Glove box tray flocking
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Burning Brakes
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St. Jude Donor '19-'20-'21-'22
Glove box tray flocking
I'm wondering how difficult it is to remove the center glove box tray. I'm thinking of trying one of those "re-flocking" kits to clean it up along with the removable jack compartment tray.
Has anyone done this?
Flock-It! Kits
The results on the website look pretty good
Has anyone done this?
Flock-It! Kits
The results on the website look pretty good
Last edited by fastimes; Mar 30, 2019 at 04:00 PM.
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Removing the tray is fairly straight forward but you need to remove the entire 3-door lid / hinge surround to get at it, then the cardboard tray is more or less sitting there under it.
I've done flocking on wooden boxes and it's pretty straight forward on a clean surface, not sure how it would work trying to re-do an existing surface. Repro cardboard boxes are available at a semi-reasonable cost.
M
I've done flocking on wooden boxes and it's pretty straight forward on a clean surface, not sure how it would work trying to re-do an existing surface. Repro cardboard boxes are available at a semi-reasonable cost.
M
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Burning Brakes
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I thought about that. There is original flocking remaining on both of my trays. The trays are structurally in good shape, but the flocking is scraped up from use.
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If you were to take some 1xx-2xx sandpaper and lightly even out the surface it would probably work out ok.
Either that of give them a dry coat of flat/semi black paint to even out marks and no one would likely ever notice, when their in there looking that close their rear end would be in a perfect orientation for a size 12 boot
M
Either that of give them a dry coat of flat/semi black paint to even out marks and no one would likely ever notice, when their in there looking that close their rear end would be in a perfect orientation for a size 12 boot
M
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Thanks guys! I know it would be easier to just buy the aftermarket replacements, but these are in solid shape and have that '71 date stamp (my 72 was built in Oct 71), so I figured I'd try and pretty these up. Mooser, you're 100% right! Nobody will ever see inside there but me, but I have a touch of OCD and let little things like that bug me.
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Thanks guys! I know it would be easier to just buy the aftermarket replacements, but these are in solid shape and have that '71 date stamp (my 72 was built in Oct 71), so I figured I'd try and pretty these up. Mooser, you're 100% right! Nobody will ever see inside there but me, but I have a touch of OCD and let little things like that bug me.
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Fastimes, I agree with you, I would rather have a ratty original then a nice repro in most cases. My center storage compartment is in excellent shape and with a little paint it looks brand new.
The tray over the jack on the other hand had some ratty edges to it. These are nothing more then cardboard so I took some Elmers glue and separated some cardboard sections and repaired, reinforced it and repainted the tray. It came out nice and its still original.
Good luck with it..Ike .
The tray over the jack on the other hand had some ratty edges to it. These are nothing more then cardboard so I took some Elmers glue and separated some cardboard sections and repaired, reinforced it and repainted the tray. It came out nice and its still original.
Good luck with it..Ike .
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I finished my 77's tray by cutting and gluing in a dark gray felt. into it. Turned out good, with the additional advantage of muffling/preventing the rattling noises that came whenever I put some small hard object in it and it would bounce around.