Very very cool, but may not have the durability that airing harness would
need. Great idea, though.

Jim

On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Harry Hoffman <hhoffman@ip-solutions.net>
wrote:

> You might dig this:
>
>
> https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/electroninks/circuit-scribe-draw-circuits-instantly?mobile=0
>
> Cheers,
> Harry
>
>
> On 10/21/14 11:18 AM, Jim Felder wrote:
> > Tell you what. You buy this stuff in  a dispensing tube, it's 30 bucks I
> > think, and you use a nickel's worth of it and then throw away the rest at
> > the end of its relatively short shelf life. Why doesn't everyone who
> wants
> > to use some email me with their address, and I will put it in an envelope
> > and send it to one of you who can cross out their name and send it to the
> > next. By the time it gets back to me, I may need it again but it won't
> all
> > go to waste.
> >
> > Jim
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 10:13 AM, sailingfc @dslextreme.com <
> > sailingfc@dslextreme.com> wrote:
> >
> >> 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
> >>>
> >>
> >>
>