Every days a school day as they say. I don't think there is anything more annoying than having to paint again but as long as it results in a good finish at the end all the extra work gets forgotten pretty quickly. 

Have you thought about trying a foam roller on a panel to see how it comes out? I know its the go to for the timber varnish products my work makes to get the coatings as smooth and stipple free as possible before the final polish. Though those varnishes tend to be a lot softer than 2 pack!

Yeah, stupid stuff happens.. I primered the roof on the rally pack last week and got a bunch of reactions where the primer sat in the sanding grooves and started lifting the paint , same primer and same thinners , very odd, it's fixed now after a hard sanding back and re primer.

Rollering primer on is becoming a thing, USA started it now it's world wide. keep thinking I should do it to the rally pack so it saves on overspray and thinners to clean the gun plus it puts a fat layer on the panel and as long as it's applied to a good smoothish coat, it'll be easy to flat back. Deano has roller his whole car so far, I give plenty of credit for that but is something I won't do with top coat. I did once on a old Renault 12 Gordini rally car back in the 80s, roll on the Endrust blue and white actually came up good at 25ft away !

totally a school day on most days.
Problem is I seem to get detention as well.
 
yes I've given foam rollers a go in the past doing a few boats also with 2 pack rollering.
Mainly the Unipro white ones with orange tips.
 
I found that the foam often left micro air blisters in the paint, where it pulled off during the application. Like fish eyes, the only way to avoid it was to add more thinners. And then, the rollers would eventually disintegrate, and chunks would come off. Lots of trial and error.
 
The NZ manufacturer Altex guide was to use a 5mm mohair roller.
This is the brushing polyeurethane I use:
https://altexboatpaint.com/frontend/products.cfm?page=product&productid=5 
 
I do use a brushing agent though, which I think is basically just thinner, and gives the paint more time to level flat while it pulls tight. Even though in practice you get a good working time, as soon as i've rollered the first area down, i still get nervous and try to put paint everywhere.
 
This ends up with multiple wet edges to think about, while looking for runs and hoping all the while youve mixed up enough but not too much paint.
 
Reactions are a pain. My 3M full facemask is even letting condensation droplets form now, to add to the funtimes.
 
USA always copy us aussies..:) 

A handy trick for the glovebox is to add a light. I did this to my MK2 by using some commodore parts like the door switch and glovebox light, easy mod and with doing as the glovebox is quite deep, I lost a cat in there once!

thats a good idea.
A mate was wrecking a peugoet/skoda maybe VW? eurowagon, and I grabbed some of the interior led overhead lighting and loom before it went off to the crushers. Thought it might be flash to put some downlights in the vent pod when the time comes.
 

Geelong had another swapmeet on the weekend.
This saw a second pair of Cibie Oscars, and now a pair of IPF's added to the collection.
The van might need 3up/3 down brackets at this rate!
Actually I think you can only have 2 extra forward facing drivings light for rego.
 
 
 
And finally, the postie dropped in loom crimps from the UK. These will let you add an extra wire for the tacho into std Ford cluster plug when you dont have a Ghia or RS loom. I got spares if anyone down the track needs one.

Apart from that, I've nearly got a wiper motor running enough to fit the loom back in.
 

Deano, are these the individual crimps I was going to butcher the dash for when you were chasing them?

yes Mark they are, just the crimps.
 
It's taken this long to get some from the UK, first order got lost apparently.

Don't ya hate that... They'll prolly arrive in a few months if ever

time to help CPR on the forum before curtains.
 
Still farting around with the wiring loom, decifering wiring colours and what was done in it's previous lives.
There was power seeming everywhere around the circuit, but with buggerall operating.
For all intents, it was dead.
In an 'Ah Ha' moment, I figured of course it needs more earths to test.So I earthed the wiper motor body, and got a couple od dash lights on, for an instant. 
No clues as to why:

Its nearly to the point that the remaining may actually be easier to test in the car rather than on the bench.
 
There was also a suspicous 'customisation' where 2 feed circuits where roughly soldered bridged together, with a pretty light guage wire. I havent yet determined if they should be, just taped them up while testing.
Brown and Brown with a white stripe probs isn't interchangeable.(s)