Teeniest Spit progress :)

"BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires" (biturbo228) 06/18/2015 at 16:14 • Filed to: None

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Had a free hour or two, so I decided to retrim my blanking plate for the radio. This is a piece made by someone on my Triumph forum which replaces the radio slot with holes for two Smiths gauges. It’s a lovely thing, but the black shiny plastic it came in would look incongruous in my cockpit. So I changed that :)

Started by roughing up the finish so that glue would stick to it:

Then I cut out a section of the scrim foam I bought for re-upholstering the seats and glued it to the plate with a spray can of upholstery glue. This should give it a nice soft-touch:

Trimmed flush:

Glued to a patch of vinyl cut roughly to shape:

Trimmed closer to shape, with cutouts for the corners and mount holes:

Pulled tight and glued in place:

The final product with the holes cut out. The rough edge around the inside of the holes for the gauges should be hidden by the bezel when it’s all fitted:

Not bad I think :)

HammerheadFistpunch > BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires 06/18/2015 at 16:19

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I like it. Nuts to you VW, you aren’t the only soft touch dash in town.

MonkeePuzzle > BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires 06/18/2015 at 16:47

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hope your plans for the bezel to cover the tattered edge works better than mine. Lesson I learned, put in the piece before cutting the fabric

BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires > MonkeePuzzle 06/18/2015 at 18:23

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Bugger :S

If they don’t then I can quite easily do it all again. I’ve got 3 metres of vinyl, and 8 metres of scrim foam :)