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• Re: por 15
  Historical mailing list - Sam Conant
  Sat, 26 May 2007 12:53:39 -0400
  ...http://www.beneteau235.com/iron_rust.htm Don't forget the underscore _ between iron and rust. Sam Conant ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sam Conant" <samcvt...
• Re: New Front Brake Rotor Question
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Mon, 30 Mar 2009 23:08:58 -0700
  I think its the porosity of the cast iron; it will hold oil in its 'pores', sort of like a frying pan. :-) On Mon...
• Re: Time to paint, should I film it?
  Historical mailing list - B Feddish
  Thu, 10 Mar 2011 14:36:19 -0500
  ...look like a lightsaber. << Now THAT would be a good purchase. Ironically enough, the full respirator I did buy was the most expensive Item...
• Re: it's Friday, she blew the microwave up
  Historical mailing list - Mark Hineline
  Fri, 24 Sep 2010 10:38:35 -0700
  What I can't remember is whether water must have any particular impurity to promote the oxidation of iron. I don't think it...
• Re: It's Phinally Phriedae, and Drug prohibition created the drug lords. (was (ironically) Re: HIJACKED - update)
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Fri, 16 Apr 2010 08:41:45 -0700
  now you've got it, perfect Friday comment :) (ducking for cover as Jake loads his Holland & Holland) alistair On 16-Apr-10, at 8...
• Justifying Cost of Diesel Conversion
  Historical mailing list - Marshall Ruskin
  Wed, 29 Dec 1999 22:49:01 -0600
  ...Marshall Ruskin 84 Westy "Iron Igloo" Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Founding Member of "Vanagon's Anonymous"
• Re: control arm bushings
  Historical mailing list - Edward Maglott
  Tue, 23 May 2006 13:55:54 -0400
  Why do the cast iron control arms give a better ride? Edward > Do note that a late(late 85,onward), cast iorn front suspension...
• Re: Foil instrument cluster wiring repair?
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Sat, 17 Jan 2015 23:39:58 -0800
  ...to > the copper, go in fast and hot with fine tipped iron. > > The wire you're trying to solder to the copper should be...
• Ironic Vanagon sighting in Frozen Tundra
  Historical mailing list - chris and/or ruth
  Tue, 7 Jan 2014 18:35:21 -0800
  Just as coworker and I noticed a stalled�Passat TDI on the side of the road, a nice, a late model white Vanagon GL...
• VW Bug Blast Saturday
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:46:00 -0500
  Not much info, but this is a regular annual event at the beautiful Tannehill Ironworks Historical State Park near Birmingham, AL Show Includes Beetles...
• Re: Protecting a sticker?
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Thu, 3 Sep 2009 11:17:15 -0400
  ...Instant-laminating stuff? I don't think you have to iron it or anything. -- David Beierl - Providence RI USA -- http://pws.prserv.net/synergy...
• Part 2: Anybody have an extra moulding strip?
  Historical mailing list - Marshall Ruskin
  Thu, 19 Aug 1999 18:36:00 -0500
  ...don't expect to find real chrome! Thanks for the Bandwidth Again! Marshall Ruskin 84 Westy "Iron Igloo" Founding Member of "Vanagon's Anonymous"
• Duracool eh?
  Historical mailing list - Donald Adams
  Wed, 25 May 2005 08:56:04 -0700
  It's kind of ironic that Duracool refridgerant is made in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Most Americans don't think of Canada as a place...
• Re: Help Needed on Manual to Auto Trans wiring problem.
  Historical mailing list - BenT Syncro
  Tue, 7 Nov 2006 14:22:38 -0800
  ...to the coil in the starting circuit. > > Glad he got it ironed out Benny. > > > Have Fun not shifting while driving your Vanagon--( OK DOKA...
• Re: Leaking oil dipstick tube
  Historical mailing list - Bill Marshall
  Thu, 15 May 2003 09:09:28 EDT
  ...To get mine in all the way, I used a chunk of angle iron and hammered it in, rotating the angle iron around the...
• light switch illumination
  Historical mailing list - Harry Yates
  Fri, 10 Feb 1995 11:29:33 +0000
  ...A few minutes with a soldering iron fixed that job.
• Norcold altitude
  Historical mailing list - Gary Clendening
  Thu, 25 Sep 1997 07:49:57 -0400
  ...Wish you were here, Gary Gary and Belle from Hallowell, ME garyc@saturn.caps.maine.edu '72 Westy (gone to iron oxide) '97 EVC...
• Re. Hi
  Historical mailing list - Gary Clendening
  Thu, 2 Oct 1997 08:45:29 -0400
  ...Gary Gary and Belle from Hallowell, ME garyc@saturn.caps.maine.edu '72 Westy (gone to iron oxide) '97 EVC "Flash"
• Exhaust manifold material?
  Historical mailing list - Leif Paulsen
  Wed, 12 Aug 1998 15:47:50 -0600
  I need to know if the exhaust manifold on an '86 2.1 engine is steel, aluminium, or cast Iron. the Welder needs to...
• Any Listees get an I-Opener Yet? (No Vanagon Content)
  Historical mailing list - Marshall Ruskin
  Fri, 7 Apr 2000 01:02:20 -0500
  ...Have any listees received one yet? ...Chris? (I am still waiting for mine to be delivered.) Marshall Ruskin 84 Westy "Iron Igloo" Winnipeg, Manitoba...
• Old VW TV Commercial on Web
  Historical mailing list - Marshall Ruskin
  Fri, 31 Mar 2000 21:11:52 -0600
  ...It's another stay-at-home Friday! I need to get out more! Marshall Ruskin 84 Westy "Iron Igloo" Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Founding Member...
• Canvan top patch
  Historical mailing list - JasonPufahl
  Mon, 1 Dec 2003 14:21:13 -0500
  ...Any ideas of the best way to repair it? Sewing it in place seems like a difficult venture, perhaps some sort of iron on...
• Re: Canada brokerage fees
  Historical mailing list - Doug Alcock
  Thu, 26 Oct 2006 13:04:44 -0400
  ...UPS is the worst for brokerage fees --- I once ordered a $50 steak branding iron and got hit $60 in brokerage..........I hope that...
• Re: Magical cast iron suspension?
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Wed, 8 Oct 2008 12:56:30 -0700
  For sure, the later vanagons with the cast iron lower control arms in front seem quieter, and their handling is 'less lively, less tossable...
• Re: [NVC] Griddle recco 2 fit atop Westy stove
  Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
  Thu, 8 Oct 2009 17:14:41 -0700
  ...BZ-can't have too many cast iron pots > > > On Oct 8, 2009, at 5:18 PM, Rocket J Squirrel wrote: > >> I'm looking...
• Re: Rotor thoughts
  Historical mailing list - Eric Zeno
  Mon, 16 Aug 2004 15:27:42 -0400
  ...Steel is an alloy of iron and > carbon (often times with a few other miscellaneous additives). Steel > (and Iron) will oxidize (rust), given exposure...
• Re: Adding Slick50 to engine and transmission of 91 Westy, Opinion?
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Sun, 8 Sep 2002 12:31:33 +1200
  ...It breaks down on the cylinder walls due to heat, releasing acids which corrode the iron. Likewise don't use Motor Up, which is...
• Re: Florida to Corpus Christi to PA Trip
  Historical mailing list - Steven Johnson
  Sat, 22 Jul 2006 07:46:57 -0700
  ...My > 83.5 Westy, Iron Butterfly was ready. New Vanco-8's, > > This is the short version of the trip. > > Through it all, I...
• Re: Super Horns
  Historical mailing list - Robert Stevens
  Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:41:25 -0700
  ...Sound is very "American" big iron, but much better at sounding an alert when it's needed. bob
• If you come to Portland OR - Visit the VolksWaffle
  Historical mailing list - Todd.Last
  Sat, 2 Oct 2010 17:38:30 -0700
  ...It's a 1985 Volkswagen Vanagon, retrofitted with gleaming stainless-steel counters, a refrigerator and two Waring Belgian waffle irons.
• Re: Utility rear bumpers ?
  Historical mailing list - Terry K.
  Sun, 21 Apr 2002 23:44:19 -0500
  Mike -- You want something bullet proof--get some 4 or 6" channel iron--- blow some holes in it for the mount bolts-- Pity the...
• Re: Off topic...fires in So Cal
  Historical mailing list - BenT Syncro
  Tue, 23 Oct 2007 17:25:21 -0700
  ...it was like in San Francisco during the Oakland Hills fire. Ironically it started Oct. 20, 1991. IIRC some newspapers described the winds as...
• Re: Swapping '86 front end onto '82
  Historical mailing list - Al and Sue Brase
  Fri, 11 Feb 2005 22:03:27 -0600
  ...And YES, I stand corrected, it is cast steel, not cast iron. Can anyone tell me the difference? I suppose the steel has some...
• Re: [F] Saving the planet
  Historical mailing list - Thom Fitzpatrick
  Sat, 16 Mar 1996 09:39:18 -0800
  >This just falls into my theory that, eventually, red squirrels with rule the >Earth with cute little iron fists! Squirrels! There not just yard...
• For those looking for a VR6
  Historical mailing list - Marshall Ruskin
  Sat, 28 Aug 1999 02:28:47 -0500
  ...Marshall Ruskin 84 Westy "Iron Igloo" Founding Member of "Vanagon's Anonymous"
• flywheel removal saga is OVER!
  Historical mailing list - Miguel Calvin
  Sun, 22 Jul 2001 17:24:50 -0400
  ...In the end I used a 6 ft angle iron to imobilise the flywheel and a 20 inch breaker bar, lieing on my back...
• Re: drums and shoes
  Historical mailing list - George Goff
  Sun, 6 Feb 2005 21:01:44 EST
  ...missed that, but I bought a pair of OE, one piece, cast iron drums which are from South Africa. They are definately beefier. George
• Peanut oil on exhaust system?
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Tue, 24 Apr 2007 00:40:33 -0400
  How about slathering a new exhaust system with peanut oil, every time you drive it, until a coating, not unlike a black iron skillet...
• Re: Wallaced?
  Historical mailing list - Pensioner
  Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:31:29 -0800
  ...Did your mom cook in cast iron pans?
• Re: do you vanagon list people have a life?
  Historical mailing list - Tom Buese
  Mon, 30 Jul 2007 13:40:52 -0600
  On Jul 30, 2007, at 1:22 PM, Scott Daniel - Shazam wrote: > Does anyone find it ironic that someone would find the time to...
• Re: another great portable BBQ
  Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
  Sat, 4 Jan 2014 07:58:20 -0800
  I, too, have eyed that cast-iron grill. For high-heat searing-type cooking it looks quite the winner. But yeah, heavy. Some, I...
• Hot-Wire AFM wanted
  Historical mailing list - Marshall Ruskin
  Sat, 23 Oct 1999 22:00:55 -0500
  ...Cheers! Marshall Ruskin 84 Westy "Iron Igloo" Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Founding Member of "Vanagon's Anonymous"
• front carpet
  Historical mailing list - Allan Streib
  Sat, 1 Nov 2008 17:56:13 -0400
  Anyone got any favorites for new front carpet? I dropped a soldering iron on mine today and that left a nasty mark. It looked...
• Soldering Suggestions: General and for LED�s compilation
  Historical mailing list - Michael Rule
  Tue, 14 Sep 2004 04:52:30 -0700
  ...I use a magnetically regulated iron with good old heating element at home. The lowest cost irons are unregulated. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In general, as long as...
• Re: Let's Talk About Seats
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:42:10 -0700
  ...In case some of you haven't noticed, I have an ironic & sarcastic > sense of humor. > Really Tom, we'd have never noticed.... :) (But...
• reinforcing fiberglass bumpers..Re: Bumpers
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 28 Oct 2002 12:08:39 EST
  i reinforced the whole area behind my fiberglass bumpers w/ steel angle iron.. i bolted a U channel from one bumper bracket to the...
• Re: seam rust
  Historical mailing list - Roy Nicholl
  Sat, 13 Sep 2014 11:12:05 -0300
  ...They had two different brands of brush on converter. > They both seem to work the same by converting the iron oxide into iron > phosphate...
• Re: Hydrogen power for the Vanagon Now!
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:33:46 -0500
  ...net> wrote: > > >> Good plan. >> >> I filed it and the Magical Cast Iron Suspension in along with Cone >> Remover, Sky Hooks, and Bag Stretchers. >> >> John...
• Cylinder Types
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Fri, 12 Dec 2003 13:52:07 -0600
  ...Back in my aviation days I remember aircraft cylinder barrels being steel(or maybe cast iron - machined, but don't think so) with steel...
• Re: LED solder gauge
  Historical mailing list - Michael Rule
  Sat, 11 Sep 2004 16:31:00 -0700
  Hi Vince, Thanks! Regarding "right soldering iron", then I'm guessing a lower wattage for smaller jobs (circuit board work) and greater for larger...
• Re: Spam:WTB Gun Rack for Westy
  Historical mailing list - Robert A. Alexander
  Tue, 19 Jan 1999 23:24:28 -0500
  ...with me, it just takes about 20 seconds to pass the iron & ammo around the Vanagon. While that's going on I just drop...
• Westy ThanksGiving in Canada
  Historical mailing list - Marshall Ruskin
  Sun, 3 Oct 1999 23:49:05 -0500
  ...Thank you all! Marshall Ruskin 84 Westy "Iron Igloo" Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Founding Member of "Vanagon's Anonymous"
• Re: bears burgling for food?
  Historical mailing list - Robert Fisher
  Wed, 18 Aug 2004 11:09:34 -0700
  At the risk of sending Gnarlie 'round the bend, I ran across this rather ironic (in this context) article: http://abcnews.go.com/wire...
• Re: Out of Office AutoReply: Re: Wallaced?
  Historical mailing list - Richard Golen
  Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:12:18 -0500
  How ironic....getting Wallaced in response to the what does Wallace mean querry... At 07:49 PM 1/28/2008, Steve Laurenzano wrote: >I...
• Re: LED solder gauge
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Mon, 20 Sep 2004 23:59:07 -0500
  ...You always verified your iron temp by melting the first bit of the solder wire on your cleaned iron and wiped of on sponge...
• Re: Last Word in Head Gaskets
  Historical mailing list - Dan Fleming
  Thu, 23 Jan 1997 09:02:29 -0800
  ...Most Japaneese automakers had their trial and error period in the 60's with iron blocks and aluminum heads, and we had problems with...
• spark plugs
  Historical mailing list - jeff crane
  Sat, 13 May 2000 17:21:20 -0400
  ...And to say the others are pulling our leg in their advertising because they claim platinum outlasts iron is crazy. Who would argue that...
• Re: Dear Vanagon,
  Historical mailing list - Robert Campbell
  Fri, 19 Aug 2005 11:30:34 -0400
  It would appear that the Wallace has morphed! :-) Happy Friday! And, don't you love the irony of the spam message telling you about...
• In Withdrawl - NOTHING Wrong with my Westy!
  Historical mailing list - Marshall Ruskin
  Wed, 15 Sep 1999 22:13:26 -0500
  ...Just out of curiosity - anybody else in my predicament? Marshall Ruskin 84 Westy "Iron Igloo" Founding Member of "Vanagon's Anonymous"
• Vanagon Seat Covers on Sale
  Historical mailing list - Marshall Ruskin
  Thu, 24 Feb 2000 19:59:05 -0600
  ...Marshall Ruskin 84 Westy "Iron Igloo" Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Founding Member of "Vanagon's Anonymous"