Elin you are fantastic with all your skills and experience. Like to watch your programmes even if I dont owe any Triumph cars but a number of Triumph mc for road and racing. My summer car is a BMW Z3 -99 2,8 british traditional 100% original only driven during summer! Take care Richard👌❤️🇸🇪
Elin, don't worry about boring anyone. We are grateful for every word, thought and secret you share with us. That is such a beautiful TR3A! BTW, I remember having the best results with wrinkle paint by placing the part in the oven at 250 or 300 °F for half an hour. Of course, you house will smell like a chemical factory for a while....I guess you could put it in a cardboard box and hit it with the heat gun on high, moving over the piece until it is even. Good luck.
Elin, I have always had good luck crimping bullets but I have the correct tool as you have. The secret for others reading this is to understand that the wire/bullet combination is key. The bullet is sized by the wire strand count which determines the diameter of the conductor. The wire needs to almost completely fill the bullet because the crimp tool only reduces the crimp about 15%. A small conductor in a bullet with a larger wire diameter hole will not crimp at all. If you are using American size wire such as 16 or 14 gauge, the strand could does not apply, you need to test crimp to arrive at the correct bullet size. I never had a problem after I understood this and used the proper tool.
As aotahaers have said gthe detail are good for us who may have less electrical knowledge than you...and that is definately me. Many thanks looking forward to the final.
I just refinished my 67 MGB steel dash in wrinkle paint. Ended up doing it twice to get it right. Stripped to bare metal, etch primed and let the primer dry over night. Then 3 heavy coats of wrinkle paint sprayed 5 minutes apart. 5 minutes after the last coat I used the heat gun. It came out like a factory finish!
Yes I was thinking that etch primer was a useful stage that was missed… there’s definitely an art to this process and every layer of different paint plays its role. The wrinkle / crackle paint seems to be some sort of plasticky hybrid that needs to dry and set in a certain way. The varying results Elin got at first are probably down to how the heat moves differently around the different areas of the panel due tonedges, cutouts, etc.
Yep ... Wiring makes boring videos but it had a few interesting areas. I have never been happy with wrinkle finish paints. I had better luck than you with a nicer even wrinkle without heat but even after a year the finish wasn't tough and scraped off everywhere especially around the key switch. Instead I ended up applying vinyl of a different colour which made it a feature panel.
Fantastic video Elin! I hadn’t appreciated how much work painting the dash would be. I noticed that the can of wrinkle paint I supplied (from Moss) is different from one I got from them some time ago. When I painted the dash before it was straightforward and issue free. Perhaps Moss has changed suppliers and the new paint is more finicky.
Good point. I thought it would be best to do exactly that. However, the LED bulbs aren’t dimmable (unless one adds PWM circuitry); they’re either on or off. I think I’m going to order a set of new incandescent bulbs for the dash and replace the LEDs with the “old style” bulbs. It’s not anything that needs doing right away. It turns out my panel dimmer switch isn’t working. Since the switch is not available anymore I’m going to have to see if I can fix it. Otherwise my choices are to always have the dash illuminated or never have the dash illuminated.
@@stephengent9974 I tried, you will see in the next episode but for color matching purposes I decided to go back to incandescent. Well that didn’t work either so Dave is gonna work on that at a later time.
Elin you are fantastic with all your skills and experience. Like to watch your programmes even if I dont owe any Triumph cars but a number of Triumph mc for road and racing.
My summer car is a BMW Z3 -99 2,8 british traditional 100% original only driven during summer!
Take care Richard👌❤️🇸🇪
Elin, don't worry about boring anyone. We are grateful for every word, thought and secret you share with us. That is such a beautiful TR3A! BTW, I remember having the best results with wrinkle paint by placing the part in the oven at 250 or 300 °F for half an hour. Of course, you house will smell like a chemical factory for a while....I guess you could put it in a cardboard box and hit it with the heat gun on high, moving over the piece until it is even. Good luck.
Elin, I have always had good luck crimping bullets but I have the correct tool as you have. The secret for others reading this is to understand that the wire/bullet combination is key. The bullet is sized by the wire strand count which determines the diameter of the conductor. The wire needs to almost completely fill the bullet because the crimp tool only reduces the crimp about 15%. A small conductor in a bullet with a larger wire diameter hole will not crimp at all. If you are using American size wire such as 16 or 14 gauge, the strand could does not apply, you need to test crimp to arrive at the correct bullet size. I never had a problem after I understood this and used the proper tool.
Elin, I always appreciate the details. Just having your insight on how you run the wiring is invaluable!
Thanks Elin you explain yourself really well and always enjoy your videos.
Looking forward to the final video on this rewire. And yes, the detail is really helpful.
Elin, the detail is very helpful, the repetition helps strengthen the learning process so don't give up on us.
More detail is better.😊. I learn a great deal from your explanations and truly appreciate the great content!
Detail is good!
As aotahaers have said gthe detail are good for us who may have less electrical knowledge than you...and that is definately me. Many thanks looking forward to the final.
I just refinished my 67 MGB steel dash in wrinkle paint. Ended up doing it twice to get it right. Stripped to bare metal, etch primed and let the primer dry over night. Then 3 heavy coats of wrinkle paint sprayed 5 minutes apart. 5 minutes after the last coat I used the heat gun. It came out like a factory finish!
Yes I was thinking that etch primer was a useful stage that was missed… there’s definitely an art to this process and every layer of different paint plays its role. The wrinkle / crackle paint seems to be some sort of plasticky hybrid that needs to dry and set in a certain way.
The varying results Elin got at first are probably down to how the heat moves differently around the different areas of the panel due tonedges, cutouts, etc.
Advanced Wire needs to hire you to do installation seminars at car events!
I told you that wrinkle paint would be fun 😉
Yep ... Wiring makes boring videos but it had a few interesting areas. I have never been happy with wrinkle finish paints. I had better luck than you with a nicer even wrinkle without heat but even after a year the finish wasn't tough and scraped off everywhere especially around the key switch. Instead I ended up applying vinyl of a different colour which made it a feature panel.
Fantastic video Elin!
I hadn’t appreciated how much work painting the dash would be. I noticed that the can of wrinkle paint I supplied (from Moss) is different from one I got from them some time ago. When I painted the dash before it was straightforward and issue free. Perhaps Moss has changed suppliers and the new paint is more finicky.
I also like the proper loom tape. It’s pretty similar to (may even be the same as?) hockey tape, that’s probably available in Canada eh? :D
Seems to be a mix of incandescent and LED illumination bulbs. Would it not be better to convert to all LED?
Good point. I thought it would be best to do exactly that. However, the LED bulbs aren’t dimmable (unless one adds PWM circuitry); they’re either on or off. I think I’m going to order a set of new incandescent bulbs for the dash and replace the LEDs with the “old style” bulbs.
It’s not anything that needs doing right away. It turns out my panel dimmer switch isn’t working. Since the switch is not available anymore I’m going to have to see if I can fix it. Otherwise my choices are to always have the dash illuminated or never have the dash illuminated.
@@stephengent9974 I tried, you will see in the next episode but for color matching purposes I decided to go back to incandescent. Well that didn’t work either so Dave is gonna work on that at a later time.
Presumably the circuit is converted to -ve earth?
@@stefanomastropietro9040 yes, that goes without saying. Negative earth and alternator conversion are requirements for the AAW harness to work.
Oven , to get an even wrinkle
@@flyingarts6765 That would be the last time I go into my own house 😂 I will be kicked out and live in the garage :)
you have to be sneaky,
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First!
Elin the reason the wrinkle / crackle paint didn’t go “smoothly” (😊) was because you didn’t say “Let’s get crackle painting !”….
@@johnmoruzzi7236 😂
Or “Crackle laquering” ?
like 126 !