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Adriel · #46 12-22-2020, 05:28 PM

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I do think that the social aspect of mechanical works is strong ~ back when I was a working Journeyman mechanic I'd bang out more jobs than anyone else in the sjop and no comebacks either .

Glad then I made the choice I did and will stick with it.

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Brake works are more effort than expen$ive these days, I look up the part numbers and inter changes then I can hunt up the correct parts for serious discounts ~ I was a parts man off and on for many years .

With the Squareback, yes, knew the part number logic and go hunt up parts, however, sometimes spend so much time hunting down deals, was money really saved?

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I know bupkis about radio repairs but 1950's technology is pretty basic if not crude, most of the time you need to replace all the capacitors and the speaker, I always match the correct impedance and these days there are better quality speakers available, the trick is finding the correct size and mounting then you're pretty much golden .

I just did this in my truck and am loving listening to music clear as a bell =8-) .

Seems to me you know more than I do!

I look at all those capacitors, resistors, transformers, and such and find it intimidating. However, I don't find FI intimidating.

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I can often take the volume potentiometer apart, clean it and make it work as new again, I can clean the breaker points in vibrators but prefer to replace them with modern solid state ones .

See I don't even know what or where these vibrators are, certainly don't know how to convert to solid state. Does this change affect the sound?

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A lot of fixing older things is simply taking them apart, cleaning and making very simple repairs then re assemble, lubricate and adjust and you're good to go .

Yes, unless something crumbles from age.

I do enjoy this, just didn't think of electronics in the same way, good point.

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Radios not so much because one you've replaced much there's a whole deal of adjusting that I don't really understand very well .

What needs to be adjusted on a radio?

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Variety is good, as they say : just don't let your paramour find out

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Or maybe the variety needs to be with the two of you.

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The 36HP engine case is kaput as a connecting rod came through it but I'm sure the heads are O.K., I already have too many old 36HP engines, I should try to sell them I think .

An old friend from back when I had the VW shop and he was in high school recently gave me a bunch of 36HP parts including an complete 1954 (I think) engine, I selected a really nice flywheel and used it on the rebuilt engine I need to install .

What a bummer! Just think if someone had not gotten greedy, there be one more 36HP case available.

As to the other 36HP engines and parts, why have these if the 113 is the last project?

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Yeah, life is a bee-otch, if I told my entire pathetic life story you'd use up boxes of Kleenex (or, not

) but I choose to look forward, life is to be enjoyed, not tolerated or suffered .

I'm very, VERY lucky to be alive so I don't want to waste a minute feeling sorry for my self, I have things to do while I'm still ambulatory

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Exactly!

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Reverse lamps were a factory / dealer VW accessory from the early 1950's, yes they became standard in the 1967 model year (thanx U.S. government) I do like them and use them....

I suppose I could hunt up one of those old early typ III speedo cable activated reverse light switches, I just prefer to do things a particular way is all .

Seems then the answer is to pull the whole driveline, as anything else be doing it half measure. I wish I was back in Sandy Eggo, I come up and lend a hand.

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There are certainly junk shops near you ! they're everywhere, maybe the sign says 'antiques' but the stuff inside is what's critical and I find lots of really good tools and things when an 'antique' store doesn't know what the hell it is...

I was being literal...

I didn't think to look for tools at antique and thrift shops, be an opportunity to get out of the house, once the pandemic is over.

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My psycho-beech ex girlfriend was a black belt thrift store shopper , she'd always find new and near new clothes in her size, I have no idea how she managed but we'd hit up thrift stores every time we traveled .

Of course, she was also crazier than the proverbial shytehouse rat and violet to boot so eventually I had to give her the gate in spite and hands down the best sex I've ever experienced .

I saw her in traffic in South Central Los Angeles a few weeks ago, still cute as a button, not a lot or 60 year old women can do that .

Sigh .

Times like this I am glad I pursued academics over women.

Though now for some reason the older I get the more I want to settle down and have a great partner, a life long companion.

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Anyway, life goes on apace, that's the way it should be, just learn to not have so many things they own you instead of the other way 'round

If life doesn't go on, there is a problem... As to things owning me, that's why I had questioned saving things for someone that may never exist.

vwnate1 · #47 12-22-2020, 09:57 PM

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I love it! You have a pure style of communication Nate. It speaks volumes.
It’s almost a natural law: Bombshells are bat**** crazy. What’s that all about?!

Thanx Bill ;

Many don't seem to appreciate my way of mangling the English language .

I think the bombshells are crazy because they can be.....

I know my Sweet is sassy and always has been, she's now well past her prime yet would cause a riot if I ever took her to the Senior Center....

I'm very lucky she allows me to share her life, good looks and hot sex is fun when you're young but eventually I wanted someone I could talk to as well .

BTW : I've dated red heads too and every one was put there in some way or another .

(does 'speaks volumes' mean I talk too much ?

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vwnate1 · #48 12-22-2020, 10:22 PM

12.22.20, the system says this message is "too short" (?!) so I'm trying a different way to post...

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Glad then I made the choice I did and will stick with it.

With the Squareback, yes, knew the part number logic and go hunt up parts, however, sometimes spend so much time hunting down deals, was money really saved?

Because of the way I am, I'll search out things anyway, I might as well look for things I'll use .

Seems to me you know more than I do!

I look at all those capacitors, resistors, transformers, and such and find it intimidating. However, I don't find FI intimidating.

I bet you're far better educated than I ~ I know a lot of things but the principle thing I learned as I educated myself is : I know so damn little .

A vibrator is a crude transformer that boosts the volts to operate the plates in a vacuum tube .

Vacuum tubes have heaters (like the coils in a light bulb) that use low vehicle voltage and then plates that require far more than 12 volts DC so the old tech solution was a vibrator, sort of like the ignition buzz box on a "T" Model Ford in the teens and twenties .

I hope you never have to fool with a tube radio

fuel injection differs, I know somewhat how to keep older BOSCH D-Jetronic F.I. running O.K. and the BOSCH CIS (?) system that uses an airbox and clock wheel is (IMO) a good robust system that's easily peaked and tweaked, of course it's also dead easy to screw it up so badly the engine stops running altogether....

See I don't even know what or where these vibrators are, certainly don't know how to convert to solid state. Does this change affect the sound?

NO - vibrators only increase the voltage .

Yes, unless something crumbles from age.

I do enjoy this, just didn't think of electronics in the same way, good point.

What needs to be adjusted on a radio?

O.K., WAY above my pay grade here, I hope I don't make a hash of this: an AM radio receives signals and them internally amplifies them, the circuitry to do this works in a combination of coils, the tubes and soon so when you change a part you're supposed to 'trim' it so everything works in unison and you get clear sound, not static .

That's incredibly simplistic but I hope it gives you an idea .

I remember in the 1960's when I fooled around with WWII surplus aircraft radios, mostly "ARC5"s ~ they were pretty simple and could be converted to ham radio (IIRC) by fooling with them and in one old radio tech magazine there was a fascinating article about making the trim adjustments by laying a small light bulb on top of the coils and adjusting them until they reached the proper brightness ~ again this is like 1/10th of the total thing you have to do, I was young and broke and until the 1970's brandy new ARC5 radios were maybe $10, often far less .

Don't be too impressed with my effort, look in the build threads to see what a real craftsman can do .

I'm just a Journeyman mechanic who likes to tinker and learn .

Or maybe the variety needs to be with the two of you.

Yes, that too ~ I've never been one who needs a constant rotation of partners, either we match up or I move on, no big thing .

I had to let a few rich Ladies go because I knew I'd get bored no matter how much they wanted to support me .

What a bummer! Just think if someone had not gotten greedy, there be one more 36HP case available.

As to the other 36HP engines and parts, why have these if the 113 is the last project?

Well ;

Remember I was a vintage VW enthusiast long before anyone cared about the early models so I naturally took home all the things everyone else tossed out, I used them for decades and after I stopped driving air cooled VW's I sold parts at swap meets for a few years and made some good $ and never gouged anyone . then I bough this one last Beetle and began digging in the dusty ad squirrel poop covered boxes in the garage and Lo ! pretty much everything I needed was in there, little bits and bobs that (for me) make all the difference . I even found some late 1950's wiper assemblies that I scavenged tiny little N.L.A. parts from when I spent two days re working the entire wipers, linkage and all, they now work as-new again .

Exactly!

Seems then the answer is to pull the whole driveline, as anything else be doing it half measure. I wish I was back in Sandy Eggo, I come up and lend a hand.

See now, that's what keeps me from getting started ~ I have one partially disassembled vintage LBC back there, it was supposed to be a major brake job but the 'might as wells' took over and ran away, the engine and tranny have been out for a few years now and I'd hate to kill this old Beetle the same way .

I was being literal...

I didn't think to look for tools at antique and thrift shops, be an opportunity to get out of the house, once the pandemic is over.

Times like this I am glad I pursued academics over women.

Though now for some reason the older I get the more I want to settle down and have a great partner, a life long companion.

Women are good , just don't let yourself get too caught in in the switches ~ I used to have a beautiful psycho-B*tch girlfriend the sex was the best Id ever had and we had the same strange childhoods so we saw eye to eye on most things but when we wound up on the front page of the newspaper I realized it was time to step off .

If life doesn't go on, there is a problem... As to things owning me, that's why I had questioned saving things for someone that may never exist.

vwnate1 · #49 12-22-2020, 10:29 PM

In a nut shell, German vehicles more so than any other ones I've touched can be taken apart and cleaned, adjusted and repaired further than you can get the necessary parts for so unless a thing is fried or bashed you can usually take it apart and fix it by simply (!) 'peaking and tweaking' it .

This is what I do to almost every vehicle I own ~ I find them cheap, usually not running or neglected and return them to proper service then maybe up grade a bit here and there, usually by using other factory parts~ I wish I was allowed to post attachments, my little 2001 Ford Ranger is coming along very nicely .

I'm doing cosmetics now and my Sweet took her first ride in it on a few weeks and loves the simple comfort things I did for her and it looks better too .

Adriel · #50 12-22-2020, 10:31 PM

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I know my Sweet is sassy and always has been, she's now well past her prime yet would cause a riot if I ever took her to the Senior Center....

I'm very lucky she allows me to share her life, good looks and hot sex is fun when you're young but eventually I wanted someone I could talk to as well .

I am glad you two are so happy together.

Maybe I am getting older, as I rather have someone to talk to more than sex...

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BTW : I've dated red heads too and every one was put there in some way or another .

I can hear what you are saying.

My Sister and I are both redheads, by the way. It took me a long time to accept I have a bit of an edge to me and learn to put the energy into doing good.

Adriel · #51 12-22-2020, 10:36 PM

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In a nut shell, German vehicles more so than any other ones I've touched can be taken apart and cleaned, adjusted and repaired further than you can get the necessary parts for so unless a thing is fried or bashed you can usually take it apart and fix it by simply (!) 'peaking and tweaking' it .

That is probably one of the reasons I went back to German, intuitively knew it be my guess. I wonder if it also applies to all manufactured items, such as radios?

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This is what I do to almost every vehicle I own ~ I find them cheap, usually not running or neglected and return them to proper service then maybe up grade a bit here and there, usually by using other factory parts~ I wish I was allowed to post attachments, my little 2001 Ford Ranger is coming along very nicely .

I'm doing cosmetics now and my Sweet took her first ride in it on a few weeks and loves the simple comfort things I did for her and it looks better too .

Fantastic! Congratulations!

I bet that felt so great. What were some of these things you did for her? How much more to go?

vwnate1 · #52 12-23-2020, 12:46 AM

I added door cards with map pockets and a passenger side assist handle (she has rheumatoid arthritis and needs help getting into anything) sun visors with vanity mirrors , lots and lots of cleaning, I added rear cab speakers (this is the base, stripper model truck) using all factory parts including the harness and screws etc. ~ I spent some time unwrapping the harness and re jiggering it so it fit as original and looked original, I had to take the interior 1/2 way out, lucky for my broken down old butt the seats are split else I'da never been able to remove them without damaging the paint on the door sills...

Of course a premium DC player out of a high end model...

Factory so it fits, works / plays well and thieves won't want to steal it, no one wants stock sound systems no matter how good they sound .

(try a nice original Becker in your Mercedes, with new speakers they're fantastic unlike VW's low co$t Blaupunkt units .)

N.O.S. headlights, I tried polishing the originals but they were still not optically pure so I hunted up the correct Ford P/N and then searched until I found some N.O.S. ones instead of the crappy cheapo Chinese ones, then while I had the front fascia apart I hunted up a N.O.S. chrome grille (this base model had a molded in beige color and looked like it had leprosy), always some little thing to clean adjust or make better .

I thought I'd cover all this before, sorry .

I had a time getting the old steering wheel off, in the end I had to use heat .

I *think* I finally found a source for the factory typ of vinyl (? non cloth) seat covers and will have to see if I still remember how to change those, they're not slip covers, they're original typ that should last another twenty years and 120,000 miles ....

Typical DIY hobbyist typ things, knowhutimean ?

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Germans tend to have screws, nuts, bolts , clips and so on where after you get deeper in other have rivets or swaged parts that are not supposed to be taken apart .

I dunno if she's so happy with me, I've had some seriously awful women in my life, so when I found this one I try hard to keep her happy...

Someone simpatico is better than good sex, there's always horny women around, as you get old there are way more women than men to choose from .

I tell my foster boys : is you're unhappy with your G.F. relax ~ they're like city buses : another will be along shortly and maybe much cleaner...

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Adriel · #53 12-23-2020, 10:06 PM

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I added door cards with map pockets and a passenger side assist handle (she has rheumatoid arthritis and needs help getting into anything) sun visors with vanity mirrors , lots and lots of cleaning, I added rear cab speakers (this is the base, stripper model truck) using all factory parts including the harness and screws etc. ~ I spent some time unwrapping the harness and re jiggering it so it fit as original and looked original, I had to take the interior 1/2 way out, lucky for my broken down old butt the seats are split else I'da never been able to remove them without damaging the paint on the door sills...

Wow, lots of creature comforts. Someone down the line will be puzzled why the base model has a plethora of factory upgrades.

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Of course a premium DC player out of a high end model...

Factory so it fits, works / plays well and thieves won't want to steal it, no one wants stock sound systems no matter how good they sound .

I hope that is the case. As I understand, it isn't the head unit that determines the sound, it's the speakers, which can be hidden behind stock grills.

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(try a nice original Becker in your Mercedes, with new speakers they're fantastic unlike VW's low co$t Blaupunkt units .)

The high end Blaupunkt head unit was stolen out of the 280TE, have the paperwork. The factory apparently set it up for a radio and then the sound system installed at a shop. It has an amplifier and additional speakers. I actually found four replacement speakers in Germany along with a 1985 radio with CD player thinking I was keeping the 280TE for a long time. Still think will go ahead, everything else is so original and the sound system is so rare.

Why are Becker radios better?

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N.O.S. headlights, I tried polishing the originals but they were still not optically pure so I hunted up the correct Ford P/N and then searched until I found some N.O.S. ones instead of the crappy cheapo Chinese ones, then while I had the front fascia apart I hunted up a N.O.S. chrome grille (this base model had a molded in beige color and looked like it had leprosy), always some little thing to clean adjust or make better .

Wow, who knew could get NOS headlights. New headlights make it safer and looks better, the first thing I did to the Jetta (and were an upgraded headlight). And yes, those beige grills were not the most pleasing aesthetics.

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I thought I'd cover all this before, sorry .

No problem. You woudn't have to if your thread hadn't disappeared.

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I had a time getting the old steering wheel off, in the end I had to use heat .

Didn't that damage the plastic? Why changing the steering wheel?

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I *think* I finally found a source for the factory typ of vinyl (? non cloth) seat covers and will have to see if I still remember how to change those, they're not slip covers, they're original typ that should last another twenty years and 120,000 miles ....

I don't remember this material, isn't vinyl burn in the Summer? Wouldn't cloth be better? Just curious.

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Typical DIY hobbyist typ things, knowhutimean ?

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I don't think any project is typical, so I don't know what you mean.

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Germans tend to have screws, nuts, bolts , clips and so on where after you get deeper in other have rivets or swaged parts that are not supposed to be taken apart .

Interesting the Germans allow taking it completely apart where others don't.

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I dunno if she's so happy with me, I've had some seriously awful women in my life, so when I found this one I try hard to keep her happy...

I would hope you know she is happy. At least the women I grew up with made it apparent when they were not happy. Not in a negative way, of course.

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Someone simpatico is better than good sex, there's always horny women around, as you get old there are way more women than men to choose from.

Well, I am the kind I rather have just one woman, life is easier that way.

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I tell my foster boys : is you're unhappy with your G.F. relax ~ they're like city buses : another will be along shortly and maybe much cleaner...

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Unless you are Autistic and haven't a clue where the bus stop is or have money for the trip.

vwnate1 · #54 12-24-2020, 08:14 PM

As I said : finding the correct part number for what you want it the first step in finding N.O.S. parts ~ there are thousands of places that buy up 'distress' stock and then try to find someone who'll buy it....

I replaced the steering wheel because at only 117,000 miles the surface of the top 1/3 where your hands spend 90 + % of the time, was worn smooth and I simply didn't like it .

This is just one more of the typical DIY Hobbyist things I was talking about .

The center is a large bit of bare pot metal, that's the only part I heated, the propane plumber's torch has a 1" flame if not smaller ~ it's designed to sweat solder copper pipes .

I agree, some one will perhaps wonder why a base model truck with rubber mats and vinyl seats has the nice CD player and up graded speakers, why not ? . I actually have the top of the line 6 disc CD player but it choked on a disc and when I researched how to take it apart and clean/fix it, I said 'maybe not, I have other things to do'.

The front end picture came out well, too bad I'm banned from attachments .

Becker radios have better sound and better frequency modulation....

Vinyl seats because it's a WORK TRUCK and it will get dirty ~ I hate dirty old cloth seats .

These have perforations in the back rest so shouldn't be bad in Summer, I've been driving it since December last when I bought it and they're fine by me .

My Sweet seems happy, who the hell knows ? .

She's a sassy one and will have no problem booting me to the curb when she isn't .

I too find it easier to have one at a time, wasn't always that way but it's quieter and I don't really need another woman .

Adriel · #55 12-25-2020, 12:33 PM

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As I said : finding the correct part number for what you want it the first step in finding N.O.S. parts ~ there are thousands of places that buy up 'distress' stock and then try to find someone who'll buy it....

TheSamba has the parts books or online vendors. Apparently what I am missing is knowing where to find these deals, these "thousands of places".

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I replaced the steering wheel because at only 117,000 miles the surface of the top 1/3 where your hands spend 90 + % of the time, was worn smooth and I simply didn't like it .

This is just one more of the typical DIY Hobbyist things I was talking about .

Ah, now I understand.

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The center is a large bit of bare pot metal, that's the only part I heated, the propane plumber's torch has a 1" flame if not smaller ~ it's designed to sweat solder copper pipes .

I have sweat plenty of pipe, however, I modified my torch to have a rose bud flame as this house's solder for some reason is a pain to soften.

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I agree, some one will perhaps wonder why a base model truck with rubber mats and vinyl seats has the nice CD player and up graded speakers, why not ? . I actually have the top of the line 6 disc CD player but it choked on a disc and when I researched how to take it apart and clean/fix it, I said 'maybe not, I have other things to do'.

Those kind of projects are good time fillers. I myself be curious how the CD even got stuck.

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Becker radios have better sound and better frequency modulation....

What about those from the 1960s?

The Becker radios for either Volkswagen sure cost a lot, get what you pay for, hopefully.

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Vinyl seats because it's a WORK TRUCK and it will get dirty ~ I hate dirty old cloth seats .

These have perforations in the back rest so shouldn't be bad in Summer, I've been driving it since December last when I bought it and they're fine by me .

I didn't know this is a work truck, then I understand. Perforations do help, plus the color. That Mercury that was forced to buy had black leather, fantastic in desert Summer.

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My Sweet seems happy, who the hell knows ? .

She's a sassy one and will have no problem booting me to the curb when she isn't .

Well seems you answered your own question.

vwnate1 · #56 12-25-2020, 06:52 PM

Google is your friend here .

Yes, I know that you'll get hundreds if not thousands of results, either you want to find the deals or you don't .

Little in life comes without effort .

I'm retired now so I like to have a shinier shop truck than before, I'll try reducing the size of my images, if I can manage that I'll post some .

Adriel · #57 12-25-2020, 07:42 PM

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Google is your friend here .

Yes, I know that you'll get hundreds if not thousands of results, either you want to find the deals or you don't .

Actually as I said, I can and have hunted up deals. I am always keeping my eyes open for sources.

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Little in life comes without effort .

There is diminishing return the less the part costs, say a few dollars and one spends ten hours to save a dollar, was that a good use of time? Time could be reduced with a few known sources, like eBay or here which of course I have done.

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I'm retired now so I like to have a shinier shop truck than before, I'll try reducing the size of my images, if I can manage that I'll post some .

Hopefully works, if not, my offer of help still stands.

vwnate1 · #58 12-25-2020, 08:01 PM

Actually, you said : "Apparently what I am missing is knowing where to find these deals, these "thousands of places"." .

I'd forgotten you offered to help with reducing the images , THANK YOU .

Beckers are simply better quality radios than are Blaupunkt .

The deal with the insane VW prices is ignorant kids screwing the vintage VW scene up beyond all reason .

When I saw a # 241 DeLuxe Typ II go for $200,000.00 a few years ago I knew things would never be right again .

For many years your local yard & tag sales were full of good used VW radios, mostly 6 volt Bendix 'Sapphire' ones, unless you tried to make it work on 12 volts or hit it with a hammer, they all still worked perfectly and simply needed a few hours of cleaning and polishing the plastic lens .

If ever I get to cleaning out my junk piles I'm sure I have a couple plus some 1968 > 12 volt units, because I'd build daily drivers for my wife and I I saved those from the trash too, many junkyards well into the 1990's cheerfully sold me those "worthless, only YOU ever want them Nate" radios for $10 or so .

I have a couple that are AM/FM and stereo .

Your '63 takes a Sapphire I or !! (AM/FM) with ivory knobs and push buttons, the ones with gray knobs are for 1965 and 1966 .

Adriel · #59 12-25-2020, 08:21 PM

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I'd forgotten you offered to help with reducing the images , THANK YOU .

Glad to help.

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The deal with the insane VW prices is ignorant kids screwing the vintage VW scene up beyond all reason .

When I saw a # 241 DeLuxe Typ II go for $200,000.00 a few years ago I knew things would never be right again .

Ah, that again.

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For many years your local yard & tag sales were full of good used VW radios, mostly 6 volt Bendix 'Sapphire' ones, unless you tried to make it work on 12 volts or hit it with a hammer, they all still worked perfectly and simply needed a few hours of cleaning and polishing the plastic lens .

I was on the tail end of that, now there are none in yards, which I guess better more are saved.

Good to know the Bendex are durable.

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If ever I get to cleaning out my junk piles I'm sure I have a couple plus some 1968 > 12 volt units, because I'd build daily drivers for my wife and I I saved those from the trash too, many junkyards well into the 1990's cheerfully sold me those "worthless, only YOU ever want them Nate" radios for $10 or so .

I have a couple that are AM/FM and stereo .

Wow, I will keep that in mind as did want to put a radio into the Squareback (did have a 1980s Alpine however there was some reason it didn't work).

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Your '63 takes a Sapphire I or !! (AM/FM) with ivory knobs and push buttons, the ones with gray knobs are for 1965 and 1966 .

Actually Ruby is a 1964. Years ago I found a radio as a Christmas gift for Dad, Brother pitched in funds, as he said he quit driving her because it didn't have a radio. Apparently back then didn't know anything, as now I see the dash knobs are grey and the radio is ivory. Oh gosh, now what?

Oh and it is a Benix, how do they compare to Becker?

vwnate1 · #60 12-25-2020, 08:31 PM

Bendix was first and foremost an engineering company, I've yet to find a bad product of theirs .

Motorola too made affordable and hard to kill radios for the OEM's into the 1990's .

DELCO back in the day made sturdy radios that worked well and got signals in to boonies where other brands didn't .

I've forgotten who made the millions of auto radios SEARS sold in the 1960's & 1970's, they were absolute crap .

I've seen new reproduction radio knobs in ivory, gray and black for the standards and Typ II's .

They're out there, doesn't Phoenix have a Bug-O-Rama annually ? .

There used to be a big VW junkyard on the South side of Phoenix, the young man who ran it 20 years ago was really nice and I was able to find several 1968 only Typ II parts and he didn't say "! that's RARE !" even once...

Parts and junked older VW's are still out there, you have to enjoy the hunting aspect, I do, many don't .

After I got burned on The SAMBA I discovered there's a feed back page and of course, the @$$hat who clipped me, had done so to many others before and was unrepentant as most thieves and crooks are .