... George, my dash is completely out to replace blower motor (side bar - when little jobs...). IDK MakerBot but have a very clean unit for pix if it helps ...

--- On Mon, 11/21/11, george jannini <georgejoann@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> From: george jannini <georgejoann@GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: Re: When little Jobs Go Wrong
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Date: Monday, November 21, 2011, 11:33 AM
> ���Fonman, I've just
> gone through somewhat the same dash crap as you-
> original problem was a broken speedo cable, but the job
> devolved into
> my being forced into finding, then assembling the best
> parts that I
> could come up with from 4 spare dash pods, all of which
> suffered from
> varying degrees of dinged/cracked/broken plastic and/or
> folded/broken/missing contacts where the console attaches
> to the
> wiring harness.
> 
> ���The plastic on my original '89 unit is in
> such awful condition that
> even the tab the connector slides onto broke when I
> attempted to test
> it and one of the two studs that the tach face screws into
> had
> dissolved into small pieces.� The speedo was pretty
> much being kept
> from falling to the floor by its cable.
> 
> ���I knot that it's whistling in the dark,
> but does anyone here have a
> MakerBot big enough to tackle the job and a naked console
> in good
> enough shape to make a decent copy? <EG>
> 
> Geo/ATL
>