Date:         Mon, 18 Feb 2002 16:31:27 -0800
Reply-To:     Brian Cochran <rangerbrian@HOTMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Brian Cochran <rangerbrian@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Flaking paint on stove control panel discussion
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Hello fellow vanagoneers of the westy variety.  Since I bought my westy, the
brown paint on the stove knob and battery life panel has been slowly flaking
off bit by bit.  So, I think here very soon I will take it off and paint it.
  I wonder if any of you westy owners out there have ran into this problem?

There are two pieces to paint.  The main panel and the attached
battery/water level gauge panel.  Both have labelling.  I would like to keep
things stock in appearance, so I'm wondering if there are stickers out there
to replace the labels?  I guess I can just make these labels with Adobe
Illustrator. That way I can customize the water levels to spell out the
volume of water left.  I can never remember what gallon range the red light
can mean.

Any painting ideas?  I'm going to try to match the paint close as I can.
Any thoughts on this?

Getting the rust smoothed out for repainting is probably the hardest job.
But, I haven't removed this part before, so maybe it's a bear!

I'm interested in any input
thanks
brian
84 westy
seattle





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