Mark E. White asked "hubcaps. How do you put them on without putting a big dent in them." I don't know how serious you are about this, but I saw a guy at one of those multi million dollar antique auto exhibits puting on a hub cap and I had to ask what he had in his hand. It was fascinating. He said they sprayed the outside surface of the cap with mold release (silicon spray will do I think) and then made a partial mold of part of the outside surface using epoxey body puddy. When it cures and is shaped to thick piece about a 5 inches long by an inch and a half wide cap mating surface, you have a non destructive way to load the hub cap with a rubber hammer's impact energy. Mine have the little dents you mentioned. Cheers, John Wakefield
|
Please note - During the past 17 years of operation, several gigabytes of
Vanagon mail messages have been archived. Searching the entire collection
will take up to five minutes to complete. Please be patient!
Return to the archives @ gerry.vanagon.com
The vanagon mailing list archives are copyright (c) 1994-2011, and may not be reproduced without the express written permission of the list administrators. Posting messages to this mailing list grants a license to the mailing list administrators to reproduce the message in a compilation, either printed or electronic. All compilations will be not-for-profit, with any excess proceeds going to the Vanagon mailing list.
Any profits from list compilations go exclusively towards the management and operation of the Vanagon mailing list and vanagon mailing list web site.