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- From: milo@dorm.rutgers.edu (James R. Mielo)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.vw
- Subject: Re: Dynamat
- Date: 20 Nov 1992 19:07:14 -0600
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- In message <921120.142425.amiller@almaden.ibm.com> Alex Miller writes:
-
- > How much dynamat in total did you use?
- > I'll be applying this to a 1983 Rabbit GTI.
- I've gone through 15 sqft plus I have another 15 sqft I just bough tthat
- I'm going to put in. The rabbit has smaller doors, etc . So, you may just need
- 15 sq ft . Also, the stuff is heavy. So, I don't think I want to put too much
- more in my car. If you can, find an inside contact who can get the stuff at
- cost. The markup is incredible. My brother works at a stereo store and got me
- the 15 sqft for $30 and that was with some profit for the store.
-
- > The limited DYNAMAT instructions I've seen say you have to clean
- > the receiving surface completely. Do I really have to scrub and
- > de-grease de-wax everything?
-
- I just washed the panels with a rag and some water a few times( washing out the
- rag as I went). The stuff sticks well and the heat turns it into a very sticky
- goo ( like gum ) that really molds the mat to the shape of the door
- I tacked some to parts of the car that were covered with the anti rust wax
- coating in the doors and it still hasn't come off. The real parts to worry about
- would be the roof where if it gave way you might run into problems. I would
- really clean that well. The stuff is heavy and gravity takes a toll on it. I put
- it on the hatch cover( some I had left over) and it's just peeling up on the
- ends and I didn't preclean the surface. It didn't fall off. It's been like that
- for 2 months. So it'll stcik well even on a non clean surface
-
- I almost forgot. One time I did drop some in the dirt. The dirt just binds to
- the adhesive. I cleaned it off and hit it with some heat. It became tacky enough
- to rebond to doors and stuff.
- >
- > Also, have you seen any mailorder places selling the aluminium
- > backed DYNAMAT. I thought I could put this under the hood - where
- > some cars have a noise shield of some kind.
- I haven't seen this yet but it sounds interesting. If you find some and
- try it could you email me the results?
-
- >
- > > Warning on install, heat the mat up well. I put the stuff up in the
- > > summer and the adhesive stuck well by itself without heating. Now with the
- > > winter, some of the sheets are pealing off. I recomend a heat paint
- > > stripper. The electrical one by black & decker speeded things up for me.
- >
- > How about just a 1500w hair dryer. Will it just take longer than
- > a heat-gun or will it not work as well.
- should work fine. I used the heat gun because I was doing large spaces.
- In the doors, I tried to use as large of a single continuos sheet as
- possible. Even with the heat gun, it took some time to get the stuff hot ( this
- was in the middle of the summer too ) Once you get it hot it molds really well
- and really speeds thing up.
- What I did was 1st warm the sheet briefly and then tack it on the panel and
- heat it really well. If you can, stick it over a heating vent for a little while
- until it gets tachy. I learned this one night over the summer when I left some
- sheet in the car. The stuff was really easy to work with compared to the day
- before.
- Good Luck. If you have any questions or find out more info about that
- aluminium foiled dynamat just email me.
-
-
- from James Mielo
- Rutgers College of Pharmacy '94
- at milo@dorm.rutgers.edu
-
-
- I pilot a now broke GTi
- which the dealer should be fixing as we speak
- Always interested in hearing about any mods for GTi's or any new ideas for
- stereo stuff
-
-