Thanks for the tip on the conductive ink.  I have a non-Vanagon electronic
device that has a broken trace on a flex circuit.  It's been sitting for
years as it is "too expensive" to throw away.  I'm going to try it.

-Dick-
78 Scirocco
87 Vanagon Syncro
12 Golf TDI

On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 4:22 AM, Jim Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com> wrote:

> In the past, I tried two different "fixes" to common vanagon problems and I
> thought i would wait to see how they turned out before commenting on them.
> It's been several years that both have been in service, so here goes:
>
> Modifying visor clips to allow the use of late model visors in early
> vanagons. I would think that about 100 percent of early vanagons now have
> shabby bags of foam crumbles instead of nice functional visors. All I have
> seen have been that way. I had a bunch of late model visors but because of
> the way they mounted, you couldn't use them in an early 80s model because
> there was not enough distance between the retaining slot and the roof of
> the car where the retaining post (the part that the visor swings into and
> clips) was too short. The solution was to make posts that allowed the
> thicker molded visors to fit. I used a model saw to cut the top off of one
> mount and the bottom off of another insect a way that the result was a
> taller mount. I was afraid that given the heat and the leverage it might
> give up and split, but both are working well after a couple of years.
>
> The other thing that surprised me is the quality of the conductive fluid
> pen you gat at places like Radio Shack to repair printed circuit board
> paths. I used this to extend the worn-off copper around the final end of
> the instrument foil in my 83, and it has held up under repeated removal and
> replacement of the long connector. Between troubleshooting, brake lights,
> master cylinder, turbo instrument wiring and so forth the thing has been
> snapped in and out at least a dozen times since the repair and it functions
> perfectly so far.
>
>
> Jim
>