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vwspijlbus
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 Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 12:12 pm Post subject: SO-42 owners: Is this repairable..? |
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SO-42 owners: Is this repairable..?
What would be wise to use to make it look like 'new'?
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///Mink
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| Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 12:14 pm Post subject: |
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| What is it? |
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RINC
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| Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 12:18 pm Post subject: |
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| What is it? |
X2. |
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zozo
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| Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 12:33 pm Post subject: |
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| It looks like some sort of external drain with a chain holding the cap so it doesn't get lost, and a lever to open and close the drain. Purely a guess. |
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Major Woody
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| Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 12:47 pm Post subject: |
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| It looks like some sort of external drain with a chain holding the cap so it doesn't get lost, and a lever to open and close the drain. Purely a guess. |
Why answer if you don't know? SO-42s don't have a water tank that could possibly drain out the side of the bus.
It's a european electrical input. He needs an answer from someone who has one on their camper. |
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jimmy1
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I would just bead blast it with glass beads.
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_monkey_
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| Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 1:55 pm Post subject: |
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| What Jimmy said. I would clean it up, but I'd use Scotch-Brite pads or the like. |
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Clara 
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| Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 2:00 pm Post subject: |
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| jimmy1 wrote: |
| I would just bead blast it with glass beads. |
I don't think bead blasting plastic (bakelite) is such a good idea.
at least, I think the one on Susan's 66 is bakelite or plastic.
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jimmy1
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it looks like cast alumn from the pix.
but if its bakelite, I wouldnt blast them.
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Sunroofgod
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| Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 2:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Forget repairing it...sell it to me and buy a new one. |
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vwspijlbus
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| Forget repairing it...sell it to me and buy a new one. |
I never found one for sale (in any shape).
I should of mentioned it in the first post. the post was't meant as a quiz. 
Anyway: in the picture you see a bakelite 220 Volt power input. It's located above lights on the left back on my Dutch 1967 SO-42.
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ritchiet002
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Found this with a quick online search------there must be more similar instructions out there if these do not apply to your situation.
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/freshwater/bakelit1.htm
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peaceful warrior
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http://bakelite_world_2001.tripod.com/itsbakeliteyouknow/id16.html
This guy seems like a Bakelite fanatic, and he has some advice about cleaning up bakelite.
BTW, if you knew it was Bakelite, why didn't you just state that? You would have saved the quiz answers, as you call it, and Major Woody would not be jumping down someones throat for trying to be helpful. 
I know that the old power lines used bakelite insulators until they found out that they breakdown in direct sunlight...Not in use anymore. You might want to keep that in mind when restoring the cap.
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vwspijlbus
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Thanks for the usefull replies!
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