Restoring a slat speedo...dial up warning..lots of pics.

1941 - 1945, MB, GPW Technical questions and discussions, regarding anything related to the WWII jeep.
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Post by Jammie A. Romee » Thu Sep 21, 2006 3:39 pm

Jon & Sean,
Both you guys rule ! And both of you are a wonderful source of information for Gee folk. Keep up to good work and THANK YOU !
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Post by sergio » Fri Sep 22, 2006 3:36 am

Sean, on the East Coast here there is a clothier named Sy Syms. His does commercials where he says, "An educated consumer is our best customer."

If you had one this excellent series on what type of intricate work and know how is involved in speedo resto, I can't imagine anyone would complain about how long it took and you could probably have doubled your prices.

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Post by Glenn Shorney » Fri Sep 22, 2006 4:49 pm

Sean -- Thank you for sharing the 'how to' with us!! It's amazing what all all the different Gee-men have superior skills at doing. What does the tool look like that you use to de-crimp the bezel?? I can see me totally destroying a bezel!!! Keep up the work and information. Thanks again, Sean. Glenn

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Post by ken clay » Sun Sep 24, 2006 1:44 pm

:D MANY THANX ...... :D 8) Im able now to look at that box of broken speedos and .......................whish you still did the repairs .. :cry:

are you still working on the repro Slat bits ( you put on an erlier post on the slat forum) or has that also been stopped :?:

thanx ken

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Post by Jeff H » Sun Sep 24, 2006 5:51 pm

You can purchase a very nice reprint of TM9-1929A for details from Portrayal Press.

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Post by Sean » Mon Sep 25, 2006 8:06 am

Ken Clay wrote:wish you still did the repairs
Still am, just scaled it down. Send me an Email.
pfarber wrote:This is a nice pitorial but LIGHT on what goes on.

Thanks for the insight, bummed out about no details.
Was never meant to be a "How To" only an insight into what is involved in restoring one.
Sergio wrote:I can't imagine anyone would complain about how long it took and you could probably have doubled your prices.
:shock: Never thought of that. I could double my prices, quit work and have a one month turn around. 8)
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Post by sergio » Mon Sep 25, 2006 1:16 pm

Sean wrote::shock: Never thought of that. I could double my prices, quit work and have a one month turn around. 8)
Let me tell you what all the Harvard MBAs pay a lot of money to learn:

Buy low, sell high, do it as often as you can.

When you have a backlog of work, raise your prices until you have work for today only. You can't make nickel one off tomorrow's job.

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Post by David V » Tue Sep 26, 2006 1:03 am

It looks scary - all those little parts. I have to rebuild my original Motometer sometime - the trip turns slower than the odo.

But as I just rebuilt my gearbox and was worried about that but finally it went OK, these posts just might persuade me that it can be done without to much trouble.

Great work.

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Post by john barton » Mon Nov 13, 2006 6:11 pm

Received slat grill speedo that Sean has restored for my slat grill
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absolutely excellent!
gonna work harder so I can put it in...
Sean is a great guy...does the best work!!!

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Post by Adam » Thu Nov 30, 2006 6:07 pm

Sean,

Is your website showing all the different speedos and gauges still online and available for general viewing?

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Post by iowa » Tue Jan 02, 2007 6:38 am

I finally got around to really reviewing this post.
it is truely amazing sean.
i just may try it some day!!
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Post by Rml1708 » Sat Jan 20, 2007 4:01 pm

It there any way someone can repost the photos someplace so they show up in the original posting?

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Post by ilovejeeps » Sun Jan 21, 2007 4:18 am

thie pics on the original post will not come up for me.

What should I do different? Every other post with pics work OK
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Post by a.mogel » Wed Feb 07, 2007 3:59 pm

thought I 'd take a look but you Pic site has dumped you Pics! the file doesn't
seem to exist

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Help Contacting Sean the Speedo King

Post by Ron K. » Wed Mar 21, 2007 4:13 pm

I have tried emailing Sean thru the G and thru his website about 5 times and have never received a response.

Does anyone know how to contact him?

Thanks!


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