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Posted by KeithR (more from KeithR) on Wed, 26 Sep 2001 23:37:27
In Reply to: Crack on dashboard fix, Orson, Wed, 26 Sep 2001 17:54:44
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In my early days I tried and had limited success. The kits at the discount stores had some limitations. Forget using the tool that come with the little stick and piece of metal you heat with a flame or on the stove, they do not have enough heat to bond the repair with the existing material. The little plug in iron that comes with some of them is not much better. The best luck was with an "iron" from a hobby store used to put monocote shrink on model airplanes. If the crack was small and the foam underneath was not separating the job was acceptable, not something I would expect to get paid for. You could notice a spot if you looked close. If the crack had a split, I never found a way that met my taste. I tried all the fillers and that part worked, but, no matter what they show in the late night "infomercials" I could never get the grain to match, and the repair always had a shine that was not right. If you have a rare dash there are companies that will recover them to new, did my 70 OPEL GT that way, but it was a total recover, not a repair. With my SAAB's I have been the happiest getting a used one from a salvage yard "up north" where the sun is not so hard on them. Check the site sponsors. And when I get one I take very good care of it, cleaning and putting Lexol or a simalar preservative on it regularly and they have held up real good!(all my cracks were present when I got the cars)
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