<VV> welding in new door pillar support (Now Patch Panels)

[RoboMan91324 at aol.com]

Alan and others,

You are correct that making your own patch panels is a huge investment of 
time and effort and often results in an end product that requires more work when 
installed and/or doesn't look quite right.  

Have you checked with our "bone yard" vendors?  I believe that California 
Corvairs and possibly Arizona Charlie (and others) will section out certain parts 
for a price.  You can find a listing of vendors on the CORSA website and the 
back of the Communique.  You can contact them with the initial inquiry and 
then follow up with a photo or two and measurements of the section you want and 
go from there.  You don't want something that is a few inches short of what you 
need and be faced with some level of fabrication.

Alan, you should forward measurements in "English System" units rather than 
metric units to avoid confusion.  There is a rumor that you guys stuck us with 
your old system of weights and measures and then went metric as revenge for 
the Revolutionary War.  Is there any truth to that?

Doc
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In a message dated 12/5/2008 11:41:40 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
virtualvairs-request at corvair.org writes:

> Message: 4
> Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 18:59:48 -0000
> From: "Alan and Clare Wesson" <alan.wesson at atlas.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: <VV> welding in new door pillar support
> To: "Virtual Vairs" <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
> Message-ID: <646FBB123D5B499989B325BDEB961215 at ALAN>
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> If anyone felt like fabricating a short run of repair panels, I for one 
> would be prepared to contribute to the setup costs. My low-mileage 65 has 
> completely rotted-out A post bases, and although we can do the work, it would be 
> massively less time-consuming (and therefore expensive) if there were a repair 
> panel that saved us fabricating our own.
> 
> I propose an 'LM A post repair panel fund' - anyone else on board?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Alan


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