Re: Vacation Car - 56 Patrician

Posted by Leeedy On 2020/5/6 17:49:14
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PackardDon wrote:
Interesting to learn that the vents are plastic! I thought they were zinc castings as that's what mine feel like and fortunately my dash is hanging upside down on the wall so they're safe. They should be easy reproduce, though, so I wonder if anyone has tried. If not, I might give it a go.


Seeing a factory air dash with the vents still in it and hanging upside-down is precisely what was so shocking!!!! Probably half of the vents I have known of over all these years that were damaged got that way because they either fell out of a dash in storage... or were dropped. Easiest way I can think of to demolish these brittle and very complicated parts.

I have tried to save as many of these A/C vents I have found over the years. But I continue to see them destroyed.

And as someone who has designed and actually made automotive items on an OEM level, I certainly would not want to try repopping these very complicated vents. I knew someone who thought they could repop the vent and they made a set that kinda-sorta looked okay... until the first time they sat in the sun at a car show. Ended up looking like macaroni and bacon.

I take my hat off to anyone who could actually make these components... have them workable, proper weight, looking appropriate, be durable and not hock their house to do it.

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