> << Are the brown and the white caps for the cabinet
> screws still available from VW dealers  ..... or
> elsewhere? >>
>
> Recently, while refinishing some interior pieces, I
> needed replacements for those little plastic arrow
> clips which hold the panels to the sliding-door
> interior and tailgate. Found such clips at my local
> TrueValue hardware store, and also stumbled upon the
> screw caps you mention, in black, white, and brown.
> Dunno if they're exactly the correct ones for the
> Westy, but they seemed to have a variety of sizes.
>
> Lots of other cool little widgets: thick rubber
> washers for mounting the fiberglass luggage rack to
> the roof, roll pins for the latch mechanism on the
> wing windows, various stainless steel fittings,
> grommets for passing electrical wires thru bodywork
> bulkheads, etc..
>
> Good reasons to shop local -- when I ask for this
> kinda stuff at the Home Depot, all I get is dumb looks
> ...
>
>
> "OK, I'll leave it at that since I've already gone on
> for far too long about something I don't know a whole
> lot about ..."
>
> Jeffrey Earl
> 1983 diesel Westfalia "Vanasazi"

Great suggestion.  The hardware store our little town is still heated
with a wood stove and I believe they have more than one hammer choice so
I'll check them out.

Thanks,

Mike