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#1 roofless

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Posted 21 January 2010 - 06:47 PM

Is your heater switch panel looking a bit lived in? scratched, bit bent ? scruffy ?

well now you add peel off that old nasty cover plate and fit a new one - you've never been able to do this before as the replacements are rigid and wont go over the bonded knob on the sliding lever.


very scruffy and bent old cover plate.
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pull the nasty old one off
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clean up the back section - even give it a lick of paint if you feel like it
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pop on your new 'flexible' finisher
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peel off just the first bit of backing paper
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align it best you can and stick down the first 10mm or so
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peel the rest of the backing papaer away - it'll rip as it goes past the sliding lever
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and why not add a splash of colour whilst you're at it ?? :-
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available now - just £3.00 incl postage
laminated with flooring grade clear laminate - guaranteed not to scratch !!

single speed and twin speed available :errr:

Edited by roofless, 21 January 2010 - 06:48 PM.


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Posted 21 January 2010 - 06:57 PM

ol have 1 mate, england plz. take it to bingley with my gb centres plz.

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Posted 21 January 2010 - 06:58 PM

ol have 1 mate, england plz. take it to bingley with my gb centres plz.


sorted :-

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Posted 21 January 2010 - 07:06 PM

will you ave a trade stand or anything at bingley? i might pop over and see how youre doing.

i might have one with my design on again at some point. gotta have money first tho.

did you get the grille sticker i sent you?

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Posted 21 January 2010 - 07:19 PM

will you ave a trade stand or anything at bingley? i might pop over and see how youre doing.

i might have one with my design on again at some point. gotta have money first tho.

did you get the grille sticker i sent you?


sure did - I'll bring it to Bingley if you like :- If not a trade stand I'll definately be there with some form of set up

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Posted 21 January 2010 - 07:26 PM

Hmmmm, looks good!

Could I have an ai file to do my own design?

I'll be at Bingley too... :-

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Posted 21 January 2010 - 07:31 PM

will you ave a trade stand or anything at bingley? i might pop over and see how youre doing.

i might have one with my design on again at some point. gotta have money first tho.

did you get the grille sticker i sent you?


sure did - I'll bring it to Bingley if you like :- If not a trade stand I'll definately be there with some form of set up


i should have the money to pay for the panda one by then. could you make me a mockup of the heater one with the same design. probably best without the enjoi wrote on tho.

and ill bring you £7 is it?

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Posted 21 January 2010 - 07:33 PM

no £7.50??

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Posted 21 January 2010 - 08:40 PM

I like that,a good finishing touch.My only criticism would be the edges on the old plate are rounded off and yours are cut sharp.It makes it look like an add on IMO. Good job

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Posted 22 January 2010 - 09:42 AM

I like that,a good finishing touch.My only criticism would be the edges on the old plate are rounded off and yours are cut sharp.It makes it look like an add on IMO. Good job


fair point - I think the next step for these is to have the clear resin applied - make them look a bit more up market, in this application they would have to have rounded corners, also on the sliding lever slot,

I'll try a couple this afternoon and see how it looks. :teehee:

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Posted 22 January 2010 - 10:09 AM

They look good. Do you have them for the twin speed heater too?

My only criticism would be that they don't look very black, or is this just a trick of the photography?

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Posted 22 January 2010 - 10:47 AM

They look good. Do you have them for the twin speed heater too?

My only criticism would be that they don't look very black, or is this just a trick of the photography?


yes - twin speed is available too - I think its maybe bad camera / poor light - they're pretty black. I think if I do them with the resin they'll look better, darker and neater.

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Posted 22 January 2010 - 10:53 AM

Martin any chance you could do one with a beige (as in the picture i sent you) background with black symbols ? :teehee:

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Posted 22 January 2010 - 11:07 AM

nice work Roofless. I'll get one once i've actually made the heater work!!

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Posted 22 January 2010 - 01:45 PM

Martin any chance you could do one with a beige (as in the picture i sent you) background with black symbols ? :teehee:


done :genius:




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