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Old 02-21-2014, 04:38 PM   #1
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Heater Control Lense

Is there any place I can pick one of these bad boys up? Mine's a bit cloudy and since I am taking painstaking details on restoring things I hate to put this back in looking like this...
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Old 02-22-2014, 09:16 PM   #2
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Nada?
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Old 02-22-2014, 09:31 PM   #3
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Re: Heater Control Lense

How are you planning to put it back in?...I assume you ground off the rivets.. ???
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Old 02-22-2014, 09:56 PM   #4
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I drilled out the rivets... the plan is to rivet it back in place... haven't tried the toothpaste trick - but it's not cloudy normal cloudy... the previous owner had "primed" the interior of the cab .... I suspect maybe he used chemical stripper or something in there because the surface of the plastic is literally pitted - the lense in the instrument cluster was in similar disarray... I picked up a new lense for the cluster - was just hoping someone had a line on a repop. I'll post in the WTB section...
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Old 02-22-2014, 10:18 PM   #5
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Re: Heater Control Lense

Wet sand and buff it. Riveting may crack the edges before the rivet pops.
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Old 02-23-2014, 11:39 AM   #6
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Re: Heater Control Lense

I did mine and I used a little dab of JB weld to replace it...its held now for 3 years just fine
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Old 02-24-2014, 06:26 PM   #7
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Thanks guys... JB Weld it is... I'll let you know how the rest goes...
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