RE: [T3] Repop dash (and other reproduction parts)

["Jim Adney" <jadney@vwtype3.org>]

On 26 Jun 2007 at 12:54, King, Richard wrote:

> Do not forget to leave the dash in the sun for a while. It needs to be
> warmed up by the sun, then it is more flexible to install. At least that
> was my experience.

I didn't find that the problem was lack of flexibility. I felt that 
the problem was that the repro dashes were just a bit small and 
needed to be stretched to fit.

I suspect that this problem is the result of 2 things:

1) The molds for the copies were made from old OG dashes which had 
dried up and shrunk a bit.

and 

2) In order to come out right, the molds should actually have been 
made very slightly oversize, in order to compensate for shrinkage 
coming out of the mold.

So the repros got a double whammy and ended up significantly 
undersize.

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Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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