Instrument cluster foil:
It seems that it is not available as a replacement part.  To get a
replacement you have to buy a used instrument cluster.  You frequently see
them on eBay.  One just now went for $100 with one bid.  Another is
available for much less but, guess what; the foil is questionable, eg eBay
item # 260400571386.

I would jump on a cluster with non-working tach and speedo, if the foil was
in good shape.  I now have pieces of three clusters I use to keep mine
working.

Yes, it is possible to replicate the foil with discrete wires, but for most
of us that's a last resort scenario.  Maybe a future cottage industry.

Good luck
Tom Salicos

'87 Syncro Westy EG-33

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
David Beierl
Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 7:42 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Looking for a PCB

At 07:49 PM 4/30/2009, BenT Syncro wrote:
>Sounds like Gilles is looking for Printed Circuit Board (aka the blue foil
>in the instrument cluster).

Well...technically that one's not printed (though they are still
commonly called FPC or flexible PCB)...and calling it a foil is a
usage I've only encountered on this list.  Properly the entire thing
is a flexible circuit or flex PC or what-have-you.  The foil is the
copper material laminated inside that makes up the actual circuit --
a raw material if you will.

Coming from an electronics rather than a strictly Vanagon background,
my reaction was the same as Mike's -- "great...which one?" -- though
thinking more slowly, I suppose there's only one in a Vanagon that
has its own part number.  The rest are all enclosed in something else
that has a P/N.

Cheers,

  --
David Beierl - Providence RI USA -- http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
'89 Po' White Star "Scamp"