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Re: switch refurbish 2016/11/11 12:23:50 (permalink)
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'The Polish guy' is the only person I have seen doing this (apart from JR or course).
His ad's for refurb units are normally all over ebay.
I thought you needed to be careful though as some of them are arse about/upside down on the rocker switch.
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Re: switch refurbish 2016/11/11 14:15:38 (permalink)
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he gives you both lhd drive and aus rhd stickers
 
if you look real close stick ya face in them and know what to look for then yes you will tell they are stickers
but at a glance as mention and even on dash you would be struggling to tell they are stickers.
you would also have know about them  and be looking for the sticker to even notice it ...
im real happy with the way they turned out and will do me
 
 
sure there not perfect and not original but for the price of nos id rather use the stickers and save my cash for more better things to spend the cash on  saved me 1400 considering most nos switches are just under the 300 dollar mark which is a bloody rip off
 
be nice if they had the same sticker set to renew vents and dash facia with a would grain sticker as well
 
might even go take dash to local vynil printer and see if they can make a sticker machine cut to do dash facia
 
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Re: switch refurbish 2016/11/11 16:34:47 (permalink)
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Personally I like JR approach of doing the Chrome correct with chrome. That's very original. Then sticker the switch which if time and heat bugger it you can just stick a new sticker on if required. I've looked at spray chroming as well but at $1500 for the setup is out of the question for the amount of chrome on the Capri, and I mean chroming process not just chrome in spray can.
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Re: switch refurbish 2016/11/13 23:46:35 (permalink)
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I had a fascia done by the hydro dip method sadly I never expected it to work as well as it did so I didn't match the wood grain patten properly, but in the stick your head in the window test it looks streets better then the way it was. The drawback is you loose the texture of the dash as it is sealed like a paint job.




 

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Re: switch refurbish 2016/11/14 20:13:29 (permalink)
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i also was going to try the hydro dipping as well as few freinds do it to the 1/5 scale rc shells 
 
 
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Re: switch refurbish 2016/11/16 21:08:29 (permalink)
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I was curious so I had a look at uk sold listings.  The market price for a nos switch is around 45 pounds, a long way from the price being asked by the aussie seller.  I wonder if he knows that some of his switches are for LHD.  Did aussie capris ever come with heated rear screen and hazard lights? 
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Re: switch refurbish 2016/11/16 21:25:58 (permalink)
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No Australian capris had the hazard or or heater screen

Capri The car I always promised myself
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Re: switch refurbish 2016/11/16 21:33:55 (permalink)
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a lot of the Capri gear advertised by a few sellers as NOS on ebay are seriously in dream land.
If you can photo it with a Ford printed bag, then add an extra 700%, no you don't get the Ford bag as I need that for my next con. There must be some idiots around who buy it though.
 
I thought NOS meant the item was new, as in, I haven't had it on a car before and it's unused.
More like Never On Shelf.
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Re: switch refurbish 2016/11/17 00:01:54 (permalink)
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I've bought a lot of NOS stuff over the years, at good prices, never had a problem and always got the box.  But yeah the some of the pricing now will mean never off shelf.  Good auctions still come up though.
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