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Subject:Re: Westy kitchen LED panel overlay
From:Rocket J Squirrel
Date:Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:40:45 -0800

Swell, Jim, and very ambitious! Where do I download the panel?

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Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
Bend, Ore.
1984 Westfalia. A poor but proud people.
1971 "Ladybug"-brand utility trailer ca. 1972 from a defunct company in
San Clemente, Calif., now repurposed as The Westrailia.

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On 11/11/2011 02:33 PM, Jim Felder wrote:
> Today I got ambitious on a project I have been wanting to do for a long
> time. It's a replacement overlay for flaking, peeling and rusting front
> panels for 83-up vanagons. It's in brown, of course, because that's what I
> have. If someone will scan a grey one, I will make that version available
> (I need to get the color right... if someone just wants to scan and sample
> the CMYK mix in photoshop, that will work too).
>
> You should be able to have this printed out on a variety of substrates,
> depending on the capabilities of your local sign shop. Cut out the holes
> for the LEDs (white circles, you may even be able to get this printing on
> the backside of lexan with clear windows for the LEDS instead of punching
> them out). Remove your old metal panel and sand and respray it. Cut the
> printed file out at the outline, it should fit exactly within the debossed
> inset of your panel.
>
> Diesel-vanagon members will be able to see it in the files section, vanagon
> listmembers will have to email me. If someone has a place to put it for
> download, that's fine with me.
>
> Jim