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Hi Mark,
There are different types of Powder Coating, and there are ones that don’t use very high heat levels – indeed I’ve seen them demonstrated with a powder coated Coke bottle, and those bottles use quite a low melt temperature plastic.
It will need some testing (trial and error) but I’m hopeful. I’ll let you know 🙂
Laurence
Hi Mark
Something I’ve considered is to have these items powder coated, as you can get chrome powder coating powder. You can mask items off and only powder coat sections – so might be possible with care to have chrome front face on black badges
I’m hoping to buy myself what’s required, for doing small items like the badges, sometime over the next month or so and give it a try myself, I’ll let you know.
Hi Trevor,
If it means you can be comfortable driving your Cabriolet the distances you do, then it will be a great success.
Enjoy your tour around Ireland
Laurence
Hi John,
I’ve not come across any red hoods being on offer for the XJS convertible, so I’ve taken a look at the Paul Skilleter book you mention
That photo shows to me what looks like the Tan roof, not red. The an almost exact example belongs to a Hess & Eisenhardt version of the XJS Convertible – it appears in their advertising literature (all be it from a different angle with a glider behind it).
I think I have seen other examples with the Tan hood, but not Red.Laurence
Regarding the Dashboard lights, I’ve just posted and article in our site’s Articles section, about how I improved them on my car.
The article section can be found in the right-hand menu on this site’s Home page
Laurence
That’s good news Martin – electrical shorts are a nightmare to find at the best of times, let alone up within the dash.
Laurence
Your cabriolet looks very nice. I like the yellow/gold coach lines – mine’s the same Signal Red as yours but I’ve Silver coach lines
Laurence
P.S. I’ve a Discovery 4 tooOuch that’s a lot of money, circa £1,400
Hi Jon,
On a nice steady run, in my experience, you’d ikely get 25mpg (if it were a V12 5.3l then you’d be getting around 17mpg).
One thing to be cognisant of interpretation of reading the fuel gauge in your can and how much fuel is in the tank when it reads 1/4 full. Until you’re sure of what you see then don’t trust that 1/4 on the gauge is actually a 1/4 of the tank of fuel – fill up early and carry spare fuel (though you really don’t want to run out as it will suck up crud from the bottom of the tank that you really don’t want distributing throughout the fuel system).
Better safe than sorry on your long trip to Isle of Mann to fill up regularly and then when on home turf to let the fuel levels lower and estabilish for yourself when exactly on the gauge the light comes on and how much there is in the tank at that point).
Hope that helps – have a safe and uneventful, though enjoyable journey
Laurence
Hi John,
If you recall the 1st joined date was only introduced about a month after the site went live, so not all the members details had that field populated. I’ve just spent a happy couple of hours going through the member’s data and have back-populated that field. Therefore whenever the sort is undertaken for any of the fields on the page no members disappear now from the displayed view.
The list count now shows 126 (I’ve removed my test account from the list), that’s 125 Cabriolet Members and 1 administrator (Robin) which can’t be removed.
Cheers,
Laurence
Hi John,
The functionality you’re seeking is already in place. If I could just remind you, if you click on the column header 1st it will sort the whole member list with the newest members at the top by their date of joining.
Laurence
Bob and Gerben,
Glad it’s all worked out well.
Mark,
Is the unsatisfactory bulb the dipped beam or full beam – Gerben might not want the dipped beam bulbs he has just got from Bob, as his Cabriolet is LHD.
Laurence