Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 12:23:48 -0400
Reply-To: Duane Fahey <dfahey@VISUALAUTOMATION.COM>
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From: Duane Fahey <dfahey@VISUALAUTOMATION.COM>
Organization: Visual Automation, Inc.
Subject: Re: My Hula Girl won't stay on my dash
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I have the small versions of Gumby and Pokey, but they lay down flat
just fine... - Duane
John Parson wrote:
> I can only speak for myself, but I've found Goop to be an excellent answer to "Hula Girl Syndrome". Goop, if you're not familiar with it, is an adhesive that dries to a booger-like consistency and sticks wonderfully. Every Vanagoner should own a tube, along with duct tape and wire coathangers. Works just as well for your bobble-Jesus, if you're religiously inclined. Scrapes off with a fingernail later, should you become a Buddist.
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> --- On Mon 07/14, Alistair Bell < albell@UVIC.CA > wrote:
>From: Alistair Bell [mailto: albell@UVIC.CA]
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 08:53:28 -0700
>Subject: Re: My Hula Girl won't stay on my dash
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>At last, a good Vanagon tech question!<br><br>:)<br><br>I inherited an early '60s Hula Girl from my aunt. She originally had it on<br>the back shelf of her '62 Vauxhall Envoy - whoo-hoo! 2 tone blue and white,<br>three on the tree manual trans, trouble free electrics (ha!) but a<br>not-so-bullet proof ohv I4. I inherited that also, was lying under the<br>aforementioned Hula Girl.<br><br>Wish I had kept better care of the Envoy, was really a cute car (no sniggers<br>from the peanut gallery please, that means you G. Goff).<br><br>Anyhoo, the girl was glued to a 3"X4" or so bit of 3/8 plywood which allowed<br>it to stand on the Envoy shelf but not the Vanagon dash. I removed the<br>plywood and I tried 3M double sided tape on the hollow base of the girl, no<br>go. I finally had best success with polyurethane construction adhesive<br>gluing a quarter sized rare earth magnet (Lee Valley Tools) to the base of<br>her feet.<br><br>The material this girl was made of was some sort of fibrous Plaster of<br>Paris. After almost 40 years in a car she is getting frail (osteoporosis?),<br>her nose is chipped and she leans to one side. She also lost her grass skirt<br>a long time ago but my Aunt made a fetching little red crotchet number for<br>her.<br><br>Alistair<br><br><br>--<br>'82 Westy -> diesel converted to gas in '94<br>albell@uvic.ca<br>http://members.shaw.ca/albell<br><br><br><br><br><br>on 13/7/03 9:02 pm, Johnny DeVilla wrote:<br><br>> Ok this might be off in the left field, but it is important stuff. I<br>> have a hula girl in my Westy (like all good Westies should). And it<br>> won't stick to the dash. I have cleaned the area with alcohol then<br>> stuck her on..... few weeks later bam poor hula is lying on the ground.<br>> I keep changing out the tape on the bottom with double stick super<br>> adhesive tape.<br>> Has any one come across this?<br>><br>><br>><br>><br>><br>><br>><br>><br>> ----<br>> Johnny<br>> 81 Westy<br>
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