Paul:
Hey! Now THAT is a technique! I'm gonna do it....and photograph the whole
procedure for my homepage-in-progess. AND add some sort of thin padding to
get it back to original. I asked a long time ago on the list if anyone had
done this.
It's about time someone answered me!!! ;)
Restoration of original parts at home can be exciting....hehe.
Dan
73 B, with floppy original visors
>I rebuilt mine for the same reasons, ..couldn't find decent used
>ones and the price of new ones just didn't flush.
>
>I carefully split the edge open at one end (pin end not swivel/mount edge)
>and removed the innards. I took out all the horsehair, but left the wire
>frame.
>I cut out a piece of cardboard and taped/glues it to the wire frame.
>a little super glue on the edge after re-inserting the innards back into
>the vinyl
>and you can't tell they were ever opened.
>
>Paul Tegler
>OB - 1973 MGBGT (Blaze Red, (orange))
>YB - 1973 MGBGT (Primrose Yellow)
>Millersville, MD (South of Baltimore, North of Annapolis)
>wizardz@amdyne.net
>http://www.amdyne.net/~ptegler/mgmain.htm
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Dan Ray <danray@bluegrass.net>
>To: G Graham <ggraham@edcen.ehhs.cmich.edu>
>Cc: mgs@autox.team.net <mgs@autox.team.net>
>Date: Sunday, March 28, 1999 5:50 PM
>Subject: Re: Visors
>
>
>>Gary,
>>I have a feeling you won't find anything better, used that is, than the
>>floppy originals that I have. I've looked, and visors are one of those
>>things that you just don't find "good used" (like ashtrays and map
lights).
>>The horsehair stuff tends to wilt with age, mine resemble black plastic
>bags
>>in the shape of visors.
>>I'd suggest you just look for a good deal on some new visors.
>>I'm still debating a try at shooting some of that hardening foam insulator
>>stuff that one finds at home stores into my old visors and pressing them
>>into shape. I may give it a try, and send my results on to the list, but
>>it's sorta low on my list, since sunvisors in a roadster are like,
>>well....you know.
>>Cheers.
>>Dan
>>73 B
>>
>>
>>>On a lighter note . . . .
>>>
>>>Does anyone have a set of MGB sun visors aching for a new home? I have
>>>the hardware mounted on the windscreen frame, but nothing to put in
>>>them.
>>>
>>>TIA
>>>
>>>Gary
>>>74B (running on 4 cylinders, now -- thanks Lawrie!)
>>>
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