this is good stuff, and if we plan on keeping our vans for any time we all come up against these problems we will have to deal with. I  appreciate seeing other's solutions, no matter how the maker's feel about the fix. And I believe all of us are capable of making good repairs. It all comes down to feeling free to do it. There is no substitute for trying things, experimenting, failing, succeeding.

alistair

On 2011-11-26, at 4:18 PM, Edward Maglott wrote:

> That is beautiful.  I am not ashamed to show my ugly but effective
> version:  http://staff.blueridge.edu/~edwardm/vanagon/pp023/index.htm
> 
> Edward
> 
> At 04:32 PM 11/26/2011, neil n wrote:
>> Yes! Saw that. More thorough and better looking than my repair of totally
>> failed corners on instrument cluster; metal reinforcement, each with a tab
>> bent over to provide a screw hole. Very ugly! No pic will be shown!   ;)
>> Used LePage "5 Min." Metal type epoxy IIRC.
>> 
>> Neil.
>> 
>> On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 9:05 AM, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
>> 
>> > ver nice job posted on the samba in this thread
>> >
>> > http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=489656
>> >
>> > alistair