Skip to main content
Gerry | Vanagon
Checking account...
← vanagon.com home · Continue the discussion in the forum
Subject:Re: Vanagon Gripes
From:Vanman
Date:Sat, 5 Dec 1998 12:06:40 -0800

-----Original Message-----
From: JordanVw@AOL.COM <JordanVw@AOL.COM>
To: vanagon@VANAGON.COM <vanagon@VANAGON.COM>
Date: Saturday, December 05, 1998 9:48 AM
Subject: Re: Vanagon Gripes

>In a message dated 98-12-04 23:25:42 EST, B.Norman@THEZONE.NET writes:
>
><< even if they weren't,
> I'd need an Egyptologist to decipher the Sanskrit that VW uses to identify
> which lever does what. >>
>
>
>cant tell ya how many vans, (and '76-'79 buses, too) ive seen where owners
>have used those 3M labelmaker stickers to identify what each control
does.....
>
>chris
>
I think I smell a business opportunity here.  I just so happen to own one of
those plastic engraving machines, and a sticker maker.  The engraved plastic
is 1/16" thick, and I can make them anywhere from 1/2" x 1/2" (smaller might
be possible, I have not tried yet) up to 18" x 12".  Letter sizes range from
~3/16" to ~ 1" tall.  My stock sizes are 1/2" x 1 7/8", 1" x 3", 1" x 4", 2"
x 3", 1" x 10", and 4" x 10 ", but custom are available.  Prices in order
are: $2.00, $2.50, $3.00, $3.00, $3.50, and $12.00.  I may also cut list
members a deal by selling them at the price I sell them to suppliers for.  I
basically supplied our whole fishing fleet back home with the things because
they liked the flat rate pricing, instead of some letters per square inch
idea, which I have seen every where else.  The stickers are either 1/2" or
3/4" tall by however long you want it, and they are $0.25 / inch and $0.30 /
inch respectively.  If you are interested, email or ICQ (# 23350541) me
directly and I'll try to get you hooked up.  This may help me pay for a much
wanted tranny rebuild ( 091 starting to show strong signs of the 1st - 2nd
pin stretch) or an engine transplant. If you guys think this is a waste of
band width, then please rebuke me once ( I detest those strings ripping a
single person apart over a little wasted band width ) and I will fall back
into my place in this list.  If you want my business, then I thank you in
advance.

-Aaron Mckay
                                 mckayaa@oit.edu
                                 college student in mechanical
                                 engineering at Oregon Institute of
Technology
                                 '85 vanagon GL