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Subject:Re: Westy kitchen LED panel overlay
From:Jim Felder
Date:Fri, 11 Nov 2011 18:43:04 -0600

I will mail it to requestors until I get a chance to put it on a website
somewhere. Diesel Vanagon members can download it from the Yahoo! group of
the same name.

Jim

On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Rocket J Squirrel <
camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote:

> Swell, Jim, and very ambitious! Where do I download the panel?
>
> --
> 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.
>
> Sent from my kitchen.
>
>
> 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
>>
>