Dash Pad Recovering Options

[altitude411]

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[McMark]

How could you?
It's technical.

Wow. Nice response.

It's just a dashboard, not an Atlas V rocket.

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You obviously don't understand. Veekry is our new resident answer guy -- we just need to work on making those answers comprehendible.

[MoveQik]

Sure,the production tooling of the method Porsche used back then was state of the art.
The puffiness you refer to is the perception of the part's radii.
The tool used was chemically etched with acid to remove material from the mold surface.
Likely a silkscreen technique rather than a photographic method.
Anyone with automotive trim experience would know that.
It is a very nice result and the ashtray delete option is convenient.
Again,labour intensive.

I beg to differ. Everybody knows that vinyl is one of the alkenyl functional groups. Thus, as a result, applying negative pressure to the vinylic(which it is often referred to on a carbon skeleton due to the positions of sp2-hybridized carbons) will cause a raised-grain that is commonly mistaken for the puffiness that you mention.

Or, like mepstein said, it could be because of the padding.

[veekry9]

Moldmaking,tool+die+die-cast,light to heavy for decades.
I'm pretty sure there are some members here able to comprehend manufacturing methods.
"How to drill a hole",I've witnessed 20yr vets fuck a 40K block of 4340 putting a hole in the wrong place.
The bill for recovery was 110K.So yeah,there is always a screwup somewhere.You can hear the sound of them.
no yoo poo poo.As a child.Immature.

[Mikey914]

Sure,the production tooling of the method Porsche used back then was state of the art.
The puffiness you refer to is the perception of the part's radii.
The tool used was chemically etched with acid to remove material from the mold surface.
Likely a silkscreen technique rather than a photographic method.
Anyone with automotive trim experience would know that.
It is a very nice result and the ashtray delete option is convenient.
Again,labour intensive.

These are 2 different techniques. Porsche made the dashes by forming the vinyl into the mold, then inserting a substructure into the top of the mold, closing it and injecting high density foam into the cavity.

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Just Dashes take the core, grinds down the vinyl, applies a thermally activated glue and forms the vinyl over a thin pad to take up imperfections. Yes, it will have some give unlike the OEM, and as you stretch the vinyl the pattern will elongate. But short of a large custom tool it's a good down and dirty way to reuse the core, you just have to play with the sag in the inst cluster to to make it not sag. Very labor intensive, inexpensive to set up (relatively so).

[veekry9]

Exactomundo. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
The problem evident is the lack of uv resistance in the old formula vinyl,can't hack the solar radiation.
Even the expanded foam underlay turns to dust.
The inside of the vinyl was given an adhesive coating before the injection cycle so the foam would adhere to the vinyl.
Funny thing,the tool would be much less expensive to produce today in comparison to then,
They used Deckel pantographs to do the cavity.'67-68 you see.
Hydraulic copy mills were just being introduced then.
It was '72 when we got our first VDF NC tape lathe,optical toolsetting.
60 hp bulldozer,I loved that machine.

[GregAmy]

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You obviously don't understand. Veekry is our new resident answer guy -- we just need to work on making those answers comprehendible.

No prob, actually sounds like he knows what he's talking about.

But I see little need for - or value in - being a condescending c**k. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)

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