So far I am not getting my pen to work... not that old, maybe six months.
Will keep trying.

Jim

On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Jim Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >>
>>
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