TheSamba.com :: View topic - 69 dash pad & veneer installed. Question re glue

Sat Mar 24, 2018 5:29 pm

Hi everyone,

Got the veneer cover and dash pad in today.

Sun Mar 25, 2018 5:24 am

Question, was your dash cut to accept this radio?

If so, was the cut neat and clean or crooked and ragged?

Sadly, I see no visually acceptable quality way to remedy this miscut except by ordering annother wood grain dash cover and doing the task again.

If appearance isn't 100% important, take a look at weather stripping at a home center and see if there is any profile that might be acceptable to you.

There is a plastic bead that help to hold the vinyl pool liner into the top liner channel. A semi flexible bead with a serrated tang molded on.
Maybe with a little bit of creative trimming and some SEM vinyl paint you can create an acceptable solution?

Any local pool store should have a roll and sell it by the foot.

https://www.amazon.com/Beaded-Ground-Pool-Liner-Lock/dp/B002ZJ3LD2

Dave

Sun Mar 25, 2018 6:14 am

djkeev wrote: ...
There is a plastic bead that help to hold the vinyl pool liner into the top liner channel. A semi flexible bead with a serrated tang molded on.
Maybe with a little bit of creative trimming and some SEM vinyl paint you can create an acceptable solution?

Any local pool store should have a roll and sell it by the foot.

https://www.amazon.com/Beaded-Ground-Pool-Liner-Lock/dp/B002ZJ3LD2

Dave
Along that same line of thinking, perhaps you could use some black vinyl uphostery piping around the lip of the opening.

The "standard" size upholstery piping is 5/32 diameter which should be enough to cover that boo-boo in the faux-woodgrain plastic dash face, yet small enough to not look odd or out of place.
The piping is available in many other color choices, but IMO the black would make it look as if it were actually a part of the radio face.

Of course a small carefully laid bead of caulk would probably do the trick just as well, however it would be much more difficult to get the caulk bead laid down perfectly even.
Removing the radio at some future date would also be much more difficult if you use caulk rather than upholstery piping.

If you were really artistic, you could even attempt filling the gap with plastic filler and then painting a faux faux-woodgrain pattern over that filler to match the surrounding real faux-woodgrain dash face.
Back in the day prior to the invention of modern plastics (circa 1930s or 1940s), many automobile manufacturers painted a faux-woodgrain finish on the metal dashboard face and it often looked very good.
... but then if you were that talented, you probably wouldn't have made that cut with such ragged edges in the first place. :wink: )

Sun Mar 25, 2018 6:21 am

KGCoupe, your interior beading looks like the perfect solution!

Is that the same beading that encircles the Ghia door cards?

Dave

Sun Mar 25, 2018 6:40 am

I just searched for any uphostery piping, and can only assume that it is very similar to what was originally used to trim around the door cards.

Sun Mar 25, 2018 8:24 am

djkeev wrote: Question, was your dash cut to accept this radio?

If so, was the cut neat and clean or crooked and ragged?

Dave

Yes, dash had its factory opening. My fascia was neatly cut but needed a slight trim when glued on. Unfortunately the blade had its own plan. I am going to fab a stainless plate and glue it around the opening so as to cover up my screw up.

Sun Mar 25, 2018 10:27 am

I picked up some vinly wrap and will trim just enough around the plastic bezel. Should be good. Pics to follow