Looked into molding these instrument housings some time go - since I wan
into mold making. Turned out they are injection molded and the mold
forms were way out there pricewise for injection molding. You would
have to make a- and sell - a bunch to recover the cost. I looked into
this before the advent of 3-D printing. Since that has come on the scene
- perhaps that would be a means of getting some housings made. Maybe
could laser scan one, develop a data stream, and feed it to the printer
and produce them one off that way. Just an idea.

John

On 12/3/2013 10:01 PM, Ben wrote:
> These items are going up in price recently. I was making fun of a friend who posted just the tach for $100 on Samba. He's laughing all the way to the bank. Sold 2 of them just a couple of days ago. There's someone else selling one in the same ad section for $150. Now these are the tach ONLY.
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> Remember when you would pick up a complete 2wd cluster for under $50? Seems not that long ago. But then you used to be able to buy Sycro tintops for under $3K in tiptop condition. Now they are $9K-$18K on CL. Vanagons with blown motors are going for 10 times what they used to sell for 10 years ago.
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> Here's hoping someone starts replicating the fragile housings. It seems these clusters are being parted out because the housing have disintegrated from age.
>
>
> BenT
> sent from my electronic leash
>
>> On Dec 3, 2013, at 7:43 PM, Scott Daniel <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM> wrote:
>>
>> After you find one for you needs..
>> if ever anyone has a a good  85 instrument cluster and foil with tach ..
>> or 86 and up with tach ...
>> at a say ...under $ 100 price...
>> I'll take it.
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