hole), with little shallow slots cut on one end with thin bladed saw. Chuck it up on the...
• Re: Poptop Seal Project
  Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
  Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:53:32 EDT
  ...to scrape the silicon off with a razor knife or razor blade. The rust stains really shouldn't matter because they are going to...
• Fw: Dometic Fridge Fans
  Historical mailing list - Davidson
  Mon, 5 Jul 1999 21:58:05 -0700
  ...be the >Fridgemate blades would be the same distance from the back of the fridge as >the stock Dometic fan blades. I also eliminated...
• Re: Painting tip--leave your window rubber in place and still get a perfect job
  Historical mailing list - J Stewart
  Mon, 22 Apr 2013 00:43:34 +0000
  ...the body and the lip of the rubber as the plastic > blade passes in front of it. This goes fast than you think; five...
• Re: respect - Didn't your mama teach you any manners?
  Historical mailing list - joel hembel
  Tue, 2 Mar 1999 21:44:50 -0600
  ...I've replaced most of my insulation with > this, it is easy to work with (blade and Rubberized glue) It insulates > against heat (max...
• Re: Strangest thing you've found in a new bus?
  Historical mailing list - Daniel Rotblatt
  Wed, 11 Jan 2012 09:03:53 -0800
  ...the one I lost 30 years ago that I loved - 2 blades, can & bottle openers. scissors, awl, phillips screwdriver and it still had the...
• FW: California Fall Specials
  Historical mailing list - Anderson,Chuck
  Fri, 20 Oct 2000 13:12:14 -0600
  ...025121010F OE water pump waterboxer $44 Buy a spare!! 251959455F radiator fan motor with blade '82-'91 Vanagon $60 Big brake kit for '80...
• Re: 1.9L exhaust system comments
  Historical mailing list - Ben huot
  Sun, 28 Apr 2002 12:14:59 -0400
  ...Also on some other plane the pitch of the blade and other more complicated stuff most constantly be monitor or adjusted. We have learned...
• Re: Speaking of horrible squealing noises...
  Historical mailing list - Evan Mac Donald
  Sun, 11 Dec 2005 16:01:03 -0800
  ...Use a standard-bladed screw driver, or small chisel, and drag the tool around the exposed part of the groove. That might let you...
• Re: heat slider switch
  Historical mailing list - Bob Stevens
  Wed, 25 Feb 2004 16:12:35 -0700
  ...I use a flat blade screw driver and pry on the top, bottom, and end where the fan switch knob was. That just gives...
• Re: Question about front heater core removal... blower motor wires
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Wed, 5 Mar 2008 22:11:35 -0600
  ...The power wire from the fuse > panel to the fan switch connector can be released from the connector > shell with a jewelers flat blade...
• Re: rear hatch lock failed locked...
  Historical mailing list - JRodgers
  Sat, 22 Mar 2014 11:25:29 -0500
  ...John On 3/22/2014 10:52 AM, Grungy wrote: > The combined advice of the respondents got me there. > Swiss army knife short blade...
• Vanagon Instrument Pod Lights Out
  Historical mailing list - Robert Stevens
  Sun, 1 Jan 2012 13:01:51 -0700
  ...After this, I cleaned the foil contact areas with alcohol, and very lightly scraped the contact points with a blade. I could see that...
• Re: IT WORKS!!! Mostly
  Historical mailing list - Mark Drillock
  Sun, 17 Jun 2007 09:07:47 -0700
  ...They would not spring closed on the ECU blade contacts reliably any more. Some of them even had evidence of arcing. A few minutes...
• Re: Water Pump Impeller Damage
  Historical mailing list - neil N
  Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:10:00 -0800
  ...The damage to the blades may be from contact > rather than coolant, so perhaps the globbed on RTV was in conjunction > with a thin...
• Re: broken 120 circuit breaker pin . . .
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:21:23 -0400
  ...The way it works is by measuring and comparing the current flow for both blades. Should a mis match occur it is assumed some...
• Re: Phraidaye Phollieez - Merry Something or Other
  Historical mailing list - Doug
  Fri, 25 Dec 2009 06:58:46 -0500
  ...have had enough. > The only other sound I hear > Is wiper blades on snowy fluff. > > His bus is lovely, clean and bright, > A pleasing...
• Re: How original is this type II ?
  Historical mailing list - Erik Soule
  Mon, 20 Feb 1995 10:45:13 -0800
  ...I have no idea if they came with windows. > The bumpers were blades, no overriders, and colored white. > The bus itself was two colors...
• Re: put goo on gaskets or not?
  Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
  Mon, 3 Jan 2005 06:35:35 EST
  ...and have to be removed with a gasket scraper or razor blade insuring damage of the aluminium surface is better ? Silicon sealant is not...
• Re: Fuse holder and relay bracket
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
  Fri, 24 Aug 2007 21:46:31 -0700
  ...The kind that uses the newer kind of fuses...........the two blade kind. But I must say, it would be a very very intense...
• Re: Improve comfort of Buddy Heater
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 16 Nov 2022 22:56:22 +0000
  ...produces electricity > which drives a little motor which turns a fan blade.  Buddy Heaters produce > radiant heat.  But a lot of heat rises above...
• Re: replacing oxygen sensor???
  Historical mailing list - Mark Dorm
  Wed, 27 Dec 2000 18:54:33 -0800
  ...them in and one of them got chewed up by the blades on the altenator (not right away, just happened). So I taped that...
• Re: Busses By the Bridge number something
  Historical mailing list - DaBomb
  Mon, 20 Jan 2003 16:26:44 -0800
  ...spots from the glare in my dreams! As Tyrell said in 'Blade Runner': "The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long...
• Re: 86-91 coolant flange
  Historical mailing list - kenneth d lewis
  Sun, 31 Aug 1997 11:26:46 EDT
  ...Using a putty knife I separated the flange and held the blade against the opening. Then I swapped the blade for the new flange...
• Re: Quick question: Removing the passenger expansion tank
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Sat, 14 Jul 2012 16:26:23 -0700
  ...Use a wide blade to pry off the tab on the tank that's on the stud, it has to come off first. It...