hi Dennis,

I was thinking about hardwire them very recently.... and I am looking for a
soldering gun with a tip small enough for not melting the plastic bulb
housing. I was practicing with a regular soldering gun and destroy a couple
bulbs already...

You're pointing at the right direction for all of us the share... :-)

thanks for the tip...

dan

On Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 7:13 AM Dennis Haynes <d23haynes57@hotmail.com>
wrote:

> As an option look for the bulbs-sockets that will fit the das opening but
> have connections for connecting wires and then simply hardwire them.
>
> Dennis
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com> On Behalf Of Dan N
> Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2019 4:35 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Electrical conductive paste or glue/adhesive
>
> thanks all for the help...
>
> it's nice to get rid of the blue foil and get a kit to replace it, but...
> the blue foil still working good except the lights problem... but here's
> the thing, I have more than one van and replacing the blue foil on all the
> vans it's quite costly...
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 4:53 PM Richard Koerner <rjkinpb@sbcglobal.net>
> wrote:
>
> >  At first I was thinking of something like adhesive copper foil...from
> > McMaster-Carr.  But the more and more I looked into it, and
> > recognizing the
> > 30+ years age on that troublesome Blue Foil, the rock-solid
> > 30+ improvement
> > offered by GoWesty would be something to strongly consider.
> > Yes...it's $250...and probably several hours of work.  But they offer
> > a great video on how to do it, doesn't look bad at all, and you will
> > be confident for the next 30 years.  Their design looks robust and well
> conceived.
> >
> > For me, I use my van for extensive long distance cross country roadtrips.
> > Reliability is EVERYTHING to me.
> > So as GoWesty often says....Cry once, Do it right, and then forget
> > about it forever.  Having said that, no I haven't replaced mine in my
> > '85.  But maybe I will.
> > Rich
> >
> > San Diego
> >
> >
> >
> >     On Wednesday, March 20, 2019, 3:17:17 PM PDT, Jim. Felder <
> > jim.felder@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >
> >  Much cheaper, but haven't used this brand (though their other
> > products have been good)"
> >
> > https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.
> > gearbest.com%2Fother-tools%2Fpp_009129062089.html%3Fwid%3D1433363&amp;
> > data=02%7C01%7C%7C6ba24c3b28ec42374ebc08d6ae3cbd08%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb
> > 435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636887973223163892&amp;sdata=d2%2BVibbFAtr01
> > lfU6X2tWrtUPN1D8blnMTmYHuhW%2F6M%3D&amp;reserved=0
> >
> > Jim
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 12:52 PM Dan N <dn92610@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > hi all,
> > >
> > > I am looking for a kind of electrical conductive paste or
> > > glue/adhesive
> > to
> > > repair the instrument cluster blue foil...
> > >
> > > thanks advance for any idea of brand, kind and where to buy..
> > >
> > > I am repairing the spots where the lights are.. there's no contact
> > > and no light at all, the bulbs are LED and new.. I guess the spots
> > > were worn or broken...
> > >
> > > thanks
> > >
> > > dan
> > >
> >
> >
>