In the VW online community, numerous requests for dimensions of the wood interior panels get posted. Folks are not necessarily trying to replace their worn out, abused, water damaged, or absent panels with the original baltic birch plywood; luan and bamboo are popular choices too. Whether one goes with original or not, making panels completely from scratch is a tough job. For my project, I was luckily enough to have a complete, original set in good enough condition to serve as a pattern for replacements, but so many buses out there, it seems, are not so lucky.
I try to help when I can and have drawn and shipped several sets of paper templates made by taping sheets of butcher paper together and tracing Moby’s old panels. This is a task that requires a fair amount of time, taping, drawing, and shipping. Shipping costs are not too bad, the high was about $15 for tube and shipping across the U.S. After completing a template set a few months ago, a discussion popped up in a thread about the possibility of scanning templates so they could be emailed or downloaded. Unfortunately, nobody had suggestions as to a source for a large scanner or how to Continue reading
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