Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 11:32:12 -0800
Reply-To: "SDF ( Scott Daniel Foss )" <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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From: "SDF ( Scott Daniel Foss )" <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Organization: Cosmic Reminders
Subject: Re: Accelerator Pedal Attachment?
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Depending on what metal you use..
shaping it, hammering it into shape, is easy.
it also does not have to be one continuous piece of metal ..
can be a few overlapping pieces.
just get creative.
I suspect that not many vanagon owners have been making things by
shaping materials by hand for 50 + years. It's fun, easy, and almost free.
don't even need a lot of tools..
a bench vice, a grinder ...drill ....some tin snips .....hammers ...
materials ..those are just laying around .........literally. I find So
Many Great Things that people just through away or leave laying around.
including tools.
or tools in flea markets ....good hand tools are pennies on the dollar
in flea markets ..
even good power tools are 25 cents on the dollar is a few good flea markets.
here's a perfect example...I see a couple with some 'stuff' for sale.
There's this weird looking band saw ..never saw one like it. They want
15 bucks ..we plug it in the wall...it's made of all metal, Milwaukii
brand.. a high quality not made in your-know-where .
try to run it and the blade jumps off. So I get it for 10 bucks.
bring it home...futz around with it , get it working perfectly ..
turns out ..it's a hand held power hack saw !
no more back and forth ...just lay the blade on the work, pull the
trigger ..easy-peasy.
at my local serious tool store ..they're selling brand new ones, same
brand ..in the 150 to 200 dollar range.
that's how easy it is to get good tools because so few people value them
or fix or build much any more.
On 2/8/2014 11:20 AM, JRodgers wrote:
> My question in all this is - how does one best fix this when a chunk of
> the metal is missing.
>
> My van rusted through right under the pedal - but the two points where
> the pop-rivets were is still there - and I temporarily fixed that. But
> the hole under the pedal extends into the tunnel next to it. So that
> means bending a piece of metal into a sort of "L" shape and then pound
> it with a hammer and shaping tools to form it to the contours of the
> floor - not an easy task. Applying the epoxy bond would be the easy part.
>
> I'm open to ideas.
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
>
> On 2/7/2014 9:34 PM, Jim Arnott wrote:
>> The pedal came loose at the floor. ETKA shows pop rivets as the
>> attaching fasteners. Can anyone verify this? (Pop rivets will make
>> fixing it MUCH easier, but if they’re threaded fasteners, I’ll have
>> to come up with a better failed fastener removal strategy than a
>> punch and a BFH.)
>>
>> Does anyone have hands on experience? (I’m going to be fixing this in
>> a snowstorm. If I don’t have to pull the frozen carpet, that would be
>> wonderful.)
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Jim.
>>
>
