Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 13:55:32 -0800
Reply-To: BenT Syncro <syncro@GMAIL.COM>
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From: BenT Syncro <syncro@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Friday rant: fabric stores and sewing
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Let's keep our focus on Vanagon upholstery. Lest we start having people writing things like, "Well, Elizabeth TAYLOR was a woman!"
"I came. I sew. I made my own interior for my Vanagon." That would be more like it.
;-)
BenT
Mod
On Jan 31, 2011, at 1:22 PM, Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> You're lucky... at least I have a wife and mother who are good sewers
> (hey, that's probably why they use the word "seamstress") to ask
> questions of, but as they both say, "you're doing things now that we
> don't know how to do."
>
> : )
>
> Jim
>
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Joe T. <vanagon85@gmail.com> wrote:
>> This is a very timely topic...
>>
>> My mother-in-law and I are heading to the fabric store next weekend to pick
>> out the new interior for my Vanagon. She's offered to teach me how to do
>> the whole thing. I'm very excited to get into upholstery and to learn a new
>> skill!
>>
>> Joe T.
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 9:18 AM, Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@cox.net> wrote:
>>
>>> ---- Mark Dearing <VWBrain@AOL.COM> wrote:
>>>> In a message dated 1/29/2011 10:40:34 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
>>>> fonman4277@COMCAST.NET writes:
>>>>
>>>> I am one of seven siblings
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> hey david I am also 0ne of seven. my father flew P38s during WW2 ,
>>>> became chief of construction on the N&W railway , got into VW buses
>>> cause it
>>>> was the only thing that could carry all of the family. he is the only
>>> person
>>>> I know that has flipped 2 buses. Course we had to learn how to fix them,
>>> I
>>>> rebuilt my first engine at 14 , was driving them even earlier around the
>>>> neighborhood and woods. Unlike jeff I really miss my father, he would
>>> love
>>>> my vanagon westy. later mark d
>>>
>>> Well, unlike most on this list, I am not deep into mechanics, but the
>>> basics were required when we were kids, and I required them of my daughter.
>>> but I go to a pro for anything beyond basics. I do carry a tool kit with
>>> me, and by having the camper in tip top shape on departure for a trip, I can
>>> keep it going and usually get out of a jam (haven't really had much in the
>>> way of a jam, just some concerns that have never gotten me stuck somewhere
>>> for long). But getting into transmissions and engine innards, or even r&r
>>> major parts, I generally don't do it. When I needed a radiator, I had it
>>> done at a shop. I'll be adding an external oil cooler from "ten cent life
>>> before summer," and I don't know right now whether I'll do it myself or hire
>>> it out. I do have a great guy who doesn't mind that I do a few things
>>> myself who does my heavy stuff. He will even advise me on things I do
>>> myself.
>>>
>>> mcneely
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Joe T.
>> '85 Wolfsburg Westy Subie 2.2
>>
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