Griff Help obscure dash parts
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Hello all.
I'm in the process of rebuilding a Griffith dash and am missing a few of the glued on small brackets which hold the instruments in the dash facia itself.
I've recovered about six of them from behind the facia where they have laid no doubt for some time. Rather annoyingly it seems I'm missing at least another four which are nowhere to be found.
I've contacted the usual TVR breakers and non have any. Not even a scrap dash panel I could purchase and remove them from. Rather disappointing then.
Please does anyone have several I could purchase? I just don't have the time to spend making them. Even as simple as they may look at first sight I fear they're a little more tricky to get just right so as the instruments sit nice and flush. I'd rather be driving than bending and filing!
I'm in the process of rebuilding a Griffith dash and am missing a few of the glued on small brackets which hold the instruments in the dash facia itself.
I've recovered about six of them from behind the facia where they have laid no doubt for some time. Rather annoyingly it seems I'm missing at least another four which are nowhere to be found.
I've contacted the usual TVR breakers and non have any. Not even a scrap dash panel I could purchase and remove them from. Rather disappointing then.
Please does anyone have several I could purchase? I just don't have the time to spend making them. Even as simple as they may look at first sight I fear they're a little more tricky to get just right so as the instruments sit nice and flush. I'd rather be driving than bending and filing!
Help please.
I'm still searching for these instrument mounting brackets. Surely someone has replaced an entire dash and has the remnants of an old steel dash back laying around somewhere with some redundant brackets still glued to it. Ok I know it's a long shot but I only need half a dozen or so.
Anyone?
I'm still searching for these instrument mounting brackets. Surely someone has replaced an entire dash and has the remnants of an old steel dash back laying around somewhere with some redundant brackets still glued to it. Ok I know it's a long shot but I only need half a dozen or so.
Anyone?
500dread said:
Help please.
I'm still searching for these instrument mounting brackets. Surely someone has replaced an entire dash and has the remnants of an old steel dash back laying around somewhere with some redundant brackets still glued to it. Ok I know it's a long shot but I only need half a dozen or so.
Anyone?
do you mean the bits that hold the buttons/lights in? I'm still searching for these instrument mounting brackets. Surely someone has replaced an entire dash and has the remnants of an old steel dash back laying around somewhere with some redundant brackets still glued to it. Ok I know it's a long shot but I only need half a dozen or so.
Anyone?
All my instruments are held in with clamps pulling the instrument in from the front...no brackets as such.
Mine's a '95 500 serp if that makes any difference...
The instruments on mine are all flush mounted so the rim of the instruments does not prevent from them falling through their respective holes in the dash.
Instead there are three and often four double opposite right angle brackets, like a squared off Z shape, glued to the rear of the dash panel for each instrument to be positioned with and tightened down. It's a crude affair to be honest as it appears TVR also used a soldered together circle of 1mm electrical cable looped around each instrument to take up any slack. I will be looking to better this example of great British engineering. Gotta love their simplicity and budget saving though.
Instead there are three and often four double opposite right angle brackets, like a squared off Z shape, glued to the rear of the dash panel for each instrument to be positioned with and tightened down. It's a crude affair to be honest as it appears TVR also used a soldered together circle of 1mm electrical cable looped around each instrument to take up any slack. I will be looking to better this example of great British engineering. Gotta love their simplicity and budget saving though.
500dread said:
The instruments on mine are all flush mounted so the rim of the instruments does not prevent from them falling through their respective holes in the dash.
Instead there are three and often four double opposite right angle brackets, like a squared off Z shape, glued to the rear of the dash panel for each instrument to be positioned with and tightened down. It's a crude affair to be honest as it appears TVR also used a soldered together circle of 1mm electrical cable looped around each instrument to take up any slack. I will be looking to better this example of great British engineering. Gotta love their simplicity and budget saving though.
Ah!Instead there are three and often four double opposite right angle brackets, like a squared off Z shape, glued to the rear of the dash panel for each instrument to be positioned with and tightened down. It's a crude affair to be honest as it appears TVR also used a soldered together circle of 1mm electrical cable looped around each instrument to take up any slack. I will be looking to better this example of great British engineering. Gotta love their simplicity and budget saving though.
You've got to wonder though how long a saving stays a saving with the factory having to faff around having to line things up...make them accurate in the first place and you can just bung them in!
I imagine that's why they dispensed of the flush fit idea in the end. It's so much more hassle than just sitting the instruments into the dash allowing the rim to locate them on the facia rather than on to three or four glued on tiny brackets I'm struggling to find several of. But then I like the look of the flush fit so it will be worth my hassle to repair when restored to fresh walnut. Very soon I hope.
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