no risk of a fan blowing rubbish at your lovely paint too

Thats as good as an excuse for me not to spend money, if he doesnt want to sell it, it will make it hard work to get it for a fiver

I visited an old VW dealership in the middle of Wales this week, they had a diagnostic machine at the back of the workshop. The chap there said it hadn't been used for 30 years, and looking at the layer of dust on it he was probably right. Do you happen to have a contact number? Would they be willi...

You are right, those paint fumes wouldn't take much ignition once they are nicely atomised!

This is the sort of thing ive used, it has a pan function so it sweeps back and forth across a panel for uniformish heating.

https://www.poundstretcher.co.uk/halogen-heater

Infra red panel heater! Theyre £10-20 on amazon/ebay or try poundstretcher if you have that over there?

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Good attention to detail Broady.

Did anybody ever actively use the diagnostic socket

Pointless attention to detail is what got me where I am today!

I hope someone did, I expect VW did at a few product launches at the very least

Glad to see youre back at it! Whats the next part your going to tackle?

Mine does have a shine, but not a very good one yet.

One that particularly interests me is how they monitored compression, I assume that was something to do with the FI set up Yeah, that was quite interesting, though I don't see why it should only be used for FI engines. Can a man of your abilities do the maths / alogorithm to convert battery voltage...

Are you planning on making your own diagnostic computer :) A couple of guys are using arduino to create GPS based trip computers for the T25's I dont really know what im planning, I just wanted one for the novelty. Could have been an easy jumpstart point if ever required. I think I've only ever see...

Racing through it now!

If they are looms from the car, that's the socket. The plug is on the computer which got plugged into the car

Im not desperate for one, Just curious, does anyone have the diagnostic plug for one of these? I assume its the same thing across all the VW's of the period?

(started as a wanted ad and got more interesting so mirrored to the workshop)

Shall we have a change of pace then, I know I need one. I dragged the rats nest out of the loft. https://c0migw.am.files.1drv.com/y4mZHD2HEUAHyUaWF_p5M7TVndyaoV7oaudqY9p_NBj5n2Beu7FX-PiQGMdigxp-QNq8brPHd7zBiN9g5DojHi6uByJvVyvBvu-ryII44OECylGoSeC49Xl_yFlVu5f6N70McAISEHL6n5Fg3r-XrnHRYtTFs6D9ndNhByk2MZ...

It seems to be the lack of oven, the panels are baking nicely with the IR heater now, Im not too frustrated, its nice to move back to more mechanical jobs and theres nothing to stop me colour sanding it when it warms up next year. My local powder coaters just got a nice new oven which I might see if...

Well as good as that rear panel looks, the rest of it is causing some bother. Still being left with scratches and swirl marks in enough places to upset me. I flatted the boot lid right back once again. I expect its my last chance before I get through to primer! https://d0lqnw.am.files.1drv.com/y4mQp...

Great news, sounds like a fairly small project, ready for next year then :D I wouldn't bother with flickr unless you are prepared to pay. Samsung have recently bought them and as from January next year there will be a hosting fee once you have more than 1000 photos on there. I suppose it will depend...

So its your first fastback rather than the first 68 fastback off the production line?

Whats the long term plan? do you have any photos? Are you modifying anything, what colour is it/are you going for?

Nothing really to report, ive understood a lot more about the paint and have got this finish now. Nothing much to report eh :) Are you going to share the knowledge on the paint as the finish looks good to me :thumbsup: After some research ive discovered that not all abrasive paper grades are the sa...

Nothing really to report, ive understood a lot more about the paint and have got this finish now. https://0b7ipq.am.files.1drv.com/y4m482EnbSiVQnuM5Ze8wRSpimgkfiNjZtZgASpFierXQVQRaKQAg9I056ohwN6MPqGhDBeJEcp5-6-zkNBntL70pcK57api3yAmJZYbQBck5Eg7gIS8hBZFrqpbKLZcb_Lkuk6LwdezwQjUSOaVi5zIgN893R6mM2o0jpo7i...

That floor is fantastic, looks as good as OEM stuff, if the car wasn't so obviously a custom job that would look like its just rolled off the production line

Great to hear another ones being brought back to life, welcome to the forum! Fastbacks are the best type 3 of all, is it the first 68 fastback or your first one?

I mean I spend a bit of time visiting forums searching for useful reference photos and save them to my PC before the hosting site knocks them off line. Then if anyone asks about that topic in future i post the photo up.

Oh joy, but at least we now know and have time to start grabbing photos which are useful

I nicked quite a few when photof*@kit came back

Best of luck, hope they get you sorted!

Does this help? https://www.autosparks.co.uk/finder https://hteueg.am.files.1drv.com/y4mtx0DLiVtK4H0gTHBEUySkFt_0N4xlo-W1-sq3_erbBxITV_DIqstLgLOQtDKA-25xRkqy48lJqupFFdHXjZsYYik98p28WaLqUhTHZrOppO-23tb-3mnvZ7IvfspQ4ZzZf_HUVWsEj-f-nZAHMkevhKTTBWZ9PqlnjJdl5EAXuO80FmOWNTXjmF-O2bLB0JAJf0qftYyH2ey9DGlPxuk...